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Today I made an attempt to move my WhatsApp messages from WM10 to an Android Phone. If the journey is TL;DR; jump to the end of this blogpost for a download link and some remarks on limitations. In it’s greater … Continue reading →

Today my computer decided to start a boot loop where it claimed that WdFilter.sys was missing or damaged. The file looked ok when inspected from the command prompt option of the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE). However in this same environment … Continue reading →

Due to some interaction with a Swagger related project and a simple yet fast and easy to use C# JSON library SimpleJSON I used in the code generated by my swagger parser and code generator, I stumbled upon some issues … Continue reading →

This week I had that dreaded message for the second time. Probably due to modern GB games that patch themselves regularly and entering the Windows Insider program (so a new Windows 10 version every now and then). The last time … Continue reading →

Some weeks ago, the Denver AC-5000W action camera’s where for sale for around € 50. So a lot cheaper than a GoPro and thus nice for testing. As it comes with a underwater housing up capable of withstanding water pressure … Continue reading →

As an old fashioned programmer I grew up with debugging methods like post-mortem traces and trace statements. Today however we have and are used to GUI’s for debugging and can single step code or even re-compile code and retry the … Continue reading →

This post is about how to solve a problem that bugged me for while.  When developing Portlets for Liferay one always wonders what exact version is actually running on the various servers of the development chain (local/test/integration/production) and what sources … Continue reading →

After doing the usual web search with Google and Bing I found only sites claiming doing a scan with Microsoft Security Essentials of a file or directory from the command-line was not possible. Most sites just say it’s possible to … Continue reading →

Today I had the need to address a C# Component I wrote and that is part of a larger C# UserControl by name (so by a String). I know there are other ways to address components but for some reason … Continue reading →

Ever wondered how to get rid of those pesky *.js.php files where you need PHP to write a single variable into a JScript? After a lot of searching I stumbled upon a nice solution (see http://feather.elektrum.org/book/src.html) that allows you to … Continue reading →