Sunday 25 October 2015

Rotate a Scanned Document in Adobe

Control-Shift-Plus     Rotate Clockwise
Control-Shift-Minus Rotate Anti-Clockwise

Don't forget to re-save the document if appropriate!

Sunday 11 October 2015

tt2 files in Root

Downloading a new Microsoft Office could create some tt2 files in your root directory. These are created by the Office installer and can be deleted manually. They should be cleaned up on reboot.

Saturday 10 October 2015

RAID Logs for Software Projects - How to Practically Use Them

RAID logs are a useful tool in complex projects.  They should be kept regularly updated after team meetings.

  • Risk - records negative impact events, and plan to manage them. 
  • Assumptions - what you assume is in place for your project to be a success.  This warrants a description of the assumption, and rationale for making the assumption. Is the assumption based on prior experience or other evidence. Are there any validating actions to determine if the assumptions are valid or remain valid throughout the project. At what stage is that validation required or feasible to execute. The impact if the assumption is incorrect is also important to understand.
  • Issues -  a problem in your project that needs managing - need to record description, impact, and actions. Issues should have an owner and current status.
  • Dependencies - either your project depends on those, or others depend on you. Log who you are dependent on, what they need to deliver and when

Monday 5 October 2015

Know your PowerShell

PowerShell was introduced in 2007 as a scripting language for Windows administrators. It was invented by Jeffrey Snover. To PowerShell is to know the lingo of PowerShell. Start your journey here!

There are a few useful guides:

Getting Started with PowerShell by Michael Shepherd (August 2015) from Packt Publishing is a good starter guide.

Also check out the following blogs:

PowerShell Blog (part of Server and Tools blogs)

And here are a few useful commands:

get-verb               - displays list of verbs (commands)
get-verb | more    - displays verbs with pagination
get-date
get-childitem       - does a directory listing. dir is aliased to get-childitem
get-help               - gets help on a specific verb

Commands are also known as cmdlets in PowerShell lingo.