Date registered: December 21, 2012
Sep 11
I realize this is late now, but I’ve finally both recovered from devLink 2013 and (most importantly) caught up to the point that I can think about blog posts again. What a great time that was. I can’t overstate how much I enjoyed devLink. This was my first devLink (and obviously my first time presenting …
Jul 17
Even though my day job does not do much with Azure (right now), I thought I should spend some time becoming familiar with the PowerShell connections available to Azure. I’m hardly stretching the state of the art here, but I have had more than a couple of instances lately where standing up a quick website …
Jul 14
Another CodeStock is in the books. Just like every year, I had a great time, and I learned a lot. There were many great sessions this year and I’ll be digesting this information for a while. One of the things that struck me this year is that, even though there were great sessions, some of …
May 31
If you’re a fan of the show “Family Guy”, you may remember the joke where Robert Loggia was asked to spell his name. He did so by working his name into a sentence for every letter. For example, “E as in everybody loves Robert Loggia.” We’ve started doing that around the office, with the challenge …
Apr 30
Conference season is almost upon us. Codestock is coming up in mid-July and DevLink at the end of August. I’m really looking forward to some focused learning as well as getting to “geek out” with some other developers. If you haven’t yet signed up for Codestock, you should do so if travel to Knoxville, TN …
Apr 19
We have been using PowerShell to perform low-friction updates to our intranet application for several months. This lets any of our DevOps staff build an update package, deploy it to the client system and run a single command to update the application. This has worked well for us, until we finally bumped into our first …
Mar 07
My employer has a lot of PowerShell v2 scripts in production, spread across a great many servers at a great many sites. It’s because I have to support these scripts in production that I have held off on updating myself to PowerShell v3. I finally got tired of holding myself back and took the plunge. …
Jan 15
In a recent upgrade to our product, we discovered that a great many of our custom reports had UniqueName properties that were incompatible with the new version of Telerik’s RadGrid. The question fell to me, “how many reports have spaces in their UniqueName property?” Fortunately, PowerShell made it fairly simple to identify the reports with …
Dec 21
This post falls under the heading of things that probably don’t make much sense, except it was fun and I wanted to do something very specific using a very specific technology. Rather than run yet another program in my task tray (which mostly irritates me because of icon clutter and not system resources), how could …
Nov 02
In a previous post, I described how to setup a file system junction to make Windows Live Writer save to Dropbox without knowing it. That solution worked if setup on each computer that I use. However, I am a huge fan of having the PowerShell profile I stash in Dropbox keep track of this type …
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