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Parting words for dear friends
09 November 07 08:56 AM
I have a few thoughts that I'd like to express about Microsoft's software development before I go. Clearest code wins . Most developers at Microsoft haven't yet learned the incredible value of writing the clearest code possible. Once I saw a someone make
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Lastday
09 November 07 08:49 AM
Today is my last day at Microsoft. This morning I bike to work & shower. There's a lunch out with the team. In the afternoon there's an "exit interview". Then I leave early for a doctor's appointment, while I'm still insured. :-) Last night I tried
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How to make a bootable USB flash drive
24 October 07 03:25 PM
This can be useful with Windows Home Server in a number of ways. - If you are building your own WHS in a small case, and don't have a DVD drive, you can transfer the WHS software to a USB flash drive of WHS to install from. - If you are building your
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My Windows Home Server
17 October 07 04:34 PM
I built my own Windows Home Server box. You can buy some decent pre-built units, but I wanted to build my own. I wanted a small, quiet, low-power device. I was willing to compromise on performance & capacity to get it. I decided that my collection
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Windows Home Server on a virtual machine
17 October 07 04:17 PM
Here at Microsoft, when we talk about Windows Home Server, one of the things that comes up pretty often is a question about hosting WHS in a virtual machine under Virtual Server. Most often people want this because they already have one always-on machine
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Screenshot of Select-GraphicalFilteredObject.ps1 in action
12 September 07 12:53 PM
A picture would be helpful in understanding what this script does. dir $pshome | Select-GraphicalFilteredObject.ps1 -title "Jay's blog is the best!" gives this UI:
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Powshell GUI for selecting objects in a pipeline ("Select-GraphiphicalFilteredObject.ps1")
12 September 07 12:39 PM
This is an enhanced version of a script from Lee Holmes' book Windows PowerShell Cookbook (O'Reilly). The original script takes a pipeline & presents a GUI that lets you select which elements to pass on to the next step in the pipeline. That's unchanged,
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Domain-Specific Languages
19 June 07 09:57 AM
I'm quite attracted by the idea of domain-specific languages, but so far I haven't found a satisfactory way to create them. For a while I was writing a lot of MSBuild tasks. I found the programming model for a MSBuild tasks to be a bit awkward. You have
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PowerShell polyglot
26 April 07 10:20 AM
Here's an example of a CMD script that is implemented in PowerShell. @@:: This prolog allows a PowerShell script to be embedded in a .CMD file. @@:: Any non-PowerShell content must be preceeded by "@@" @@setlocal @@set POWERSHELL_BAT_ARGS=%* @@if defined
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Is Virtual Memory dead?
19 April 07 12:36 PM
To figure out whether virtual memory makes sense, you have to look at the following factors: RAM size Disk size RAM speed Disk speed It's the relationship between these values that matter. (All of these are considered in the context of a fifth factor:
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A formula for a home platform
28 March 07 01:16 PM
In Picking a home PC platform I described my requirements for my ideal home PC platform. I've put together a "system formula" - a list of parts to use when building a machine. The first decision to make is to select a CPU socket. This in turn confines
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Picking a home PC platform
12 March 07 10:42 AM
In my home, I a bunch of computers. ENVY - used by everyone, has the best CPU, RAM, video card, monitor, etc. WRATH - alternate PC for when ENVY is busy. Usually running Age of Mythology for my 5yo. PRIDE - sits OFF most of the time, but is available
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properties vs. fields... again
08 February 07 01:14 PM
Eric Gunnerson just posted Properties vs public fields redux... It's no secret that I agree with Eric whole-heartedly on this matter. I've posted about this before as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/jaybaz_ms/archive/2004/04/29/123333.aspx . Fundementally,
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Controlling Virtual Server through Microsoft PowerShell
22 January 07 01:26 PM
In his post by the same name , Ben describe a series of steps required in order to manipulate Virtual Server from PowerShell. I'm still a PowerShell novice, so I decided to use this problem as an opportunity to see if I could make things a little easier.
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export environment variables from CMD to PowerShell
17 January 07 04:52 PM
If you want to use PowerShell, but already have a CMD script that you want to keep, and that CMD script sets environment variables, you're in a pickle. Now I like pickles of all kinds, but Lee can help you get out of this one, with a script that exports
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