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Windows 10 video playback broken after the Anniversary update - solution

Aug 16, 2016 1 min read how-to

Sometime last year I got frustrated by my system’s apparent inability to play web videos. Back then, it had turned out to be my fault (no surprise there) – I hadn’t realized

csv-to-sqlite - copying from CSV files to a SQLite database

May 4, 2016 2 min read tools

csv-to-sqlite is a command line tool that **takes CSV files and dumps their contents into a SQLite database**. The basic gist: for each file, the script creates a database table with the same name, tries to guess the data type, then copies all the data into the database.

WinPython doesn't start?

Nov 5, 2014 1 min read python

I ran across PyBrain [pybrain.org], a “modular machine learning library for Python.” It needs the whole Scientific Python stack and since setting it up manually seemed like a pain, I decided to

Migrating from Shelfari to Goodreads with OpenRefine

Oct 26, 2014 5 min read how-to

It seems that most of my friends are on (or have moved to) Goodreads. I like it a lot less than Shelfari, but I’m starting to think I’ll have to switch

How to create a WCF web service from a WSDL

May 19, 2014 4 min read how-to

This wasn’t the first time I was tasked with creating a mock web service based on a WSDL file. I’ve tried multiple approaches, but most of them weren’t exactly what