Fixing a bouncy deck stair, and adding fluted risers
This is our deck stairs (seen from the view of our cat looking at her boyfriend sitting on the top step.) There’s a few things we didn’t like abou...
From the desk of Herrick Spencer
Honey Do: Garage Door Opener x 2
This post is part of the “Honey Do List” series. We bought a house on 3/1/2014, and I started a list of things that I’d like to be completed; both fix-it type and desired projects. You can see the ...
Honey Do: Punch the Fatty. (Hang 'em High)
This post is part of the Honey Do List series. We bought a house on 3/1/2014, and I started a list of things that I’d like to be completed; both fix-it type and desired projects. You can see the fu...
Honey Do Brick Patio Leveling
This post is part of the [“Honey Do List”](/posts/new-house-new-honey-do-list/) series. We bought a house on 3/1/2014, and I started a list of things that I’d like to be completed; both fix-it type...
New House.. New ‘Honey Do’ List
My wife and I recently purchased a new house… the first for either of us. We are super excited, and have many plans to alter the inside and out to ‘make it our own’. I have started a ‘Honey Do List...
TOW – PowerShell Shortcuts and Aliases
I love scripting, Perl, PowerShell, SQL, whatever is most convenient to get the job done with minimal effort… and allow me to record my script to use when the issue presents itself in the future. O...
TOW - OneNote... Use it.
There were two emails in the last two weeks that constituted good TOWs. I encourage more people to submit a TOW, just start it with the image above and use “TOW – [my subject]” to start the subjec...
Column Selection in Visual Studio
There hasn’t been a TOW in a while… due to vacations and frankly, no real good tips have been submitted! (or oozed out of the inky darkness that is my grey matter…) Therefore, I’m thankful to Euse...
Visual Studio – Reference hopping, code snippets, and other handy shortcuts
Again, I’m posting another Visual Studio tip… this one is something I bet you have had experience with one or the other… Reference hopping When first using VS2010, I was glad to see that when I...
TOW - Stop using your mouse…
I’ve always liked my keyboard… as a kid, I had horrible handwriting, and got admonished by teachers for it. (note: going to Architecture school cured that, architectural lettering is very handy to ...