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Using Powershell to manipulate CPU Affinity and Priority to optimize applications

By aJamDonut On March 8, 2013 · Add Comment
Introduction I learnt Powershell a year or two back in a Wintel role I had, it’s a great tool for manipulating the operating system, remote systems and so much more. This little sprinkle I’ve used and expanded upon for years. It’s a desktop script which allows me to control and manipulate applications use of the [...]
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Playing with Encoding. Decimal, Hex and Binary in Javascript Updated!

By aJamDonut On January 27, 2013 · 4 Comments
Introduction Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about data on the lower-level of the stack, this is the area where data stops being simple strings and starts looking more like random numbers, *e.g. (59:6f:75:20:63:72:61:63:6b:65:64:20:74:68:65:20:63:6f:64:65:21) I’ve been wondering a lot about this data, because I do a lot of server communication with my applications, knowing encoding should come [...]
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Teaching yourself online – Pt. 2 Why you shouldn’t follow tutorials

By aJamDonut On January 19, 2013 · Add Comment
Introduction As a follow up to my previous post “Teaching yourself online – Pt. 1 Starting from the beginning” I want to give my opinion on why Tutorials online can be bad but how you can still use them to enable the self-teaching process. Why are they bad? Many new developers have been tasked with [...]
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Is IE9 on XBox 360 any good? Does HTML5 run?

By aJamDonut On October 23, 2012 · Add Comment
Introduction Today I received the official email from Microsoft telling me the System update for my XBox 360 was available today. I checked the contents quickly, in hopes this was the release of IE9 for XBox… It was. Why was I so excited? Most developers hate IE, and with good reason. I have spent the [...]
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Web 3.0 a HTML 5 Starter Pack – A newbies resource

By aJamDonut On October 21, 2012 · Add Comment
Introduction I will be updating this web page regularly, if you have any suggestions for content to be added, please comment below! As most web developers and designers know, HTML5 is a new technology which is emerging from a need for new standards on the WWW, to enable web applications which look, feel, act and [...]
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Teaching yourself online – Pt. 1 Starting from the beginning

By aJamDonut On October 20, 2012 · Add Comment
Introduction I strictly said in my first blog post that this website is not for tutorials, do not expect simple steps in this post. The following is what I believe is one aspect and method of self teaching to progress your skills in any area, using the internet to enable the learning process. For the [...]
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return $Internet->Blogs->aJamDonut();

By aJamDonut On October 20, 2012 · Add Comment
The title says it all. I’m launching a blog on the internet, a way of communicating my thoughts, opinions and hobby of tech! Why? When one reflects on many aspects of a topic, subject, project or new technology, many conclusions can be drawn… The problem is explaining these conclusions in person, just keeping the listeners [...]
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