Ok, so this is not life changing. But if you are having trouble getting scripted FTP routines to work, this might just help.
We have a number of data publishing routines that require us to move files via FTP. In the past we have had issues with timeouts and disconnects and have struggled with methods [...]
A quick tip on scripting FTP commands
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Programming
Doing it Old School - A character based status spinner
July 6th, 2007 · No Comments
Back in the day when you were running something in DOS that took a long time to run you’d sometimes see a “spinner” display on the command line - similar to what many AJAX-y websites do now when something is loading.
As many readers know, I do a lot of work in the Windows Command [...]
Tags: Programming
More Windows Command Line Goodness
June 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
As I’ve written before, at home I use OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux for 99% of the stuff I do. I’ve also written about how to add some Unix-y stuff to the Windows command line using doskey and an alias file.
Well, add another alias to the fire:
up = systeminfo | findstr /C:”System Up Time”
This [...]
Tags: The Windows Command Line
More Windows XP Command Shell Goodies - the SET command
April 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments
I know, I know, Vista is out and is all the rage. But it will be some time before most of us see it on our work desktops. So here’s a little bit of information on a very useful command for batch files, the SET command. In my shortcuts and some of my batch [...]
Tags: Programming
Big Contacts
February 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
As I wrote a while back, I have been using the various Google apps for keeping organized, and they work very well. But I’ve missed features that are in Outlook (at work) and Entourage (at home). Among those missing features are those that would give me the ability to use GMail as a contact manager [...]
Tags: General
