The most obvious way to use Microsoft SQL Server is to just install it on your computer. But doing so uses resources on your current computer and it becomes something that is part of your normal OS. I was looking for a way to run SQL server in a more isolated mode where I can turn it on and off with...

Python is an excellent language to create scripts that perform utility tasks, but to add flexibility to any script it needs to accept parameters. Getting parameters is easy enough, using sys.argv as illustrated in the example below.

import sys

# Ensure there are at least 3 arguments, of course...

I'm not a big traveller, but recent circumstances had me moving around, and I had need to bring my tech with me. I don't often work with my laptop alone, I like to have an external display and usually have my laptop positioned to the side, which often needs me to have an external keyboard. My prefer...

In my adventures delving into Flutter for the Web, I came across an odd situation regarding images.

Typically, you would store your images in an "assets" folder, and within this folder an "images" folder. In order to use the images in your Flutter app, you would add this directory to your pubspec...

Flutter's built in Image widget is great, but there will be times when you need to pull images from the network, and will need to do that often. Doing many repeat queries for the same images can be a drain on network resources. In order to alleviate this potential issue, we can adopt a mechanism use...

In this article, I'll be talking about how to use a custom icon for your PowerShell GUI.

By default, running your PowerShell script that shows a WPF UI, the titlebar of your app will use a default PowerShell Icon, like the one shown below.

Thankfully you can change this, using some simple code...

In this tutorial I show how to setup events for Radio Buttons for a WPF GUI, and I also show how you can enable/disable other controls using the radio buttons as toggles.

The first thing we need is a WPF form to play around with. Let's create the following:

You can see this simple form is just...

I made a tutorial on how to use Images in a Flutter app. It's a pretty basic thing to do, but still worth understating. I show how to use a local image and a network one.

I recently had a need to make a simple application that created a series of folders, which normally isn't hard, but I had one requirement, which was to make the folder's create and modification dates specific.

So, how to create the folders. In python, it's simple enough to just use the os library'...

In my recent adventures in PowerShell scripting, I needed to create a GUI for my large script. This was inevitable, since my console input prompts started to become extensive and unwieldy. In my course of GUI development I found Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to be a good way to build a UI wi...