PowerShell Modules, Metadata, and Mysteries
I’ve finally finished the first public release of PoshWpf, and was getting ready to ship it as part of a new release of my PowerBoots module. The idea is that I need PoshWpf itself to be a stand-alone module so that it can be used in production with PowerShell 1.0, until such time as PowerShell [...]
Rage Against the Design
So we found a problem recently with a certain scripting language’s argument parsing: function Test-Argument($a) { $a.GetType().FullName } [Test 1]: Test-Argument 4 System.Int32 [Test 2]: Test-Argument .5 System.Double [Test 3]: Test-Argument "hello" System.String [Test 4]: Test-Argument Goodbye System.String [Test 5]: Test-Argument -42 System.String [Test 6]: Test-Argument (-42) System.Int32 Why can’t it properly parse [...]
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 [...]
Stupid Laws: the Don’t Protect Me edition
This is just a rant about crazy politicians and the over-legislation of protecting people against themselves. http://www.motorcycle.com/news/passenger-age-cap-proposed-in-ontario-87568.html This law would (if passed) prevent driving a motorcycle on a highway if another person under the age of 14 years is a passenger on the motorcycle. In support of the law, Helena Jaczek “cited statistics that show [...]
International Travelers Beware: We Will Seize Your Stuff
Fast on the heels of the Chinese government, the Orwellian Department of Homeland Security has officially announced that it is claiming new police powers this week: to seize travelers’ laptops, cell phones, cameras, PDAs, iPods, video tapes, books and even magazines … without any suspicion or probable cause and keep them as long as they [...]
Evernote Click-Through is a Disgrace
Someone earlier today was gushing about how neat Evernote is … it’s a OneNote-like application which features add-ins for browsers and email clients to let you clip text and images, or record voice, take notes in handwriting, etc … and it’s cross-platform and has a version for Windows Mobile and iPhone! I thought it sounded [...]
Rant: Sometimes I hate my job
So I’ve been asked to add a feature to one of the apps that I nominally took over when my former manager left … they want a management pane where certain authorized super users (to be decided later) can add data to the main lookup tables, and must be able to do clean up by [...]
Crazy Work Week
Here’s a snippet from the latest update to my resumé ... you’ll notice I struck out the “create” portion of the descriptions — as long as we just talk about maintenance and support tasks, everything you see here is what I did in just the last two weeks since one of my teammates transferred to [...]
Click-through licenses are getting out of hand
Can’t someone put a stop to this stuff? Where are our representatives when you need them? I started to sign up to try digsby this evening, but when I read the terms of service, I had to quickly back away and abort. Let me just say this for the record: these are not acceptable terms [...]
WordPress, Comments, Caching, and annoyances
By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 16-Jan-2009
This is just a short note to explain why I turned off IntenseDebate: it just seems to use way too much memory on my server — I had to increased the memory available to my blog twice, and was still having issues. Quite frankly, I don’t feel like I was getting anything out of using [...]
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