Winterdom

After a long time of procrastinating about it, I finally sat down and started putting together a simple profile script for PowerShell to make it a usable alternative for everyday tasks. It's an excellent shell, but without tweaking it a bit, it can be a bit painful to use at...

Recently I was writing a small script for Powershell and I needed to call an external program from my script. However, I wanted to be able to put keep the directory the executable was located in in a variable; you know, like one usually does in regular batch files. After...

I just ran into Vimperator today. It's a Firefox add-on that enables VIM-like functionality directly info Firefox! I installed it to see what it's like and it seems pretty interesting (though not sure whether I'll get used to it or no). By default, Vimperator hides the Firefox menu and toolbar,...

Yesterday I decided to go a bit on the bleeding edge and went ahead and installed KDE 4.0 on my machine running Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I started installing kde4-core first, then went for the whole kde4 package. For the most part, the installation went OK. There are many UI changes,...

I spent some time the last couple of days working on some C# code that used P/Invoke to interact with an unmanaged library consisting of several function calls and some callback procedures. One of the issues I ran into was that I needed to pass to one of the library's...

Jeff Atwood has an interesting piece about applications polluting the user space, forcing their own folder and file structures and other crap into the user's home folder. He's right, but I think he stops too early. Jeff's right that the classical Unix practice is a bit better than what Windows...

A few months back I commented that I had gone back to using Vim as my text editor when not using Visual Studio, and to be honest, I haven't regretted that at all. I'm not a Vim power user by any measure, but I do get around and I'm constantly...

Now that VS 2008 is out, think we can put support for italic fonts in the Visual Studio editor for VS 10.0? That way we won't need to depend on Damien Guard having to hack fonts to give us our italics :-). Technorati tags: Visual Studio

I've uploaded a new update to my PipelineTesting library, a tool for creating automated tests for BizTalk Server 2006 pipelines and custom pipeline components. Read more about PipelineTesting, and download the code here. The only change on this version is that the IPipelineContext.GetEventStream() method now returns a stub implementation BAM...

Aaron Jensen has put up a short screencast on using Vim, showing some of the tricks you can use when editing text with it; very cool stuff. Some other Vim resources that might be interesting: Daniel Webb has a few short videos on Vim. Vim: 7 Habits for Effective Text...