Feelings of White   In a few words, explain what this blog is about.
Me, looking like Hot Sex inc. with my cool shades, a beer and my bountiful chest hair displayed for all to see
  • all
  • curator's pick
  • funny
  • narcissism
  • technical
  • the arts
  • the void
  • writing

Archive for the technical category


Command Line Parsing using Attribute Decoration in .NET

2008 Jul 16

* Comments(0)
Filed under technical and tagged c#, command-line, library.

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

Read Article

WordPress plugin: Apply a CSS class defined in a post’s custom field

2008 May 22

* Comments(0)
Filed under technical and tagged plugin, the process, wordpress.

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

Read Article

TortoiseSVN + Command Line

2008 Jan 31

* Comments(5)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged subversion, TortoiseSVN.

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 [...]

Read Article

Powershell 2.0 CTP

2007 Dec 13

* Comments(2)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged mlp.

Powershell 2.0 CTP has been released, download link enclosed.

Read Article

Big-O Notation

2007 Oct 03

* Comments(2)
Filed under technical and tagged mlp.

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

Read Article

Powershell Help Files

2007 Jun 08

* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged mlp.

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)

Read Article

Download Heroes Comix with the PowerShell Goodness

2007 May 02

* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell, technical, the arts and tagged heroes.

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 to auto-detect the number [...]

Read Article

Look what you can do in Powershell: FTP!

2007 Mar 14

* Comments(5)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged ftp.

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 = "open [...]

Read Article

"*.*" -ne "*" (or, old dos habits die hard)

2007 Feb 12

* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged wtf.

# 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 [...]

Read Article

Good Goddamn, Powershell Sucks!

2007 Feb 06

* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell and tagged bug, wtf.

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 directory [...]

Read Article

Look what you can do in PowerShell

2007 Jan 18

* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged testpoint.

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

Read Article

My First PowerShell

2007 Jan 16

* Comments(1)
Filed under powershell.

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

Read Article

Pithy PowerShell

2007 Jan 12

* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged job.

Basic file creation, compare directories, launch browsers, grab information from svn and a few more brief scripts

Read Article

Unit Testing in PowerShell



* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged unit testing.

Check it out if you're into that sort of thing

Read Article

Powershell Invaders

2007 Jan 08

* Comments(0)
Filed under powershell, technical and tagged game.

Some crazy tallented fellow renade space invaders. In powershell.

Read Article

Next Page »

Subscribe

Recent Posts

  • Why I’m Throwing Away My Vote
  • Comics You Must Read! #1
  • The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]
  • Money & Other Friends [Tamdhu Stories 1.2]
  • Betty the Gas-Whore [Tamdhu Stories 1.1]
  • Command Line Parsing using Attribute Decoration in .NET
  • We Are Metallica
  • The Best of Projects: Fiction [3 of 3]
  • Good goddamn, Galactica Roxxors With Coxx Out
  • BSG 4×07 - Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?
  • WordPress plugin: Apply a CSS class defined in a post’s custom field
  • The Best of Projects: Autoserious [2 of 3]
  • The Best of Projects: Eclectic [1 of 3]
  • The Four Noble Truths, phrased in a rather beautiful way
  • BSG 4×06 - Faith

Recent Comments

  • Mike on Why I’m Throwing Away My Vote
  • Cliff on Why I’m Throwing Away My Vote
  • Morpheus on Comics You Must Read! #1
  • Morpheus on The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]
  • Legion on The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]
  • Morpheus on The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]
  • Legion on The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]
  • Morpheus on The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]
  • Kyle on The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]
  • Legion on The Shit Dancer [Tamdhu Stories 1.3]

Tags

4400 bsg cliff comics curation depression ds9 erron fiction game janine job kelly kyle liam lost manifesto meta mlp music passionate diatribes plug plugin poem powershell rds relationships review revisionism sam sermon shaun software spirituality star trek suicide tamdhu testpoint the process travels video vlad wacky walkabout wtf

Archives

  • October 2008 (1)
  • August 2008 (2)
  • July 2008 (3)
  • June 2008 (1)
  • May 2008 (11)
  • April 2008 (7)
  • March 2008 (3)
  • February 2008 (1)
  • January 2008 (2)
  • December 2007 (1)
  • October 2007 (1)
  • September 2007 (3)
  • August 2007 (1)
  • June 2007 (3)
  • May 2007 (2)
  • March 2007 (5)
  • February 2007 (5)
  • January 2007 (13)
  • September 2006 (1)
  • June 2001 (3)
  • May 2001 (2)
  • April 2001 (2)
  • March 2001 (2)
  • February 2001 (1)
  • January 2001 (1)
  • November 2000 (5)
  • May 2000 (3)
  • April 2000 (5)
  • March 2000 (3)
  • February 2000 (3)
  • January 2000 (6)
  • December 1999 (17)

Copyright © 2008 Feelings of White | Powered by WordPress | Designed by Stephen Reinhardt; tweaked by me