Recently I’ve been working with phantomjs in order to do some on-page control without wanting to use an actual browser (phantomjs is headless and requires no X server to be running). One of the first things I wanted to do was created custom modules so I could organise my code clearly. I found a surprising lack … Read More “phantomjs custom module – require and create” »

MySql in C# is rather painless using the MySQL Connector for .net, but one thing it is missing is a no-frills, no extra requirements, no pre-defined ERD return a row as an instance of a class function. Coming from a PHP background, I love the PDO function fetchObject(), it’s just right there and you get … Read More “C# MySqlDataReader – “one line” function to return a row as an instance of a class.” »

I love Cloudant, simple as, their implementation of CouchDB as a DDaaS (as opposed to DBaaS) has no real competitor – as CouchDB develop’s, that may, of course, become a problem as it gives dominance in a market, but for now, we’re good. One of their best features is the dbcopy command, this copies the … Read More “Cloudant’s Rather Awesome dbcopy for re-reducing the output of existing map/reduce data.” »

So often you find yourself needing a list of countries for use in your software and I keep having to re-use this code so here is a list of countries with their ISO codes in a variety of formats you can simply just use. # C# Dictionary ISO { countrycode, countryname } list new Dictionary<string, … Read More “Country/Currency List for C#, JSON, PHP and HTML select” »

Amazon’s EC2 platform has a very in-depth console which allows you to do a lot, but what if you want to automate some of the processes or handling servers? I’ve been working with EC2 a lot recently and automating server starting/stopping based on parameters of the system we use here at MediaSkunkworks and thought I’d … Read More “Using Amazon EC2 with C# .net” »