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Microcode. Movies. Music. Games. Personal Musings. - James Brundage's Personal Blog
Get-ComputersNearMe
Today I learned a little bit about how to get to some of the data stored within special shell...
Date: 01/05/2010
Write-Progress & WPK
A nifty trick that you can do in WPK is create a WPF progress bar to show the Write-Progress output...
Date: 12/28/2009
Test-Spelling
The Integrated Scripting Environment has many things: A rich debugger, a nifty object model, ...
Date: 12/09/2009
New WPK Video Online: Multitouch Fingerpaint in 30 Lines of PowerShell Script
The 2nd video about WPK just hit Channel9. The first video was a video walk thru of How to...
Date: 10/30/2009
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Trick: Fun With Parameter Binding: The Fake Parameter Set Trick
I’ve been hearing a lot of questions recently about what things you can do with advanced...
Date: 04/10/2009
Microcode: A Quick Trick to turn regular XML into Xaml
MSDN has tons of examples about XAML. Nearly everything in WPF has an example in XAML, but not all...
Date: 01/22/2009
Media: The Moment Obama Got Inaugurated and PhotoSynth Hit Mainstream
Photosynth is a really cool product out of live labs. It's sort of an uber photo collage...
Date: 01/20/2009
Please Join Me for a Power Scripting Podcast Tonight @ 9PM EST (6PM PST)
I’m going to be doing a PowerScripting Podcast tonight @ 9PM EST. There’s a live chat room...
Date: 01/15/2009
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Get-Font
I've started to explore the wild world of XNA. XNA just released version 3, which allows you to make...
Date: 12/24/2008
Microcode: Cool Posts: Visual Studio Tips & Tricks
Benko just posted a Visual Studio Tips & Tricks listing. It's missing on of my favorites,...
Date: 12/17/2008
Media: xBox 360: 70 XNA Games in 24 Days
It’s the weekend. I love my video games, and I really love my xBox 360. I’ve had one...
Date: 12/13/2008
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Scripting the Web (Part 3) (Resolve-Link, Get-WebPageLink)
The first post in this series was learning to crawl. I introduced Get-Web, which allows you to use...
Date: 12/12/2008
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Scripting The Web (Part 1) (Get-Web)
Several of the last posts have tackled how to take the wild world of data and start to turn it into...
Date: 11/30/2008
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: The Joy of using Hashtables with Windows PowerShell
PowerShell is full of nice little touches. While some of these touches are easy to run across, like...
Date: 11/27/2008
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Select-Object (Note Properties) vs Add-Member (Script Properties)
As I've said a number of times before, PowerShell's quantum leap forward is something called the...
Date: 11/25/2008
Microcode: Scripting RSS Feeds with PowerShell and Microsoft.FeedsManager
PowerShell's an amazing glue language. It can help you bring code from all corners of...
Date: 11/10/2008
Microcode: Exploring More of .NET with Get-Assembly
In a previous post, I introduced a function called Get-Type, which allows you to see all of the...
Date: 11/07/2008
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks - Exploring .NET Types with a Get-Type function and Reflection
There's a simple yet powerful function that nearly everyone on the PowerShell team has written a...
Date: 10/23/2008
Microcode: Scripting Tricks : Exploring WPF Routed Events with PowerShell
Both WPF and PowerShell are both full of great little touches. One of WPF's nice touches is Routed...
Date: 10/19/2008
Microcode: All About Modules (Windows PowerShell CTP2)
In a previous post, I showed you how you can debug Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers in...
Date: 08/09/2008
Microcode: Debugging Cmdlets and Providers with Visual Studio and CTP2
In PowerShell CTP2, you have a nice cmdlet, Add-Module, that frees you from the constraints of...
Date: 07/27/2008
Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Trick - Writing functions that use the pipeline or take arguments
I was cleaning up some scripts for posting when I happened upon this minor trick. I had a function...
Date: 07/26/2008
Microcode: Cleaning up DVR with Get-RecordedTV
The first simple way we can approach cleaning up DVR is by making the assertion that shows you don't...
Date: 07/20/2008
Microcode: Cleaning up Get-RecordedTV with Select-Object
In a previous post, I introduced Get-RecordedTV, which was built upon another function,...
Date: 07/20/2008
Music: Welcome to the Social (Zune)
One of the more interesting things about the Zune is the online social network. If you choose...
Date: 07/14/2008
Microcode: Getting DVR MetaData with Search-WindowsDesktop
In the previous post, i explained that I was trying to find a way to get at the information about my...
Date: 07/13/2008
Microcode: Windows PowerShell, Windows Desktop Search & Problem Solving
In the pursuit of my passion of media (specifically, trying to prune my DVR collection in a more...
Date: 07/13/2008