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I'd like to share how I manage my dotfiles. Are you familiar with dotfiles? According to the Arch Linux wiki: [dotfiles are] user-specific application...
I've begun presenting again with some frequency. My topic of choice, unsurprisingly, is PowerShell. I had presented on PowerShell quite a bit back in 2009, but...
Date math is hard... at least for me. My brain has trouble thinking in terms of dates. I probably overanalyze things, but if you say something like "let's meet...
Last week, prior to a weekly meeting, one of my team members had the idea to take a few minutes before the meeting to review some code. We already do code...
I know what you're thinking... "did he just say 'binary data'? Like, 1's and 0's?" Well, yes, yes I did. If you're like me, the last time you actively had to...
I'm sure I'm the only person in the world who ever wants to know what the command line arguments for running processes is, but in the remote chance that...
If you seriously still haven't heard or used PowerShell yet, come to my Little Rock DNUG presentation on the topic on Monday, July 13. Or, if you're busy...
Never heard of ack? Well, by ack's admission, it is "better than grep." That's up to you to decide, but it does make searching code easier than grep. As a...
UPDATE - I ended up posting my version of the Find-String script on GitHub. Check out the latest Find-String news at GitHub. --- I blogged a while back about...
This is just a quick post to share a very simple PowerShell script I wrote to extract files from a compressed file (zip, 7z, whatever). When downloading...
If you've been writing .NET applications for a while, you're likely aware that you're not supposed to just throw Exception. Instead, if you're dealing with a...
Last week, the PowerShell team released PowerShell v2 CTP3. And, of course, there was much rejoicing. I've got quite a bit I'd like to blog about regarding...
I was working with a lot of images for a website today and I needed to quickly create thumbnails for each one. I did a quick Google search on PowerShell and...
I promised the slides, notes and links from my Memphis .NET User Group talk, so here they are... and wow, they haven't really changed much from when I gave the...
Tonight, I presented on PowerShell to the Fort Smith .NET User Group. It was my first presentation/speech since college! Fortunately, it seems to have gone...
I didn't expect to add a Speaking category to my blog just yet, but... well, here it is, my premiere Speaking post. I'll be presenting on PowerShell to the...
A coworker swung by a few days ago to ask some questions about using Reflection. I learn really well by example so I decided to use Powershell to show using...
Here is a simple script I wrote which was inspired by this post on terminal color highlighting and by ColorDiff that does essentially the same thing. Here is a...
I didn't expect to see this in the next version of PowerShell - very cool. It definitely still needs some work, but I like the start. The syntax highlighting...
I'm finding myself wondering if I'm a beta junkie or a CTP junkie. Why? Because Jeffrey Snover announced that there will be a CTP release of PowerShell 2.0...
I was browsing around a few days ago and came across a link to a blog post on the SAPIEN website about searching live.com from PowerShell. Sounds cool, I...
/n software has a promotion going right now where you can get a free Powershell sticker from them. I haven't been so excited about stickers since elementary...
A recent post by Lee Holmes on breaking your writer's (blogger's?) block is prompting this post. I recently finished reading Steve McConnell's book, Code...
UPDATE NUMBER 2: Kevin commented about a flaw in my script wherein it would keep files open until the PowerShell process was closed - a scenario I should've...
A few weeks ago I posted a way to use PowerShell to find in files. This is just an extension of that post to show how you might open the results of your find...
I haven't posted anything on PowerShell in a while so here's something that's useful. Or, if you like things a little more abbreviated, try this: Select-String...
Having trouble changing your PowerShell Script Execution Policy in Vista because of access problems? This whole limited user thing will take some time to get...
Recently, I've been experimenting with different console colors in PowerShell, primarily because the light gray on black is sort of boring (lame excuse, I...
Yesterday, I downloaded the Developer Productivity Tools video from the Wrox website that Scott Hanselman did for one of his presentations with a user group....
I don't like repeating myself, but I need to again: if you're not subscribed to the PowerShell blog, then why in the world not?!? The PowerShell team has been...
I can't help myself, PowerShell is great and I keep finding useful things to do with it. Most of what I've been finding is easily accomplished in other ways,...
Check out this snippet: Awesome! Recursively removing files!
Most of you probably are already aware of this little development, but there is a freeware IDE for PowerShell development (Scott beat me to the post...). It...
Many thanks to Robert W. Anderson for this solution. In his post VS2005 PowerShell Prompt, Robert details how to create your PowerShell profile script which...
Never heard of PowerShell you say? I hadn't either, at least until today. That's because it used to be called Monad. Microsoft released the RC1 of PowerShell...