Posts in category "reference"

I have been studying for several technical certifications and recently an online MBA program with Exams that require studying. A goal in the back of my mind was to study for those using an application that replicates the certification and exam process. With that in mind, I started looking around for a simple test or quiz web application that lets me plugin a pile of questions in multiple-choice format with a timer as a baseline.

While, I did find a couple of promising projects, found in the Research section below, each had some downside or gaps that would require a good bit of rework to make them usable for what I wanted to accomplish. A secondary requirement is to have a somewhat modern web interface and to use a tech stack that I can use to refresh my full-stack programming skills with modern tools.

Another goal is to use this as something that is a break from studying. This little project might be the ticket by having a second thing that keeps my brain from imploding. I cannot use my proxmox clusters or ceph or even networking as those spiral out of control at every chance. This project has to be something infinitely interruptable.

The Copy/Paste of an Event in the Outlook Calendar is no longer offered and cut off without much notice. I can confirm this in Outlook on the Mac as of 4Q-2024. This appears to also impact Windows users but they have a registry workaround to re-enable it. This is not a bug but functionality that was intentionally removed by Microsoft for reasons mentioned in their post below.

Outlook blocks copying meetings with “Copying meetings is not supported.”

This change drove me insane as I historically used calendar events to track my work and export it for hour accounting against projects. Using Tempo with Jira integration made this even easier. Before this change, I would just copy some work event from earlier and move it to a new time that had my project code and description of the project. It was a massively convenient piece of my workflow.

So, deep breath, I finally found another method to make copies of Events that was not obvious.

Google Docs uses a URL based clipboard method to copy/cut and paste images and other media. That happens to works great between Google Docs but it completely fails when I try to take images from Google Docs to my Jekyll Posts when I need an actual image file. This is a small things but took some digging to figure it out for both Windows and MacOS.