Lance Robinson

Making online conversations and relationships is very crucial to today's fast-moving world. Social Media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,…

Today I saw this on Twitter from Julie Blender (@#juneb\get\help): > Need to reference the "ProgramFiles(x86)" environment variable in #PowerShell? Use…

This post is the seventh in a, containing examples of SharePoint WebParts that anybody can build all by themselves. To read all posts in this series, or…

NetCmdlet’s get-time cmdlet uses the Internet TIME protocol to query Internet time server’s for the current time. It can also be used to sync the time on…

!Update: Here is how I did it, with the published version of PowerShell Server: https://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/archive/2008/12/22/how-to-execute-sql-powe…

On last week’s PowerScripting Podcast, Jonathan Walz and Hal Rottenberg interview /n software’s Eric Madariaga about NetCmdlets and (PowerShellASP).

Every so often I get a question from someone who wants to transfer files between two FTP servers. In order to do so, they usually have to connect to…

When you get an email from a yahoo group list, for example, it might say it was sent from yourgroup@yahoogroups.com on behalf of the person who actually…

One of the most common questions I get about FTP has to do with error 425, "Can't open data connection." This is indeed a protocol level error that is…

While trying out the /n software IP\Works! 3-D Secure MPI C++ Edition (for implementing Verified By Visa, MasterCard SecureCode, or JCB J/Secure) I needed…

Last winter, Ben Pearce put together a little PowerShell Cheat Sheet. I printed it out and I keep it handy at my desk. It occurred to me that a cheat…

doesn't have a long list of Active Directory cmdlets for PowerShell. Instead, it has 2. And they aren't AD specific - they just implement the LDAP…

To complement the previous tutorials I've posted about how to add credit cards to your website or desktop applications, I will be posting a howto for how…

Randy Charles Morin doesn't know why anyone would want to use RSS to transmit OFX data. I find his confusion odd:

You cannot use get-credential without some type of prompt (although you can do it without the pop-up dialog), however you can save your securestring…

I'm trying to run nunit tests of a 32-bit assembly on a 64-bit machine. When I load the assembly (compiled with VS target platform set to x86) into nunit,…

Windows PowerShell Scripting Sweepstakes. I think its kinda funny, though, that the first prize teaser in the description of the contest is two…

Sam Ruby points to this demonstration of "situational mashups" using IBM's DB2 v9. DB2 v9, aka "Viper", supports XPath and XQuery, and even Atom…

Here's a project for those of you who ~dislike functionality~ love iPods, but are cursed with PocketPC ownership. You can convert your Pocket PC into an…

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FTPS over a NAT Firewall is a problem, but there are solutions. First, an explanation of the problem: The reason why FTPS (and even FTP without SSL) is a…

Using LDAP to authenticate users is common, fast, and easy way to do. A while back I wrote a using the IP\Works! LDAP component. This particular article…

Last month I mentioned winsock error 10053, "Software caused connection abort" (basically, the error means that something on the localhost caused the…

Nick Bradbury evangelizes attention metadata. is right, companies sure as hell aren't going to want to give attention data away because its too valuable.…

You can interact with Asterisk over TCP and receive PBX event notifications. The Asterisk Manager API, while sparsely documented at voip-info.org is easy…