New Home

Welcome loyal reader. I’m not certain how you arrived here, but mattezell.info has found a new home – https://immatt.com. All the original content of mattezell.info now resides here at https://archive.immatt.com. In the coming days, weeks, months and/or years new things will be coming to https://immatt.com. To get started, head over to the new blog at… Continue reading New Home

To be continued?

Good day, reader. If you’ve stumbled here, it was most surely by accident or to read one of my posts from a year or more ago. The truth is, I’ve not maintained this site like I wish that I had – not just for the last year, but for quite a while longer if we’re… Continue reading To be continued?

Tab Dump – 03/09/2016

For all of my anxiously awaiting readers – the next installment of tab dump (All two of you bots) 😛 https://www.google.com/foobar/ – Searching for “AngularJS Directive” presented me with a curious UI effect on the search results page – playfully asking if I wanted to play… So far, I’ve done one exercise – just waiting… Continue reading Tab Dump – 03/09/2016

2048 2048 2048 2048 – “The Windows PATH Can Be a Source of 2 Tons of Fun”

tl;dr Keep your Windows 7 PATH under 2048 characters and you’ll be good – don’t and you won’t.  In related news, if you already have a lot of dev tools installed on your PC, look at your path length first if it all gets pear shaped after your VS install… Now the non-tldr… I recently decided… Continue reading 2048 2048 2048 2048 – “The Windows PATH Can Be a Source of 2 Tons of Fun”

Tab Dump – 05/03/2015

Tab Dump It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these and the tab count in my always-running instance of Chrome is showing it… As you will see, I’ve been playing a bit lately – or at least starting to play, though I never am able to find the time to finish 😛 Learning… Continue reading Tab Dump – 05/03/2015

Travel is Fatal

 Every time that I’ve forced myself to leave my comfort zone in order to experience someplace or something new, this has been my takeaway… In the wise words of Mr. Twain: “Travel is Fatal”… My personal experience has shown me that while I’ve evolved to be able to form assumptions about things I know little of,… Continue reading Travel is Fatal

My first dance with Cordova + Ionic + Crosswalk + LiveReload… WHITE SCREEN! THINGS BROKE!

tl;dr – Since I am apparently a long winded such-in-such (ex: even my tldr is too long)… If you’re having white screen issues with Ionic + Crosswalk + LiveReload after introducing Crosswalk to your working project, here’s the updated process for introducing Crosswalk to your ionic project: [code] npm install ionic -g cd MySupaAwesomeApp ionic browser… Continue reading My first dance with Cordova + Ionic + Crosswalk + LiveReload… WHITE SCREEN! THINGS BROKE!

NTFS File System Tunneling (…is stupid …and wrong)

I will keep this short… I’ve already spent far too much time on this easy to work around peculiarity of NTFS and how it associates file meta information under the hood… Consider this console app: http://pastebin.com/66QABWS3 If you were to actually read this (don’t feel too bad if you didn’t – the last link will explain… Continue reading NTFS File System Tunneling (…is stupid …and wrong)