Huddled Masses

Well, I feel like I left some of you hanging (those who read my blog but don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook or FriendFeed or … something) ...

I aced my Master’s Defense [groupwoot]

Which is to say, I got the highest grade possible for my project (yes, RIT grades your Master’s project when you defend it) and am (unofficially, since I’m still waiting for the paperwork to clear) done with my Master’s degree.

Here are the slides from my presentation (not very exciting without all the stuff I said … maybe I should scan in my 3.5” cards), along with the source .tex including my final paper, the proposal and the original research I did. The source code for the prioject is available, as well as compiled binaries and if you actually want to work on it, I’ve got my database which I could make available.

I took the weekend off

I intended to spend last week celebrating my defense by releasing a new PoshCode build, but stuff happened™ and before I knew it, I had spent the whole weekend hanging out with my kids, and setting up a new MythTV box, and then upgrading my main development box to Vista 64bit (I’ve been frustrated about missing out on some of my RAM because I was running 32-bit Vista).

That’s pretty much completed now (except for the hanging out with the kids part ), so tonight, or tomorrow at the latest, I will get back to the work I had left for PoshCode and try to get that done in time to use it in my presentation next week.

I have several backlogged blog posts waiting…

• I’ve got a few more ideas about doing REST from PowerShell, and about setting up DekiWiki for the PowerShell Community
• I wrote a little script to do compiled C# in PowerShell v1, and a couple functions to do custom IComparer implementations with it.
• Visifire now supports WPF (which means you can use their charts from PowerShell)

• I wrote an extensible IRC bot in under 40 lines of code using SmartIRC4Net from PowerShell

And on top of that, I’ve got a ton of work at work now, mostly involving writing Ruby ...

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