I love my news.  For whatever reason, I find catching up on the world to be one of the most relaxing and rewarding things you can do in your spare time.  Even though I like to read the news, I rarely read a physical newspaper or magazine or...

As I said in a previous post, I've started to explore the wild world of XNA . XNA just released version 3, which allows you to make games for Windows, Xbox, and Zune. The SDK is free, and you can download it here . The last post introduced Get-Font ,...

I've started to explore the wild world of XNA . XNA just released version 3, which allows you to make games for Windows, Xbox, and Zune. The SDK is free, and you can download it here . It comes with a nifty little platformer game (think a 3-screen Super...

Benko just posted a Visual Studio Tips & Tricks listing.  It's missing on of my favorites, which a coworker on the PowerShell team, Ibrahim Abdul Rahim, showed me: In a couple of circumstances, you'll see a red squiggle (like a syntax error)...

It’s the weekend.  I love my video games, and I really love my xBox 360.  I’ve had one since just after they first came out, and I’ve slowly but surely accumulated about 70 physical games for the 360 made by major producers.  I remember...

The first post in this series was learning to crawl. I introduced Get-Web , which allows you to use System.Net.Webclient to download web sites in a variety of ways. The next post was learning to walk. I showed us Get-MarkupTag , which helps coerce parts...

The first post about scripting the was a lot of waxing philosophical but little about how to extract data and give it form. There are several approaches, with various difficulties. I could build a full HTML parser and walk though object models, or I could...

Several of the last posts have tackled how to take the wild world of data and start to turn it into PowerShell objects, so that it’s easier to make heads or tails out of it.  Once all of that data is in a form that PowerShell can use more effectively...