TLDR: This post is about redirecting stdin, stdout and stderr in Visual Basic. There are links to the source down the bottom. So these things called pipes exist,

I thought I’d post up something about Graphviz, because if you haven’t used it, it really is a fantastically useful thing. Graphviz takes text descriptions of relationships between

“What is randomnoun?” is a question I get asked at least once a year, so here’s a quick list of things that the entity known as randomnoun definitely

I was looking at doing up a mobile app back in around February this year after getting a shiny new phone, and started writing up a disjointed screed

So from hardware failure back to software failure. Bitrot is defined in The Jargon File as bit·rot Pronunciation: /bɪt rɒt/ Noun [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the

Not long after the previous post, I got yet another error, this time on an NTFS partition. This required a slightly different sequence of steps, so thought I’d

So whilst writing up that previous blog post, I started getting I/O errors on one of my virtual machines. This tends to start happening more as we move

So I’m going to try to get something into the maven central repository. There’s a description on how to do this on the sonatype.org site, but it doesn’t

Right. I feel I’ve fallen behind my one-post-a-week plan, so might belt out some smaller posts, perhaps. Back when I was at university, any attempt to log onto

Hello. Here’s a link to ddclient.exe, a dynamic DNS client for Windows, to go with the dynamic DNS server that I’ve posted about as part of a 3-part