I got tagged by Kenny Kerr on Jan 3rd and by Kate Gregory on Jan 7th. I had to do some Googling to figure out what tagging is all about. Some people don’t seem to like this whole tagging concept as they feel it resembles chain mail. So if any of you are in that [...]
Entries from January 2007
It’s Tagging time in Microsoft blogger land
January 20th, 2007 · 5 Comments
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Another newbie mistake with PowerShell
January 20th, 2007 · No Comments
When you run an executable from the command line or from a script, the current directory will be the directory from which the executable or script is invoked. This behavior is consistent in both the old command prompt as well as in PowerShell. There is an exception though when you invoke a script, as I [...]
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A newbie mistake with PowerShell
January 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments
At work, I wrote a PowerShell script to automate our build process. I had to use the Visual SourceSafe command line tool to check out the files, make changes, and check them back in. The SS tool expected the ssdir environment variable to be set properly. I had just begun using PowerShell and I made [...]
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Lalu and ASCII 3 : One of the earliest programs I wrote
January 5th, 2007 · 5 Comments
I was reading Raymond Chen’s blog earlier today when I came across an entry where he talks about the ASCII character 7 which emits a beep on the command prompt. That brought back memories of one of the first programs I ever wrote on a computer. It was 1989 and some of us from Class [...]
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