• Tech
  • Travel
  • Guff
  • Creative
  • All Posts
profile picture

matt thornton

tech. travel. creative. guff.

  • © matt 2000-2025
  • About & Contact
    2025
      Installing Windows 11 in 2025
      Mar 1
      (Nintex) Workflows failed to run (after security patching) (again)
      Jan 29
    2024
      AI Test - defeat Excel / me
      Nov 5
      Stop using LLMs for generating content
      Oct 20
      AGC Conference 2024 - 12 months in AI
      Oct 12
      (Nintex) Workflows failed to run (after security patching)
      Sep 25
      Why we removed all LLM-generated content from cortex.gg
      Aug 7
    2023
      Blazordle - a Wordle solver (and some JetBrains AI Assistant)
      Dec 12
      Plausible proxy in Azure App Service
      Nov 27
      Resetting a Raspberry Pi root password
      Sep 25
      Building a website with AI - the state of ChatGPT
      Sep 3
      Coding with an AI Sidekick - How ChatGPT Facilitated the Creation of DipnDine.gg
      Sep 3
      Atomstack A5 Laser on macOS Catalina and LightBurn
      Aug 29
      Building a Webcam on a Raspberry Pi - the Code
      Jun 28
      Building a Webcam on a Raspberry Pi - Setting Up
      Jun 27
      Building a Webcam on a Raspberry Pi - Intro
      Jun 26
    2022
      Building a PiHole on a Raspberry Pi
      Nov 8
      Samsung M8 Smart Monitor review
      Oct 4
      Can AI ever be sentient? On LaMDA and the wider debate
      Jun 23
      Moving my Music library to a NAS - update
      Jun 15
      At last a macOS update I can get on board with
      Jun 10
      MySQL - get previous and next rows in one query
      Mar 23
      Hugo escape shortcodes for display
      Mar 10
      Bootstrap Style Tables in Hugo (without bootstrap...)
      Mar 10
      Migrating Wordpress comments to HashOver for Hugo
      Feb 23
      Deploying Hugo sites - rclone to the rescue?!
      Feb 7
      Updated Initial Thoughts on Hugo
      Feb 6
      Draytek vs Netgear Orbi for Mesh Wifi
      Jan 27
      Initial thoughts on Hugo over Wordpress
      Jan 20
      Migrating from Hugo to Wordpress
      Jan 20
      Blog update 2022: migrated to Hugo
      Jan 20
    2021
      SharePoint Word Automation: there is no word services application proxy configured for this site collection
      Dec 2
      My site was hacked. Sort of.
      Apr 14
      Exchange Online Powershell on macOS
      Mar 2
      I finally moved my Music library to a NAS
      Jan 29
      GoPro still has an issue with some SanDisk SD cards
      Jan 23
    2020
      VMWare Fusion / Big Sur / Ubuntu / Black screen
      Dec 5
      Obscure SharePoint errors #13653: DavWWWRoot is not accessible
      Nov 26
      Misc Ubuntu 20.04 on Hyper-V from macOS setup stuff
      Nov 18
      Eugh. Configuring Powershell for remote Exchange management
      May 19
      Basic web scraping with Python: Episode 3!
      Apr 13
      Nintex site workflow + lookup columns
      Mar 9
      ASP.NET Core OAuth Facebook cancel causes 500 fix
      Mar 4
    2019
      Visual Studio regex replace for 7 year old issue...
      Nov 13
      Bulk delete items from SharePoint Document Library with Powershell - with filters
      Jun 26
      Troubleshooting Word Automation Services in SharePoint
      Jun 19
      Basic web scraping - Part 2: thoughts on debugging and Python3
      May 13
      Sharepoint - Open .eml files in Outlook
      Jan 10
      Basic web scraping with a Raspberry Pi, Python and Requests
      Jan 6
    2018
      Use DISKPART to bring a disk online
      Nov 27
      Migrate VMWare Fusion virtual machines to VMWare ESXi
      Nov 27
      SQL Server - quickly delete all tables
      Oct 12
      Installing SharePoint in standalone / single server mode
      Oct 12
      Sharepoint 2010 - Access denied... even for farm admins
      Sep 14
      Sharepoint 2010 SP2 installation - variety of issues
      Sep 13
      Bulk delete items and folders from Sharepoint document library using Powershell
      Aug 10
      SSRS: the given path's format is not supported
      Mar 16
      SSRS + Visual Studio + SP Integrated Mode
      Mar 16
      Does SharePoint 2013 work on SQL Server 2016?
      Feb 23
      SharePoint trace service keeps getting disabled
      Feb 23
      SharePoint Search Service Application recovery + WCF Endpoint
      Jan 17
      Sharepoint solutions - stuck on retracting or deploying
      Jan 14
    2017
      HP-Setup wifi network on HP M377dw
      Dec 23
      Create SharePoint Content Organiser rules programmatically with lookup fields
      Dec 12
      SharePoint + Visual Studio - cannot rename Feature folder
      Dec 11
      MySQL on Raspberry Pi - allow connections from non-localhost
      Dec 6
      Recovering files from broken Raspberry Pi - Part 2
      Dec 5
      Recovering files from broken Raspberry Pi - Part 1
      Dec 5
      Chaining Powershell commands - now with email alerts
      Dec 5
      Quick tip: chaining powershell commands
      Nov 28
      SharePoint 2010 pain - splitting a large content database
      Nov 28
      Yes, more! Timer jobs not running!
      Nov 24
      SharePoint - Error encrypting or decrypting credentials
      Nov 24
      Setting content organiser settings programmatically
      Nov 24
      SharePoint site locked (read only)
      Nov 22
      psconfig v2v or b2b?
      Nov 21
      SharePoint passphrase recovery
      Nov 20
      MySQL table name case sensitivity
      Oct 1
      On Mono on a Raspberry Pi... vs Win10 IOT Core
      Sep 30
      .NET console app on Mono on Raspberry Pi writing to MySQL (compiled on a Mac)
      Sep 17
      .NET application output app.config settings at runtime nicely formatted
      Apr 25
      SharePoint 2010 Programmatically Create List from Custom List Template in C#
      Apr 12
    2016
      Sample Python code to query Wunderlist API
      Dec 30
      HTML5 input number and search
      Jun 15
      SQL Database login for x on x failed. Login failed for x. Event ID: 3351
      Feb 19
    2015
      This functionality is unavailable for fields not associated with a list
      Aug 21
      SharePoint Features + Renaming
      Aug 5
      Sharepoint 2010 + Internal Field Name Max Length
      Aug 4
      gnucash + mysql + OS X 10.10: getting it running
      Apr 7
    2014
      Two useful SharePoint Powershell links
      Aug 22
      Event ID: 1108 SQL Server Reporting Services cannot load the SQLPDW extension
      Feb 27
      SharePoint list views filtered by date AND time
      Jan 31
      Debugging SharePoint 2010
      Jan 14
    2013
      SharePoint 2010 workflow stuck on starting
      Oct 30
      SharePoint 2010 + SSRS Integrated mode + deploy + login prompt
      Oct 2
      Exception occured while connecting to WCF endpoint: An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party
      Jun 18
      SP2010 and Managed Metadata and &
      Apr 16
      SharePoint 2010 + DocumentSets + OfficialFile.asmx max file size
      Mar 7
      Current user is not a farm administrator - redux
      Feb 5
    2012
      The OLE DB provider Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0 for linked server (null) reported an error. Access denied.
      Nov 30
      Auto generate SQL audit tables and database triggers
      Nov 28
      SharePoint Designer 2010 - list/library There are no items to show in this view - ListData.svc woes
      Nov 8
      SharePoint 2010 - Managed Metadata - Required feature is not enabled for this column type
      Nov 6
      Some notes on VMWare Converter
      Oct 11
      My VMWare ESXi build - Part 2 - Building ESXi
      Oct 10
      My VMWare ESXi 5.1 build - Part 1 - The Hardware
      Oct 10
      SharePoint 2010 State Machine workflow delayActivity tip
      Oct 3
      SharePoint 2010 State Machine workflow onWorkflowItemChanged firing multiple times
      Sep 28
      Get SPUser from Person or Group field
      Sep 28
      SharePoint 2010 State Machine delay activity (and why it may not fire)
      Sep 23
      Activity onWorkflowItemChanged validation warning: The correlation token may be uninitialized
      Sep 23
      Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Invalid file name
      Aug 30
      Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: This functionality is unavailable for field collections not associated with a list.
      Aug 30
      SharePoint Event Receivers + Inherited Documents + ItemUpdating
      Jul 12
      SharePoint 2010 upgrade failure - Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products
      Jul 6
      Quick tip: Access Denied when editing navigation (areanavigationsettings.aspx) in MySites
      May 3
      Error activating features - key cannot be null - redux
      Mar 8
      SharePoint 2010 + Custom retention formula installation failure + current user is not a farm administrator
      Mar 6
      SharePoint 2010 + Search within document sets
      Mar 5
      SharePoint Event Receivers + ItemAdded + Null Columns fun
      Mar 2
      Web Service access + internal traffic + 407 Proxy Authentication Required
      Mar 2
      Creating SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Rules programmatically
      Feb 23
      Powershell tip - find all checked out files
      Feb 15
      Quick tip: SharePoint powershell - get items in a list based on custom columns and other hints
      Feb 14
      SSRS error: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object
      Feb 10
      SharePoint 2010 Foundation + SQL Server Reporting Services Integrated mode installation issues: Failed to establish connection with report server, 401 errors and more
      Feb 9
      The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component
      Jan 24
    2011
      Error formatting query, probably invalid parameters [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 22050)
      Dec 12
      Useful SharePoint script to restart SharePoint services and IIS
      Dec 2
      Configuring certificates and trust in SharePoint 2010 for accessing Exchange Web Services
      Nov 9
      SharePoint 2010: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
      Nov 7
      The field with Id {} defined in feature {} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite
      Nov 1
      Quick tip: SPListItem.CopyTo custom method
      Oct 28
      SharePoint 2010 + Document Sets + Custom Ribbon Buttons with Custom Code
      Oct 27
      SharePoint 2010 context menu item with custom code
      Sep 28
      More fun with deploying Document Sets via XML
      Sep 15
      Updating declarative XML content types
      Sep 15
      Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Invalid field name.
      Sep 12
      Provision Document Set + XMLDocuments and ???
      Sep 12
      the specified value for the locstringid parameter is outside the bounds of this enum
      Aug 9
      SharePoint 2010: Visual Webpart tutorial
      Aug 8
      SharePoint: Error occurred during deployment step activate features
      Aug 5
      Tip: Visual Studio + Batch replace GUIDs
      Aug 1
      Powershell tip for updating document sets
      Jul 20
      Exchange Web Services and reading an EmailMessage to memory
      Jul 1
      SharePoint 2010 + Kofax Express + Object reference not set to an instance of an object
      Jul 1
      Can't alter server principal ‘dbo'
      Jun 3
      SharePoint workflow + list item edit + value cannot be null
      May 26
      Tip: Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Object not set to an instance of an object
      May 6
      SharePoint 2010 + Associate workflow to Content Type in a feature
      May 5
      SharePoint + Visual Studio + Get Current User
      May 4
      Tip: infopath comments and newline textbox
      Apr 26
      Visual Studio 2010 Workflow + Infopath 2010 forms - troubleshooting
      Mar 28
      Could not load web.config file. The given key was not present in the dictionary.
      Mar 25
      new SPSite - FileNotFoundException
      Feb 2
      Simplified deleting in OSX Finder
      Jan 17
    2010
      Turbocharge your SQL development: get more out of SQL Server Management Studio
      Dec 14
      Quick tip: Use OVER to get row numbers in subsets
      Dec 10
      Guide: MOSS 2007 Multiple site collections on Port 80
      Dec 9
      Troubleshooting BDC Associations and Related Data List Web part
      Jun 22
      Set SharePoint BDC field value programmatically in Visual Studio workflow
      Jun 16
      Simplified SharePoint solution deployment
      Jun 16
      Extend SharePoint Designer's workflow activities
      Jun 16
      Reporting a product bug to Microsoft
      Mar 12
      Force comment entry when editing a list item
      Feb 10
    2009
      Canon IP5200R wireless printing + OSX 10.6.* Snow Leopard
      Nov 17
      Workflow error help: failed on start and more
      Jul 16
      Business Data Catalog tips, hints and errors
      Jul 14
    2008
      My iPhone experience
      Oct 23
      Wireless backups: USB drive, Airport extreme and Time Machine
      Sep 8
      Leopard, iTunes & Airport Express: An unknown error occurred (-3256)
      May 27
    2006
      Awesome programming cock-up
      Apr 13
      Imagelists in VS2005
      Jan 26
  • © matt 2000-2025
  • About & Contact