I used Yahoo Pipes to combine all the Summer Blog’s 13 Challengers into a single rss feed. This complex wizardry took me around an hour. I’ll give you the link, then I’ll talk about why Yahoo Pipes is awesome, then show you how you too can be an internet wiz. I was going to call this post "Aggregating & Filtering using Yahoo Pipes" but, y'know, I wanted someone to actually read this ;) Go on, inhale!

Join BSG Music computer Bear McCreary on this backstage tour of the Galactica where no one knows who the frak he is. James Callis introduces us to the "Balter is the mutherfucking shit!!!" song and Edward James Olmos does some bear impressions. Rawr! Bonus: a special feature on The Ack Attack and her Lost Recaps!

In this installment, we learn how all classes should be designed around how the tooltips appear to other developers. Well, not quite. Not food for thought, more a refreshing light snack.

At some point, you'll have to write an application accepting command line arguments. Typically a console application, but GUI apps can accept command lines too. Its features and options will grow and you will become frustrated with .Net's default abilities. You'll desire a robust parsing ability, and you'll wish to configure it easily, automatically and in an extensible way. Welcome to today's topic

A wordpress plugin I wrote to surround the_content with a div class="of your choosing".

TortoiseSVN is a well loved shell integration tool, and if you’re into both the Windows and the Subversion, chances are excellent that you’re already using it. But did you know this brilliant GUI has a dark side? What else would I love about Tortoise but its command line support! I finally dug in and made [...]

Powershell 2.0 CTP has been released, download link enclosed.

Coding Horror has a lovely treatment of Big-O notation called Everything Is Fast For Small n. I R SMRTr now. (via Vlad)

Print able Quick Reference Guide for your printing pleasure Graphic help file same contents as the commandline help, bundled as a searchable windows help file with hyperlinks and fun such goodness. Online Quick Reference Page for online reference (first two via Powershell Guy)

Are you a Heroes fan? One that's not afraid to run a powershell script? And someone who reads my blog?  If you're still reading, then today's your lucky day!  Here's a snippet I used to download the supplementary heroes comics.  Clicking hyperlinks with a mouse is for chumps! I didn't bother to figure out how [...]

Imagine my surprise when my friendly neighbourhood I.T. fellow told me a ftp command line client built into windows. Man, I haven't done command line FTP since high school. But after finding a good ftp command reference, well, of course, I couldn't resist trying to concoct an unholy marriage between ftp and powershell. $listOfFiles = [...]

# Setup Demonstration Files - Erase Existing Files rd -recurse -force c:\LogFiles rd -recurse -force c:\Drawings # Setup Demonstration Files md c:\LogFiles echo foo | out-file c:\LogFiles\foo.txt md C:\LogFiles\SubDir cp c:\LogFiles\foo.txt c:\LogFiles\SubDir md c:\Drawings # Does not work as expected cp -recurse -force c:\LogFiles\*.* c:\Drawings #only copies foo.txt # Does what you want it to [...]

Apparently Blogger sucks too, 'cause I can't get this picture to display at full resolution. You'll have to click to read it: In case you can't be bothered, powershell's remove-item crashes with "The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the [...]

Launch hidden IE windows, invoke an exe and wait for completion, download RSS Feeds and web contents, upload to flickr, invoke script blocks from C#. OMG I'll faint at all the cool things you can do

The PowerShell team once requested everyone to blog your initial powershell experiences, and after a personal appeal, how can I refuse!