Category: Development
Netdocs - My Own .NET Static Site Generator
July 27, 2026 · in Development · 5 min read
Notice anything different?
Git - Delete Merged Branches
June 12, 2025 · in Development · 1 min read
I use git for source control when writing these posts. Eventually- my local editor ends up with 50 branches which have already been merged into origin/main, and I end up needing to manually go through and remove the old branches.
Gitea - Slow Dashboard
December 26, 2024 · in Development · 4 min read
For a few weeks now, I have noticed my Gitea instance takes nearly two minutes to load.
Parsing SCCM Collections
October 26, 2022 · in Development · 7 min read
This post details how to extract useful information from the SCCM Schedules format.
C# - Get Display Attribute Value from Enum
October 4, 2022 · in Development · 2 min read
Every now and then, I have a use case where decorating an Enum’s values with Attributes comes in handy. Things such as… Adding Display Names, Descriptions, etc.
TFS / Azure Devops - Semantic Versioning
July 14, 2022 · in Development · 2 min read
I publish nuget packages. Alot of nuget packages.
MicrosoftIdentityWebChallengeUserException
November 10, 2021 · in Development · 2 min read
An MsalUiRequiredException was thrown due to a challenge for the user. See https://aka.ms/ms-id-web/ca_inc
An anonymous request was received in between authentication handshake requests
February 5, 2021 · in Development · 1 min read
I was receiving this error while hosting a webapi project on .net 5, using kestrel.
Splunk - Adding TrendLine for Percent Change
March 11, 2020 · in Development · 1 min read
So- Just a quick example on how to execute a trendline for the percentage change on a chart.
Splunk – 8.0.1 Metrics vs Events Licensing Comparison - Updated with Metrics MK
February 11, 2020 · in Development · 9 min read
Note- this page is hidden from view due to inaccuracies discovered long after this article was published. The below method is flawed, and actually only records the first instance from each perfmon category collected.
Searching Splunk From Browser Bar
January 14, 2020 · in Development · 3 min read
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Splunk – 8.0.1 Metrics vs Events Licensing Comparison
January 7, 2020 · in Development · 5 min read
So- over a year back, when metrics was a new concept to Splunk, I ran a licensing and storage comparison HERE.
C# - Dynamically Invoking Method on RuntimeTypes
December 20, 2019 · in Development · 4 min read
I have an interesting project I set out to create today-
Unknown error (0x80005000) – Getting AD Group Members
November 7, 2019 · in Development · 2 min read
Earlier today, somebody asked me to help troubleshoot a piece of code which was randomly erroring out- with a very undescriptive exception, only containing Unknown error (0x80005000)
Office Links Broken
November 7, 2019 · in Development · 1 min read
Here is an unusual issue.
Visual Studio / Git - Moving commits to another branch via Cherry-Pick
October 29, 2019 · in Development · 1 min read
Ever have the problem where you were not paying attention, and you created a few commits on the MASTER branch, instead of a feature branch?
Splunk - 8.0 - Restrict SourceTypes for Roles
October 22, 2019 · in Development · 2 min read
Splunk - 8.0 Upgrade - SplunkWeb Not Running
October 22, 2019 · in Development · 2 min read
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WarBOT - Future
October 10, 2019 · in Development · 1 min read
c# - Paging Urls using abstraction and generics
October 8, 2019 · in Development · 4 min read
Despite the nasty sounding title, this post will demonstrate an easy method to abstract the paging of an applications URL.
c# – Logging Directly to Splunk
October 7, 2019 · in Development · 8 min read
This is a portion of my Logging libraries, to allow me to log data to Splunk using the HEC. The data being logged can either be a simple string, or a full-blown object. Code examples are below to also handle exporting Metrics to Splunk.
ServiceNow - Query Every Asset A user has ever been assigned to
October 3, 2019 · in Development · 2 min read
So, an interesting request came across my desk earlier today, to query every asset a user has ever been assigned.
SCOM - Locate Computers in Maintenance
October 1, 2019 · in Development · 1 min read
I ran into an issue today where a important production server was not being monitored. As well- when the user placed the object into maintenance mode, they did not include comments. Lastly- the UI does not show who performed the action by default without digging.
Splunk – RGB Value Based on Percentage - Part 2
September 30, 2019 · in Development · 2 min read
This is an updated version of Part 1 updated with feedback provided by this Reddit post.
Splunk - RGB Value Based on Percentage
April 8, 2019 · in Development · 1 min read
Splunk - 7.2 Metrics vs Events Licensing Comparison
October 19, 2018 · in Development · 4 min read
Collection Membership based on Folder Existing
February 3, 2015 · in Development · 1 min read
Here is an old example I created back in 2015, to populate a collection based on devices who have a folder present. As apart of the migration to this new blog- it has been reposted here.