For the past year (2010) I had been using SportyPal – an application for tracking exercise (runs mainly for me). It has mobile apps (iPhone, Android, WinMob etc.) that do the actual tracking and then upload the data to their website where you can view history, graphs, charts, records etc. It really is neat, and [...]
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PowerMeter from PowerShell
October 1st, 2010
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I was trying to get my Home Energy Monitor application working to Google PowerMeter this evening. To get things moving quickly I decided to prototype in PowerShell (as you the full sugary goodness of the .Net framework for free). Here’s the details on accessing PowerMeter from PowerShell… Although it is called Google PowerMeter, it is [...]
Generate sitemaps using PowerShell
January 15th, 2010
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I was discussing ‘googlability’ – a new word I made up meaning ‘the ability to find via Google’ – of our knowledgebase with one of the technical guys at work.It seems that we seldom get matches in Google searches (and the built in search is somewhat lame) – I was quite surprised with the fact [...]
Google Results Ranking
June 3rd, 2009
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Disclaimer: Screenscraping results like this probably contravening Google’s Terms of Use (or something) and I do not advocate that you do it – this is purely hypothetical, if I did want to do it, this is how I would go about it Further Disclaimer: The results page formats could change at any time and may [...]
Replace in Files for PowerShell
July 6th, 2008
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A while back I restructured my website so that this blog no longer started at the root, instead starting from /blog. This was so that I could introduce some other web apps and have a subfolder for projects etc. One of the pains of this restructure was modifying all the links – I thought I [...]
Tweet from PowerShell
April 1st, 2008
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I have been playing with Twitter recently and thought it might be neat to see if I could post a ‘tweet’ from PowerShell. There is a great Google Group that discusses their API. The APIs are all REST based and really easy to use – the only complexity is that you need HTTP Basic Authentication [...]
Flex your scripting fingers
January 7th, 2008
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It’s time to flex those scripting fingers and get your brain warmed up – The 2008 Scripting Games are coming. Put a note in your calendars – February 15-March 3, 2008. Stay tuned to the Scripting Games Tips for some (possible) hints and useful techniques that the tasks may involve… GEO 51.4043197631836:-1.28760504722595
PowerShell Plus
December 17th, 2007
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One of my colleagues switched me on to PowerShell Plus and I’m loving it. Code editor, snippets, values of variables, logging tools and much more, including a really neat feature called ‘MiniMode’ (see the toolbar icon at the extreme right in the image. This ‘MiniMode’ closes all toolbars/toolwindows except the main console but also makes [...]
Immersing myself in PowerShell
February 26th, 2007
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PowerShell has been around for some time now, what with betas and CTPs. For (the released version of) Vista it became available a month or so ago. It’s been on my ‘must get to grips with’ list for a while now and I’ve kinda been following some blogs about it, slowly getting a little knowledge [...]
