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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Powershell: Invoke-Expression and Tee-Object
So in my previous post I wrote about how I got around a problem with some standard error from Perforce. I want to take my work around function and pipe it into Tee-object so I can simultaneously display and log … Continue reading
Weird Powershell Standard Error Behavior
Ok I’m baffled. I am working on the previously mentioned powershell perforce backup script. I intentionally corrupted one of my database files to make sure I’m correctly catching the error. This ran me into a brick wall with trying to … Continue reading
Robocopy hates it when you end with a slash!
Robocopy is a pretty good utility for copyin/mirroring directories in windows. I use it a lot. I just spent a bit of time thinking powershell hated robocopy because I was having a lot of trouble calling a robocopy against a … Continue reading
PowerShell V1 doesn’t like to exit assignment functions
I was working on a fancy backup script for Perforce written in Powershell and I’ve definitely come across a bug in PowerShell V1. Take a look at this: function Usage() { write-host "Hey fool, you need to pass 1 paramter … Continue reading
New Laptop and Windows 7
I just took ownership of a Dell M4400 refurbished laptop. I was excited to bust it out, but my heart sank when I cracked the lid and saw the bezel above the keyboard wasn’t seated. I pushed down and it … Continue reading
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New FinalBuilder Custom Action: Check Required Variables
I’ve been using FinalBuilder for a while now. It’s icon based scripting language for creating build scripts. It reminds me me of a multimedia language I used a long time ago called IconAuthor. Initially I had resisted the tool because … Continue reading
VS2003 Web App Project and Subversion
Wow, this problem took way too long to track down. I was creating a build script for a legacy VS2003 Web App project. It is being migrated from Perforce and given an official build script. The command line build was … Continue reading
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TuneWiz Loosely Coupled, Easily Testable
A few years ago someone introduced me to the idea of unit testing with NUnit. Brilliant! Whenever I develop applications I inevitably write a lot of throw away code. Lots of code to verify assumptions. I would simply delete or … Continue reading
Bazaar TuneWiz Launchpad
Professionally I have been an administrator for CVSNT, Perforce, Vault, and Subversion. In my experience, the one area all these systems seem to fall flat is renaming when combined with merging/branching. All of those systems start to look long in … Continue reading
New Application TuneWiz
I’ve started a new project called TuneWiz. Problem: I have a very specific way I like to process and manage my music files. I’m warming on the iTunes application, but it doesn’t always work very well with the way I … Continue reading