I wanted to start my best-practices series…
I was trying to write the first real post for that series today, but I got really distracted, and instead … Created a Virtual Launch Party for Lee Holmes’ 2nd Edition Windows PowerShell Cookbook Updated my SharpSsh Module (which I wrote about ages ago in Scriptable SSH From PowerShell) to accept PSCredential objects or passwords, [...]
Trying to restart blogging …
Ok, so it’s been awhile since I blogged faithfully. I got really busy leading up to the Scripting Games, and then I got even busier afterward … and then I just got distracted. In fact, I have about 9 “drafts” posts queued up in WordPress that I started and never finished, so what I probably [...]
Bit9 “Most Vulnerable Applications” report is fatally flawed
There has been a lot of buzz on Twitter (etc.) about the report issued by Bit9 (as reported without details by NeoWin). The list is topped by Firefox, and the top 10 are all non-Microsoft applications … shocker! Well, if you download the PDF (and read it with Foxit Reader because Adobe Acrobat and Flash [...]
PDC Week: Too Much Information!
This week is Microsoft’s PDC, and I, regrettably, am not there. So I’m following along from a distance, watching the keynotes live from the main site and reading a lot about Microsoft Azure Services Platform and in it’s various incarnations … and trying to follow some of the best coverage: Ars Technica BetaNews Beyond Binary [...]
Random News Digest …
There’s fun stuff happening lately, so here’s a post full of tidbits you may have missed. Like: Codeplex has announced Subversion support. They will be running a server-side SvnBridge to allow access to all the projects so you can grab source more easily because it supports anonymous access. Amusingly, it’s actually easier to use than [...]
PowerShell blog RSS Pipe
This is just a short post to announce that I’ve created a Yahoo! “pipe” aggregating the latest PowerShell related posts (in chronological order) from a whole bunch of different PowerShell blogs. I won’t list them here, because they are listed on the pipe page, and I don’t want to have to maintain the list twice [...]
Google: Comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy
So, Privacy International has made official and extremely public what I’ve been muttering about for years: Google doesn’t care about your privacy. A recent study they published rated Google as the worst internet service. In fact, in light of the results, they actually called the study
Mac users more secure?
So David Morgenstern over at eWeek has an opinion piece claiming that “PC users should forget their outrage and come to understand that life isn’t fair. The Mac platform is more secure than Windows and will continue to be so.” Just for fun, I’m not going to try to debate that. It’s absolutely true (as [...]
Silverlight Streaming, Silverlight CLR, Data Services, Ozzie, and IE 8
Microsoft made several big announcements today at MIX07… CLR in Silverlight The most exciting announcement I’ve today is that Silverlight will include the Common Language Runtime (CLR) on both Windows and Mac … which means that it will allow development using any .NET-supported languages. They’re even including the open source Dynamic Language Runtime and thus [...]
Best places to be a software developer…
It’s common knowledge that San Jose, San Francisco and New York City are among the highest paying places for software developers to work. And it’s generally common knowledge that these places are also among the most expensive places to live … Delatores has done some interesting math based on the cost of living and salary [...]