Ah, long file paths bit me again today - this time with `ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory()` not unzipping long path files, even when specifying long path syntax for the output folder. In this post I briefly review Windows long path issues again, and describe what doesn't work and how to work around this particular problem. While specific to `ExtractToDirectory()` a similar approach might apply to other batch file based operations.

It's not a common use case, but if you need need to dynamically add external code at runtime, NuGet packages are the most familiar way for developers to add that functionality besides old-school direct assembly loading. In this post I look at my LiveReloadServer local Web Server tool and how I integrated both external assembly loading and NuGet package support to allow extensibility for the Razor (and Markdown) scripting functionality of LiveReloadServer.

Renewing Filezilla certificates I've run into a 'huh?' moment a few times trying to renew the self-signed certificates for the Administration interface. Trying the obvious entries of putting in the DNS names results in an error that's not perplexingly is fixed by providing a full Common Name instead.