31 Jan 2019
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Tags:
MySQL,
SQL
The MySQL CLI client tools such as mysql and mysqldump have the ability to read options from a file. This serves as an alternative to supplying each required option as a command line argument. This is particularly useful when automating MySQL tasks, it saves having to devise your own config...
30 Dec 2018
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Github
Occasionally I want to check the status of all the open issues on GitHub to
which I’ve contributed or been mentioned by others. I keep forgetting the
query string syntax to do so, hence why I’m documenting it here:
18 Nov 2018
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Tags:
IRC,
WeeChat,
BridgeBot
In order for a community (such as the participants of an open source project) to collaborate online in real-time, a chat platform is required. Some communities have adopted multiple platforms such as IRC, Slack and Discord. Consequently a means of bridging these platforms together is required so that the users...
07 Oct 2018
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Windows,
PowerShell
This post demonstrates some techniques for obtaining Windows version information along with advice on what to avoid. For older Windows operating systems (XP/2003 to 8.1/2012 R2) acquiring the version number was a somewhat simple endeavour. Starting with Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, releases consist of two parts, a version...
23 Sep 2018
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PowerShell
While developing a PowerShell Core script I required a means of obtaining the
username of the account under which it was run. Since the script was intended to
be used on both Windows and GNU/Linux I sought a technique that would work on
both platforms.
