Streaming Twitter with C#

In this article I will walk through the steps required to create a C# console application that prints a Twitter stream to the console using TweetInvi library The example was built using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and .NET Framework 4.6. Step 1 Start Visual Studio and create a new console application, I’ve called mine […]

C# Utility to emulate the XPath 3 function path()

I recently needed to examine a number of XML files and print out the element names that contained text greater than X number of characters. In addition I also need to print the location of that element within the XML document. i.e. given the following document …if I was interested in book titles that had […]

Naming Windows .bat files

Whilst setting up a Elixir development environment I ran into a interesting problem. I created a new .bat file in Windows 10 to start up Elixir’s Interactive Shell. The command I wanted to run was: iex –werl So I created a new Windows .bat file called iex.bat which contained this single command. Unfortunately when I double […]

You don’t have to suck at Excel

Watching Joel Spolsky’s masterful presentation You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky will make you better at using Excel. You don’t have to watch it all , watch the first 5 minutes about how to correctly paste in Excel will improve your productivity whilst reducing your #REF! error stress levels and will put you head and shoulders above […]