19 Feb 2009
I seem to be doing rather a lot with NoteTab at the moment and again I thought I’d share something useful I scripted. This time around, it’s relating to date/time and days of the week.
Read More19 Feb 2009
Twitter seems to have become really big in the UK all of a sudden. Stephen Fry has been leading the way for some time, but lately there have been a whole slew of celebrities tweeting away raising the awareness and popularity of the system.
Read More17 Feb 2009
In my latest foray into NoteTab arithmetic I came across a curious fact around performing arithmetic calculations on a variable containing text. Whilst in purely mathematical terms an arithmetic operation on something that has a numeric value is a bit nonsensical, but NoteTab is a text editor…
Read More15 Feb 2009
I’ve been working on something to help me with some logging activity in NoteTab and I’ll be posting a variety of useful bits and pieces from this in both this micro blog (FlagIT) and my main blog (RebootIT). As part of this I was looking at producing some date related clips which necessitated looking at some mathematical clips and notably one to determine if a number is an Integer. NoteTab is a text editor and numeric manipulations are definitely not its forte, so I needed to produce a clip function to do this.
Read More11 Feb 2009
I’m really enjoying the flexibility that Microsoft Live Mesh is giving me. It lets me synchronise bits and pieces between various computers and means that I can have quick and easy access to files on my home computer(s), work computer, my Windows mobile phone and even on a computer used by my sports club. It’s a bit like offline files but the Internet is your network and therefore it’s quite a bit slower to synchronise than if you’re on an office LAN for example.
Read More02 Feb 2009
Quite often when working on a file I want to clone it as a backup or to work on another copy to try something out. I was doing this so often and being such a lazy coder I whipped up a quick NoteTab clip to make it even easier. Run it with the file you want to duplicate open in NoteTab and it will create a duplicate in a new tab and give it the focus.
Read More01 Feb 2009
A little while ago I was asked by one of our finance team to see if I could help reduce the workload required in maintaining a reporting Excel spreadsheet. Along with some very specific automation amendments to the spreadsheet I also created something quite generic to allow a macro to be run against multiple worksheets in an Excel workbook.
Read More01 Feb 2009
NoteTab clipping uses the clip wizard functionality to produce sophisticated input dialog windows to obtain information from the user. There is however a strange view produced when looking at a single check box. The clip code shown below shows the various pieces of clip code used and below that are the discussions of the approach and options along with the screen shots of what the clip wizard produces.
Read More31 Jan 2009
Sometimes when testing network connectivity to a server on the local LAN or a web site I use the ubiquitous PING command to do the job. If I need to do it repeatedly I tend to write a quick DOS batch file (a text based script with a file extension of BAT or CMD).
Read More31 Jan 2009
Like almost everyone else with an Internet connection on the western part of our planet I use Google a lot. Today though they seem to be having problems. Everything I’m searching for seems to have an associated warning - this site may harm your computer.
Read More