2019 – RobotJlion

December 9, 2019January 11, 2020 by jlion

Service Trace Viewer

Recently I had to do some debugging of a WCF service. I used trace logs for this, but the output format of the tracelogs is a wall-of-text xml file.

Luckily, Microsoft has created a viewer that facilities working with these …

Interacting with the Atlassian JIRA REST API

June 6, 2019

Automatically posting messages to slack

September 22, 2018

December 8, 2019January 13, 2020 by jlion

HTML5 Maze Generator

Over Thanksgiving I decided to convert an old C# maze generator that I’d created a few years ago to HTML5.

The results can be viewed here:
http://robot.jlion.com/maze

I decided to see if I could create an isometric maze. I’m …

October 24, 2019January 19, 2020 by jlion

HTML5 and transparency

As an experiment I decided to create a couple of gears that would appear as an overlay on a web page.

My thinking was that I might use HTML5 to create UI controls that could be …

October 22, 2019February 1, 2020 by jlion

Certifications

Recently I’ve completed the Microsoft 70-761 and 70-762 certifications. I’ve been using SQL Server for years now, since version 6.0, and I’ve seen it evolve a lot.

There’s a lot of debate about the value of certifications. Forums abound with …

Types of programming tasks

July 22, 2017

October 22, 2019February 1, 2020 by jlion

SOLR open source search

I’m setting up a SOLR environment. Here are the steps I’m taking to do this.

Set up environment

I’m using Oracle VirtualBox and Windows 7 pro, with a 60GB virtual hard drive and 4gb of memory. I’m using Chrome as …

September 30, 2019January 17, 2020 by jlion

One of the tasks I’ve set for myself this month is to document an application that is complex and undocumented. Not only is there no technical documentation for this application, but the specifications and requirements that determine whether …

Certifications

October 22, 2019

Quest for MCSE

March 25, 2019

Microsoft Dynamics

August 4, 2017

Reflection Notes

July 29, 2017

Types of programming tasks

July 22, 2017

September 11, 2019January 13, 2020 by jlion

Javascript calendars…

Recently I wanted a countdown calendar to more visibly track progress toward a goal a few years away.

I created this calendar page where you can specify the number of days into the future you would like calendars for, and …

Thermometer Chart Update

May 21, 2020

HTML5 Clipping

July 23, 2017

Gantt Chart

August 6, 2016

Javascript, jqGrid and XML

July 17, 2016

August 25, 2019February 1, 2020 by jlion

Excel VBA function for writing to a file

Every so often I work on a project that involves extracting data from excel where it’s easier just to code the extraction up as a macro. For these projects, these two functions serve me well by enabling my macros to …