Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• git core bug

  11 Jun, 2014

  Announcement that a git core pull request fixing ANSI sequences in non-terminal output was accepted upstream.

• PowerShell Registry Set-ItemProperty gotchas

  9 Jun, 2014

  Documents undocumented Type parameter behavior in Set-ItemProperty and how to correctly read and write typed registry values.

• PowerShell 3 - Attempting to perform the InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the FileSystem provider failed

  5 Jun, 2014

  Fix for a PowerShell 3 startup error caused by disconnected network drives, resolved via a registry key change.

• Windows Task Scheduler silently fails

  5 Jun, 2014

  Diagnoses why a Task Scheduler task silently fails when run without a logged-on user due to unavailable mapped network drives.

• NUnit issue

  4 Jun, 2014

  Bug report for NUnit console failing when error messages contain invalid XML characters such as null bytes.

• The best debugging technique - inverse breakpoint

  2 Jun, 2014

  Using Debugger.Launch and Debugger.Break in C# code to attach a debugger to hard-to-reach processes like Visual Studio plugins.

• git core and GitExtensions bugs

  2 Jun, 2014

  Summary of bug fixes and pull requests contributed to git core and GitExtensions for ANSI sequences and file history issues.

• Task Scheduler Event IDs

  15 May, 2014

  Reference table of Windows Task Scheduler event log IDs and their corresponding task lifecycle categories.

• C__PowerShell Clipboard Watcher

  30 Aug, 2013

  Implements a clipboard change watcher in PowerShell using inline C# with P/Invoke and WinForms WM_CLIPBOARDUPDATE.

• PowerShell scripts and "Pattern Main"

  21 Aug, 2013

  Pattern for structuring PowerShell scripts with a Main function so core logic appears at the top before helper functions.