VB.Net Markup for your TiddlyWiki (and almost any other language!)
Need to add a language to the Highlight.js plugin on your tiddlywiki? Here’s how… Continue Reading
Power User
Tips, tricks and workarounds to make life easier and you more productive
Bash terminal setup (use, aliases and functions)
The bash terminal in linux (personally I’m using Ubuntu) is something that I’m falling in love with more and more over time, initially it was odd to have to type commands into a black box on the side of the… Continue Reading
New Ubuntu virtual machine
Virtual machines are awesome, you can create and destroy entire pc setups, clone them, take snapshots, install software in a sandbox, all sorts of things. In learning python in a linux environment getting some VM software was a brilliant way… Continue Reading
Run VBScript from Notepad++
Notepad++ is brilliant in its infinite capacity for customisation, I recently found out that it can be taught to run VBScript files straight from the editor via keyboard shortcut – no more saving, navigating to the folder to run the… Continue Reading
Copying files with VBScript
Copying files from one place to another can be a pain when it needs to be done repeatedly, for example when a series of output files like letters or grabbing the latest test results, especially if you’ve got to fish… Continue Reading
Script files in Windows (Batch, VBScript and PowerShell)
Script files are great, they enable you to run bespoke code on a machine to achieve all kinds of things that would be difficult or time consuming to do otherwise without needing a full coding environment to create and without… Continue Reading
Quickly Making Folders with Batch Files
Batch files can be great for running small sections of code against the operating system and this is a lovely little tip on how to make a reasonably complex folder structure without all of the usual clicking around all over… Continue Reading
Custom run commands
As I mentioned in another post on keyboard shortcuts the windows run command can be summoned with Ctrl + R and can be really useful for opening applications easily (for a few examples). For the shortcuts listed that’s great but… Continue Reading
Keyboard shorcuts FTW
Using keyboard shortcuts can often be much quicker than finding the right menu option to do things and having just a few shortcuts under your belt can speed up your navigation of windows and applications massively (as well as making… Continue Reading
What comes after Z?
In trying to keep organised with my files and folders I’ve often used naming conventions so that I can sort items in a way that makes it easy to find things. For folders that I use regularly I’d prefix with… Continue Reading