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    TextileWrapper 2.0 and GeSHiWrapper 1.4 started by Jaykul
    EDIT I’m inserting an extra paragraph
    Just to test if the textile stuff is misbehaving
    Because I had an error report.

    I’m releasing a new version of the WordPress Textile 2 plugin, as well as my own plugin for doing syntax highlighting with GeSHi. But I feel
    PDC 2008 Sessions - PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services started by Jaykul
    Props to Luciano Guereche for the download links (and icons)...  incidentally, the url format for those links works for any of the sessions, so you can just replace the “ES24” with whichever session you want and use my Get-Web Cmdlet or even the WGet Scrip
    Seeking DVR & cable-spliter recommendations… started by Jaykul
    I’ve been looking at building myself a mega-media-center PC. Maybe a Linux MythTV, or Windows Vista MCE, or whatever, I haven’t really decided yet. Right now we have 3 or 4 VCRs hooked up in various rooms, and my wife tends to use a couple of them to record shows e
    PDC Week: Too Much Information! started by Jaykul
    This week is Microsoft’s PDC, and I, regrettably, am not there. So I’m following along from a distance, watching the keynotes live from the main site and reading a lot about Microsoft Azure Services Platform and in it’s various incarnations …%
    Vista Thumbnailer started by Jaykul
    I’ve been crazy busy the last few weeks, but I’ve been really rather distracted from my main project and it’s past time I got back to it. To really feel like I’ve moved on, I need to write a bunch of articles here and publish a couple of cool a
    Writing Cmdlets for the PowerShell Pipeline started by Jaykul
    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
    Be a responsible geek - encrypt your email (free) started by Jaykul
    Everyone should encrypt their emails … especially geeks, who can be expected to understand how little effort it would take for a rogue sysadmin or clever hacker to sniff your email on it’s way to it’s intended destination.

    Incidentally, if you&%2
    Window GUI Automation from PowerShell started by Jaykul
    Well, I am going to put this all on CodePlex tomorrow, but I promised a few people that I’d throw it up here for them yesterday, so I figured it’s past time to post it … without further ado. The Window Automation Snapin and it’s source shoul
    Windows - No Disk started by Jaykul
    So this goes in the “WORSE THAN FAILURE” bucket …

    I got an email from my dad this week wondering if I knew “What in the world is this message that keeps coming up every time we start Mom’s computer? It began appearing right aft
    PowerShell dig (nslookup) Cmdlet! started by Jaykul
    So, today someone came to #PowerShell on irc.freenode.net and asked how to do nslookup functionality natively in PowerShell, and nobody knew how … and then as the question evolved, it turned out that what they needed was to do a lookup for both MX and TXT records for a series
    Is PowerShell $ShellId too big a burden? started by Jaykul
    As you may know, I was one of the first developers who jumped on board and started working on an alternative PowerShell host (actually, I’m also the first to create a WPF-based host, and the first to create one that was open source … but enough about me).

    %
    Getting Started with PowerShell 2 - Part 3 started by Jaykul
    My “getting started” series ran out of steam a bit partly because I didn’t get much feedback on them — maybe you’re not interested, or maybe it wasn’t easy enough, or was just too confusing. In any case, I want to put
    Random News Digest … started by Jaykul
    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 beca
    NativeConsole.cs - Run console apps and get their output started by Jaykul
    To those of you who are not software developers: feel free to skip this post

    A while ago I wrote a little class for calling console apps from a .Net application, and I’ve been using it in several of my apps (most notably in PoshConsole) and it works great, but since
    Searching the PoshCode Repository started by Jaykul
    I’ve been having problems with the search functionality on the PoshCOde repository, and I just thought I’d throw this up here because I just now solved the biggest problem: ranking. Up until now, the results have not been returned in order of relevance —
    Register DLL - Calling RegSvr32 without MessageBoxes in PowerShell started by Jaykul
    Someone asked in the #PowerShell channel on FreeNode for a way to register dll’s (you know, old COM libraries for use in scripts or apps) ... specifically, they wanted to create a script that could register a bunch of Dll files, and know which ones passed or failed.

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    PowerShell XMPP (Jabber) Snapin started by Jaykul
    Someone asked on the PowerShell Community Forum about a way to use google talk or jabber to send messages from PowerShell, and I got carried away …

    The result is yet another CodePlex project: PoshXmpp. Basically I just took the event-based GPL library provided by AG Softw
    Separating SvcHost Services started by Jaykul
    I've finally figured out how to tell Windows which services to run together in one service host, and which I want in their own host.
    AutoMount Removable Drives in PowerShell v2 (CTP2) started by Jaykul
    Oisin (x0n) Grehan wrote a module for PowerShell 2 which uses the WMI ManagementEventWatcher and the new event-handling features of PowerShell 2.0 to automatically run scripts whenever you plug in or unplug a removable drive …. specifically, the AutoMount module runs New-PSDriv
    A cry for help with NHibernate … started by Jaykul
    I recently decided to bite the bullet and try using code-generating ORM in my projects instead of manually writing my own data access layer (DAL) with custom SQL and everything … and felt that after careful research into the current state of Linq-to-SQL and ADO Entities, etc. I
    New PoshCode features from July 2008 started by Jaykul
    So, there’s a few new features in the latest version of the PoshCode script module, and a few new features in the repository itself, including an embed feature, which I will demonstrate by embedding one here. Notice that the scripts on the site have an embed code, and it wil
    WPF From PowerShell - Select-Grid started by Jaykul
    After looking over the scripts I’ve pasted in the last few days it struck me that all of them load the UI from XAML — and for the most part, you can do pretty much whatever you need to do in WPF in pure PowerShell if you want to.

    To demonstrate this, I wrote a
    International Travelers Beware: We Will Seize Your Stuff started by Jaykul
    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 %2
    Setting Windows internet connection proxy from C# started by Jaykul
    I have a problem with my laptop where I connect to my home network and my work network, and my school network … and I have to use different proxy settings for Windows internet connection settings (which are used by virtually all .Net apps, including PowerShell) by default&%2
    Hacking the Natural 4000 keyboard started by Jaykul
    There have been a lot of blog posts around the internet about how to fix or change the “zoom” feature on the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 into a scroll up/down feature instead — my favorite is this one by Olivier Dagenais which suggested using an
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