Using Process Monitor and other tools to fix a broken installation.
Today the stars were aligned and my VMWare installation decided to stop working. It's time for an upgrade, anyways.
Oh, that makes sense. So lets uninstall the old version.
Can't install the new, can't uninstall the old. Time for some hackery!
Creating a Google Page Rank Finder in Javascript
An interesting technology are Google Page Rank Finders. What they do is discover which result and page number a website is in Google's search results for a given term.
I thought an interesting implementation would be a completely client side one written in Javascript using Google's search API. To spoil the ending, after creating this I discovered the API only allows 8 results per page and 8 pages, making this useless if the site is beyond the 64th result, but the API is interesting and powerful regardless.
The finished version can be found at pagerank.red-stars.net with the complete Javascript.
System.Drawing.Drawing2D.PathPointType defined.
I had a project which involved raw access to the data stored inside of a System.Drawing.Drawing2D.GraphicsPath and found that the MSDN Document for PathPointType was rather lacking, but it's not too complex.
Automated Local Backup of a Remote MySQL Database
I always like to take backing up into my own hands, and a database is potentially the most important thing on your server next to only the code driving it all, which in nature typically has a local copy anyways.