gdp's Comments

Max Schmeling : Cool Windows 7 Features

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:04:03 +0000

My 2c on the systray/notifications is that this new system doesn't help much at all. All it does is hide the systray icons. We've had hiding for years with XP, and it hasn't cut down on the number of annoying apps parking there at all, so this isn't going to help either. A lot of reporters are claiming that combined with "jump lists" there's now very little reason to park there, but I've decided I don't really buy it. I don't like the Ubuntu concept either. Ephemeral notifications that just go away and you can't click top take action? How is that useful? The only good thing about it is that they don't provide an option for developers to _make_ them stay visible. What windows needs is a system like www.tripthevortex.com/growl/"target="_blank">Growl, for windows where you control which notifications are allowed to pop, and every app that wants to show a notification has to basically register it ahead of time. Check it out! http://code.google.com/p/growl-for-windows/

Huddled Masses : PowerBoots: The tutorial walkthrough

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:41:10 +0000

Oh, I see. Yes: PowerBoots is slower to render due to it's dynamic code generation beneath the covers. That will probably continue to be true for a while. I've got some brain-cells working on ways to trade disk space and even RAM for snappier results (I already cache the forms you use, but only for the session -- so rerunning the same script should be faster). For the time being I think loading XAML via XamlReader is the fastest way to get a UI -- but PowerBoots is a lot more pipeline and console oriented ;)

Huddled Masses : PowerBoots: The tutorial walkthrough

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:32:56 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean about ISE. ISE is running in -STA mode by default -- since it's a WPF application, it has to.

Huddled Masses : PowerBoots: The tutorial walkthrough

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:49:34 +0000

Well, you're right about that last one. I'll post a new build in a few ... just change the line to: $ErrorList = @($ErrorList | ? { $_.InvocationInfo.BoundParameters.Name -ne "Grid" }) However, even with StrictMode on, I didn't get any errors on those other scripts -- certainly if $block isn't set, it should fail on the line before that, where it calls .Clear() -- but they should be set before they get used, because they get set as -OutVariable from the initialization ... and the event scriptblock doesn't get called until later. Honestly, I wrote the whole thing in strict mode originally, but I had to comment out the Set-StrictMode at the top, because it affects your event handlers and I certainly don't want to force everyone else to write in strict mode ;-)

Huddled Masses : WordPress Plugin - Textile 2.0

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:26:27 +0000

I use WPSuperCache, and haven't had any problems with the site lagging with changes, as far as I know ... honestly, I don't have any problem with the concept of storing both copies.

When I wrote this I couldn't think of a way to store the two copies and have the front end show one version and the back end show the other. I can think of a way now... maybe I'll recode it after all

Huddled Masses : PowerShell 2 CTP3 - First Impressions

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:28:06 +0000

That sir, is an extremely elegant (and sufficient) answer. I withdraw my complaints.

Huddled Masses : PowerBoots - Shoes for PowerShell

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:34:26 +0000

Yeah, I _kind of_ like the ruby syntax myself ... but I think the Pipeline syntax is a little more natural (and powerful) in PowerShell. Actually I'm wrestling with events at the moment, I'm not sure they work right against PowerShell when it's not in STA mode... The thing is, in WPF you don't have the limitations that Shoes has, so I can put an image into a button, for instance -- the ruby syntax doesn't seem to accommodate that very well -- it uses the same syntax (curly braces) for the default (click) handler on the button as for content on container controls. Of course, I might just be misinterpreting the significance ... my Ruby is still weak.

Huddled Masses : WordPress Plugin - Textile 2.0

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:54:30 +0000

It does not cache the output — there are already many plugins for caching full WordPress pages, and having the Textile plugin cache it’s output separately would mean storing two full copies of the article (in each markup: Textile and Html) so that you could edit it — because nobody’s ever gotten Html->to->Textile conversion working satisfactorily.

Huddled Masses : Window GUI Automation from PowerShell

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:11:43 +0000

I can try setting the COM flag in the next build, but I think the right answer here is: if you’re trying to automate windows from javascript, you’re using the wrong tool.

Huddled Masses : Convert-Xml with XSLT in PowerShell

Sat, 6 Dec 2008 05:03:02 +0000

yes, of course, sorry :)

Huddled Masses : Ubernyms: the ultimate text-replacement plugin

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:19:04 +0000

Yes, use the “English” option to only replace the first instance of an acronym, in accordance with normal English writing rules ;)

Huddled Masses : PowerShell Start-Demo 3

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:55:29 +0000

Hey, good point ... I updated to show the (now) current revision from the repository...

Huddled Masses : PowerShell and Hashtable oddities

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:48:25 +0000

Oh, common, I've got 23 active bugs just on PowerShell (and 16 closed or fixed) :-P I think I filed more than this against Modules, too ;)

Huddled Masses : TextileWrapper 2.0 and GeSHiWrapper 1.4

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:43:43 +0000

Not sure what you mean, Becky. as far as I know "clear." isn't textile markup ... have you been using some other specific implementation?

Huddled Masses : Clip.exe and the missing Paste.exe

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:09:49 +0000

Over-engineered as always :) They have a base class ClipboardCommandBase which has a bunch of methods that basically let them create a new thread, force it to STA mode, and then execute the code to get at the clipboard in there ... it's essentially the same trick as the PowerShell Team's PowerShell Execution Thread cmdlet, and as far as I know, it requires compiled code (at least, I haven't had a lot of luck messing with creating threads from script).

Huddled Masses : Of DekiWiki and PowerShell: A Script (Module)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:45:33 +0000

@Jason Archer: sure, why not :-) @Hal Rottenberg: I dono, it looks like your login worked. Hard to say. It definitely needs some work, but the tie in to Twitter and FriendFeed makes it worth trying for a bit... And *yes* it does have templates, and multi-language too The biggest problem *I* have with IntenseDebate ... is that most of _my_ existing comments use _textile_ markup, and now they all look broken. :-/ And my emoticons don't work either!

Huddled Masses : Clip.exe and the missing Paste.exe

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:27:06 +0000

Yep, thanks ... class name doesn't matter, since you're just going to run it as an exe, but I changed it anyway :-)

Huddled Masses : NativeConsole.cs - Run console apps and get their output

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:17:32 +0000

All that it implements is piping the standard pipelines (std::error, std::out, std::in), and graphical apps like edit and vim (and even MORE or LESS, in some case) use low level console APIs to directly control the contents of the buffer instead. The only way that I know of to mirror things like that into a .net app would be like screen scraping, by comparison: you’d be getting the contents of the buffer in a loop, and sticking them into your .net app (which would mean your .net app needs an interface like PSHostRawUserInterface http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.ma...with its SetBufferContents methods http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.ma...…