Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Guide how to easy screw up your git repository

  20 Sep, 2012

  A real incident where a wrong-branch git reset --hard corrupted a release branch, with recovery steps for the team.

• PowerShell + XAML => GUI

  20 Sep, 2012

  How to build a WPF GUI window in PowerShell using XAML, with a note on the STA threading requirement for PowerShell 2.

• PowerShell Get-Content vs _System.IO.File___ReadAllText

  20 Sep, 2012

  Difference between Get-Content (returns array of lines) and ReadAllText (returns full string), with alternatives for both PowerShell versions.

• WTF Exception.ToString() and FaultException

  20 Sep, 2012

  FaultException inner details are silently dropped by Exception.ToString(); an extension method restores the full fault message.

• PowerShell Sort-Object and Hashtables

  18 Sep, 2012

  Explains why Sort-Object -Property fails on PowerShell hashtables and how to sort them correctly using a script block.

• posh-git _ WARNING_ Could not find ssh-agent

  18 Sep, 2012

  How to suppress the posh-git ssh-agent warning by commenting out Start-SshAgent in the profile script.

• Copy PowerShell command into clipboard

  17 Sep, 2012

  One-liner to copy the last executed PowerShell command to the clipboard using Get-History and clip.

• Dropbox and Symbolic Links

  16 Sep, 2012

  Explains how to sync arbitrary folders with Dropbox by creating symbolic links using Link Shell Extension.

• Git Extensions from console

  16 Sep, 2012

  How to launch Git Extensions GUI from the command line on Windows by creating a custom git alias script.

• Git and typos

  16 Sep, 2012

  Shows how to enable git help.autocorrect to automatically fix and run mistyped git commands.