--- title: Home url: 'https://www.dowerchin.com/' markdown: 'https://www.dowerchin.com/index.md' date: '2023-02-08' description: 'Welcome to my part of the galaxy.' --- Home [ ![Intel Arc B390 Blender Artifacting](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/08.intel-arc-b390-blender-artifacting/blender_arc-01.png) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/intel-arc-b390-blender-artifacting) [ Blender ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Blender#blog_list) ### Intel Arc B390 Blender Artifacting [Intel Arc B390 Blender Artifacting](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/intel-arc-b390-blender-artifacting) Over the last few days I have been testing Samsung’s latest Galaxy Book6 with Intel’s Panther-Lake processor with an ARC B390 GPU. Overall I have been very impressed with the system, but I recently ran into an odd issue using Blender 5.1. Blender has wide support for various graphics accelerators,... 27th Mar 2026 [ ![Deploy SQL Server 2022 in Podman Container on Windows](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/03.deploy-sql-server-2022-in-podman-container-on-windows/podman_sql_server-01.png) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/deploy-sql-server-2022-in-podman-container-on-windows) [ Podman ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Podman#blog_list) [ SQL Server ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:SQL%20Server#blog_list) ### Deploy SQL Server 2022 in Podman Container on Windows [Deploy SQL Server 2022 in Podman Container on Windows](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/deploy-sql-server-2022-in-podman-container-on-windows) The most obvious way to use Microsoft SQL Server is to just install it on your computer. But doing so uses resources on your current computer and it becomes something that is part of your normal OS. I was looking for a way to run SQL server in a more isolated mode where I can turn it on and off with... 25th Mar 2026 [ Python ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Python#blog_list) ### Better Arguments for Python CLI Script [Better Arguments for Python CLI Script](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/better-arguments-for-python-cli-script) Python is an excellent language to create scripts that perform utility tasks, but to add flexibility to any script it needs to accept parameters. Getting parameters is easy enough, using `sys.argv` as illustrated in the example below. ```python import sys # Ensure there are at least 3 arguments, of course... ``` 7th Mar 2025 [ ![Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 Keyboard Review](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/logitech-keys-to-go-2-keyboard-review/20240820_110302.jpg) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/logitech-keys-to-go-2-keyboard-review) ### Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 Keyboard Review [Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 Keyboard Review](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/logitech-keys-to-go-2-keyboard-review) I'm not a big traveller, but recent circumstances had me moving around, and I had need to bring my tech with me. I don't often work with my laptop alone, I like to have an external display and usually have my laptop positioned to the side, which often needs me to have an external keyboard. My prefer... 20th Aug 2024 [ ![Pathing to Images in Flutter Web](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/02.pathing-images-in-flutter-web/local_version.png) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/pathing-images-in-flutter-web) [ Flutter ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Flutter#blog_list) ### Pathing to Images in Flutter Web [Pathing to Images in Flutter Web](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/pathing-images-in-flutter-web) In my adventures delving into Flutter for the Web, I came across an odd situation regarding images. Typically, you would store your images in an "assets" folder, and within this folder an "images" folder. In order to use the images in your Flutter app, you would add this directory to your pubspec... 14th Aug 2024 ### Cached Network Image [Cached Network Image](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/cached-network-image) Flutter's built in Image widget is great, but there will be times when you need to pull images from the network, and will need to do that often. Doing many repeat queries for the same images can be a drain on network resources. In order to alleviate this potential issue, we can adopt a mechanism use... 4th Mar 2024 [ ![Custom Icon for PowerShell WPF App](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/custom-icon-for-powershell-wpf-app/dchin_powershell_banner.png) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/custom-icon-for-powershell-wpf-app) [ Tutorial ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Tutorial#blog_list) [ PowerShell ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:PowerShell#blog_list) ### Custom Icon for PowerShell WPF App [Custom Icon for PowerShell WPF App](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/custom-icon-for-powershell-wpf-app) In this article, I'll be talking about how to use a custom icon for your PowerShell GUI. By default, running your PowerShell script that shows a WPF UI, the titlebar of your app will use a default PowerShell Icon, like the one shown below. ![PS_App_Icon_default](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/custom-icon-for-powershell-wpf-app/PS_App_Icon_default.png "PS_App_Icon_default") Thankfully you can change this, using some simple code... 21st Feb 2024 [ ![Powershell: Radio Button Events](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/06.radio-button-events/dchin_powershell_banner.png) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/radio-button-events) [ PowerShell ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:PowerShell#blog_list) [ Tutorial ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Tutorial#blog_list) ### Powershell: Radio Button Events [Powershell: Radio Button Events](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/radio-button-events) In this tutorial I show how to setup events for Radio Buttons for a WPF GUI, and I also show how you can enable/disable other controls using the radio buttons as toggles. The first thing we need is a WPF form to play around with. Let's create the following: ![wpf_radio_events](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/06.radio-button-events/wpf_radio_events.png "wpf_radio_events") You can see this simple form is just... 19th Feb 2024 [ ![Using Images in Flutter](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/04.test-youtube-link/dchin_flutter_banner.png) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/test-youtube-link) [ Flutter ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Flutter#blog_list) [ Tutorial ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Tutorial#blog_list) ### Using Images in Flutter [Using Images in Flutter](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/test-youtube-link) I made a tutorial on how to use Images in a Flutter app. It's a pretty basic thing to do, but still worth understating. I show how to use a local image and a network one. 6th Feb 2024 [ ![Python: Creating Folders and Modifying their Dates](https://www.dowerchin.com/user/pages/01.blog/03.python-creating-folders-and-modifying-their-dates/python_banner.png) ](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/python-creating-folders-and-modifying-their-dates) [ Python ](https://www.dowerchin.com/tag:Python#blog_list) ### Python: Creating Folders and Modifying their Dates [Python: Creating Folders and Modifying their Dates](https://www.dowerchin.com/blog/python-creating-folders-and-modifying-their-dates) I recently had a need to make a simple application that created a series of folders, which normally isn't hard, but I had one requirement, which was to make the folder's create and modification dates specific. So, how to create the folders. 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