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Links, Bookmarks, and Sharing Oh My!
I recently moved my RSS reading habits over to Google Reader, primarily because I read feeds at work and home both and I’d rather not have to keep my feeds synchronized in both places. The new design is a million times better than the old design, too.
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More PowerShell automation and unrelated updates
A recent post by Lee Holmes on breaking your writer’s (blogger’s?) block is prompting this post. I recently finished reading Steve McConnell’s book, Code Complete*, over the Christmas holidays and the book was amazing. As I read it, I began taking lists of things I wanted to post on that were excellent advice… and ran into a block because there was just so much I wanted to say about. I still plan on writing more detailed posts on the issue but, as Lee suggests, I need to just get out here and post more.
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PowerShell script to calculate file hashes
UPDATE NUMBER 2:
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Harmony remotes don't like UHF...
This Christmas, my wife got me one of those awesome Logitech Harmony remotes (the Harmony 880 for those who are curious, and at a great price, too). I spent the better part of last night attempting to get it set up.
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Say what is not an object?!?
Ahhh, JavaScript error messages.
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What does NaN look like?
I’ll tell you what it looks like.
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Easily open the results from Select-String
A few weeks ago I posted a way to use PowerShell to find in files. This is just an extension of that post to show how you might open the results of your find in a program.
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Big News for Developers
The web has been busy with news about .NET 3.0 going RTM, along with Office 2007, Vista, etc. But some other news that hasn’t received quite as much publicity is news regarding Sysinternals at Microsoft. There were a couple of posts today that I thought were very interesting.
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Find In Files With Powershell
I haven’t posted anything on PowerShell in a while so here’s something that’s useful.
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Middle clicking really is awesome!
Colin has raved about the joys of middle clicking for a while now, but I was never able to enjoy it because clicking my mouse’s middle button never seemed to do all of the cool things that his did. Mine brought up a really weird multi-directional arrow thing that was supposed to let me scroll in any direction I wanted - except that it rarely worked the way I wanted it to.
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