Reviews

Here I review tech stuff I find interesting.

20th Aug 2024
Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 Keyboard Review

Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 Keyboard Review

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...

20th Aug 2024
Pathing to Images in Flutter Web

Pathing to Images in Flutter Web

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...

14th Aug 2024

Cached Network Image

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...

4th Mar 2024
Custom Icon for PowerShell WPF App

Custom Icon for PowerShell WPF App

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.

PS_App_Icon_default

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

21st Feb 2024
Powershell: Radio Button Events

Powershell: Radio Button Events

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:

wpf_radio_events

You can see this simple form is just...

19th Feb 2024
Using Images in Flutter

Using Images in Flutter

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.

6th Feb 2024
Python: Creating Folders and Modifying their Dates

Python: Creating Folders and Modifying their Dates

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'...

5th Feb 2024
WPF Scrolling TextBox

WPF Scrolling TextBox

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...

31st Jan 2024
Fixing External Keyboards for Macs

Fixing External Keyboards for Macs

I recently decided to take the plunge and buy a new 14" M2 Macbook Pro. The driving force was to do more IOS development, which is a bit more challenging; if not impossible, on a Windows based computer. My normal setup is a laptop hooked up to a larger external display, with a mouse and keyboard (pr...

29th Aug 2023