Gradle Generate Release Notes from Git

I thought my ‘Gradle Generate Release Notes’ script might be useful for others, so here you go: If you are using the built in Gradle tool for Android Studio and you want to automagically generate release notes (or a list of commit messages) from Git then this little script might help (whilst it is pretty specific…

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PowerMeter from PowerShell

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…

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Google Results Ranking

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…

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Replace in Files for PowerShell

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…

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A couple of handy scripts

I have been updating some of my ‘magicwords’ for SlickRun recently. This a great tool for getting focus on a particular task. Instead of having to mess about opening folders, word documents, web sites all in preparation for a task you can enter one ‘magicword’ and have it do all…

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Todo.txt scripts

I’ve been spending a bit of time at LifeHacker recently, there is some pretty good tips over there (it’s where I found the PointUI for windows mobile 6). One of the posts I came across was this http://lifehacker.com/347269/lifehackers-exclusive-line-of-productivity-software. The Todo.sh command line tool caught my eye, as I always have…

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Flex your scripting fingers

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……

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New home backup regime

The king is dead, long live the king. Over the Christmas break the license for my beta of Windows Home Server ran out, so I needed an alternative backup / storage solution. I briefly considered Linux with some iSCSI software, Windows with DFS or FRS, or indeed forking out some…

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PowerShell Plus

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…

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