Hi, my name is Patrick Lambert and I'm an IT worker, technical writer, digital artist and video gamer. I live in Montreal, Canada and have over 15 years of experience in technology. This site contains links to many things I've created in the past couple of years.

Name	Description
NodePoint	A tickets, projects and assets management web app.
Healthstone	A lightweight system monitoring service.
Aurebesh	Learn Aurebesh, the Star Wars language.
Crypt	Crypto and hashing web utilities.
Headers	See what your browser transmits to web servers.
Scripts	My system administration scripts.

You can find all my open source code on GitHub.

Top 10 tenets of a System Administrator	Whitepaper
What every system administrator should keep to heart.

Making a .NET Windows app without using Visual Studio	Tutorial
This tutorial shows how to build a simple C# .NET app without a full IDE.

Deep analysis of modern web site	Whitepaper
This paper studies in details the process of loading a single popular web site, along with the vast amount of HTTP requests resulting from this single action, to sites all across the Internet. We will look at some of the code being loaded, what it accomplishes, and the impact it has on reliability and performance.

Database administration for non-DBAs	Tutorial
This tutorial will show you the basics of administering, config-uring, querying and troubleshooting SQL databases in a profes-sional environment, and is aimed at people with no formal database administration background who are thrust into that role. We will mostly focus on the MS SQL Server and MySQL engines.

Office 365 Cheatsheet	Cheatsheet
This information can be useful to set up and manage an Office 365 subscription.

A study of code abstraction	Whitepaper
Modern developers are shielded from the inner workings of com-puters and networks thanks to several layers of code abstraction. We'll dig into those layers from a single line of Perl code, down to the bytes that get produced at the bottom of the API stack.

Generating Global IDs	Whitepaper
This white paper describes the process of generating Global IDs for use in computer applications, including popular methods of doing so, pros and cons, along with practical coding examples.

A quick guide to LaTeX	Tutorial
A quick guide on using LaTeX for everyday word processing.

Networking Concepts	Cheatsheet
This cheatsheet contains basic networking information.

More documents are available in the archive

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Field	Knowledge
System Administration	Windows Server, XP, 7, 8, 10, Linux, iOS, Android, Active Directory, IIS, Apache, SQL, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure
Web development, scripting and coding	HTML, Python, Perl, PowerShell, Git
Writing	MS Office, LaTeX, Markdown
Networking	TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, VPN, RDP, FTP, SSH, VoIP, Ethernet
Technical Support	Office 365, Google Apps, IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc.

Type	Favorites
Movies	Star Wars, Planet of the Apes
TV shows	The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones
Video Games	Half Life 2, KOTOR, Fallout 3, WoW, SWTOR