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Alexa Technical Tips 

Thanks – updates on AlexaSkills Tools & Features Presentation

February 9, 2019February 9, 2019 david

Thanks to @memodoring for the informative Twitch presentation on the newest AlexaSkills tools & features this week! @alexadevs #ask #alexa

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Technical Tips Visual Basic Windows 

Visual Basic code for Toolbar Button Installer

February 7, 2019February 10, 2019 david VB, VB.NET, Visual Basic, Windows

02/07/2019 At the top of Internet Explorer, every user’s command bar/toolbar may have a unique arrangement of buttons, if the

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Alexa Technical Tips 

AWS Innovate Online Conference

July 25, 2018January 24, 2019 david

The online presentations were high-level, but still interesting

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Alexa Technical Tips 

Alexa Observations, part 2

May 29, 2018January 24, 2019 david alexa, amazon, aws, Web

In the first post, the address slot type (AMAZON.PostalAddress) was shown in the Alexa Simulator as being populated with 5750

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Alexa Technical Tips 

Alexa Observations

March 22, 2018January 24, 2019 david alexa, amazon, aws, Web

These are some simple observations I made while testing Alexa Skills under development. For address slot types, the simulator requires

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Alexa Technical Tips 

Thanks – “Designing Multimodal Skills for Alexa presentation”

February 7, 2018January 24, 2019 david alexa, amazon, avs, aws, node.js, voice

Thanks @JeffBlankenburg & @memodoring for the great "Designing Multimodal Skills for Alexa presentation" today! #alexa pic.twitter.com/b6wQhdvwgF — David Young (@Dave3Young)

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Technical Tips Windows 

FirstButton Installer

February 2, 2018January 24, 2019 david

FirstButton 1.60 has been released at liquiditylighthouse.com. FirstButton will install a toolbar button on the legacy desktop Internet Explorer browser.

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Linux Technical Tips 

Basic Composer Commands

February 1, 2018January 24, 2019 david

Log on to SSH for your linux host, and enter the following commands. – to show the version of composer-managed

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Technical Tips Windows 

FirstButton 1.60 Released – Liquidity Lighthouse

January 29, 2018January 24, 2019 david

https://t.co/9B3dFef6MH #IE #toolbar #software #opensource — FirstButton (@FirstButton) January 29, 2018

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Alexa Technical Tips 

Thanks for Alexa Dev Day Dallas (Aug 1, 2017)

January 21, 2018January 24, 2019 david

Thanks to @alexadevs,@intel, and @robmccauley for the informative Alexa Dev Day Dallas! #voicedesign #coding #github #AmazonEcho pic.twitter.com/0zBsASByEi — David Young

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Technical Tips Windows 

Update – preventing Windows 10 upgrade

March 19, 2017February 11, 2019 david Windows 10, Windows 7

This is an update to the earlier post on how to prevent Windows from constantly offering to upgrade to Windows

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Linux Technical Tips 

How to customize your Website’s Error Pages (revised)

October 17, 2016January 24, 2019 david

Minor update to the document, to change the following lines in the .htaccess file: Old: ErrorDocument 401 http://david-e-young.com/401page.htm         ErrorDocument 403 http://david-e-young.com/403page.htm

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Technical Tips Windows 

Windows 7 Rollups and preventing Updates

October 14, 2016January 24, 2019 david

The following Windows Update Rollups have recently been made available in the Windows Update utility for Windows 7 SP1 and

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Technical Tips Windows 

Code Signing after SHA-1 phaseout

February 14, 2016January 24, 2019 david

Comodo and Ksoftware have been generously providing replacement certificates to current customers, as a result of the SHA-1 phaseout. The

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Technical Tips Windows 

Preventing update to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8.1

October 22, 2015February 11, 2019 david

Many Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will want to keep their current operating system. To disable the Windows 10

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Technical Tips Windows 

DLL Registration – Win32 vs .NET

May 3, 2015January 24, 2019 david .NET, DLL, VB6, Visual Basic, Windows

There are different methods for registering a Win32-based DLL, versus a .NET DLL. Win32 DLLs were typically created with legacy

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Technical Tips Windows 

GetVersion API and Windows 10

April 13, 2015January 24, 2019 david GetVersion, Manifest, Windows, Windows 10

This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed

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Technical Tips Windows 

Windows SDK Downloads

April 10, 2015January 24, 2019 david SDK, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1

Developers using older versions of Visual Studio, may need to download SDKs to author applications compatible with more recent versions

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Technical Tips Windows 

Firefox Downgrade and Reinstallation

March 1, 2015January 24, 2019 david Firefox, Windows, Windows 7

About once a year, I go through the steps of completely uninstalling Firefox, deleting associated folders, and reinstalling the browser.

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Technical Tips Windows 

GetVersion API and Windows 8.1

February 8, 2015January 24, 2019 david GetVersion, Manifest, Windows 8, Windows 8.1

This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed

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Technical Tips 

Windows 10 Preview on Windows 7/VM Workstation

January 7, 2015September 21, 2015 david preview, Windows 10, Windows 7

To test the technical preview of Windows 10, I followed the instructions at Petri Windows 10 how-to to safely install

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Technical Tips 

IE9+ – Adjusting Toolbar Button Size

December 17, 2014 david CommandBar, IE, Internet Explorer, Registry, Toolbar

One of the items that annoyed me in Internet Explorer 9 / Windows 7, is that the toolbar (CommandBar) is

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Technical Tips 

CHM Challenges with Windows 7

December 16, 2014September 21, 2015 david ActiveX, CHM, exe, help, hh, hhctrl, htmlhelp, ocx, VB6, Windows 7

Microsoft has undergone several phases of security updates on Windows 7, that make it impossible to open a custom .chm

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Technical Tips 

Installing VB6 and VS on the same Windows 7 Machine

December 14, 2014September 21, 2015 david VB6, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Windows 7

How to install Visual Basic 6 and Visual Studio on the same Windows 7 computer.

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Technical Tips 

Outlook-friendly sender name in SMTP headers

May 30, 2014April 6, 2018 david Email, JCL, Outlook, smtp

When receiving SMTP emails from the mainframe with a “from” address claimed to be on the Outlook Server, Outlook may

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Technical Tips 

Retaining HTML formatting in Dynamic Outlook Emails

January 31, 2014April 6, 2018 david Email, HTML, Microsoft, Outlook, VB6, Windows

One of the challenges when dynamically modifying emails created from Outlook templates, is retaining the original html formatting of the

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Legacy / Dinosaurs Technical Tips 

Simple WHOHAS routine

January 23, 2014January 30, 2019 david ALC, assembler, Files, MVS

When another user has locked the file that you want to use, a simple way to identify that user is

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Legacy / Dinosaurs Technical Tips 

Unicode in Batch Email Messages

January 21, 2014January 30, 2019 david Email;batch;Unicode

Unicode Symbols can be used in Email subject lines, messages, and in some cases, other fields. This article discusses ways

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