Nest recently released a new update to the software of the thermostat device (as well as their corresponding web and mobile applications). Some of the details may be found on their blog. A few of the new features include an historical view of the heating/cooling usage: On Friday, April 6th for example, you can see [...]

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I had moved my mouse over an image on a local bank’s web site, and was surprised to see the name of the file pop-up. The reason is that their web developer apparently doesn’t understand the meaning or intention behind the alt or title attribute of an HTML element. Not that it isn’t handy to [...]

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Or not really. I joined SuperUser.com last year to ask one question that was unresolved at work. It has been my first and only question. I find it funny that this yet unanswered question has given me a gold badge. I apparently am not the only person who needed help with this issue. Now, if [...]

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If you’re using SQL Server Compact Editition version 4 or higher, there’s finally a decent and efficient way to do data paging: var streets = db.Query<StreetName>(@"SELECT * FROM StreetNames ORDER BY Id OFFSET @offset ROWS FETCH NEXT @rows ROWS ONLY", new { offset = group * GroupSize, rows = GroupSize }); The code above uses [...]

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I didn’t know it was this simple, and am posting this information on my blog so I find it in the future, but hopefully this will help someone else! I’ve created a number of batch files over the years which routinely copy files from one location to another, usually as part of a backup strategy. [...]

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