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 [...]
SysAdmins, scripters, developers and memes
So, I’ve been called out on this latest meme posting by /\/\o\/\/ and although I usually just ignore these things, As with any curious developer, I had to trace this thing back to it’s root cause … it turns out this started as a Software Development thing, and it was altered into a sort of [...]
Eight Queens in PowerShell
Well … my brother called me with an odd compiler problem with his C++ homework today (he’s working on another degree, and taking some programming courses) ... but the homework problem he was working on was the infamous N Queens problem: Given a chess board of N x N squares, place N queens on the [...]
Writing Cmdlets for the PowerShell Pipeline
In a continuation of what is, sadly, becoming a series on how the PowerShell Pipeline works … Karl Prosser brought to my attention that certain powershell commands which have an -InputObject parameter don’t actually work when you pass something into it … so I thought I should create a cmdlet to show you how to [...]