Powershell And 64 Bit Windows Helper Functions

Recently at work I started using Windows 2008 64 bit edition. Mainly for hyper-v but powershell also comes as part of the deal.

Regular Expression Limitations

I’m struggling with an introduction line to this blog post so I’m just going to go for bluntness:?? Regular expressions are limited and it’s important to understand these limitations. Ok, now that the premise is out of the way, lets go to a sample.

PInvoke and bool or should I say BOOL?

Boolean value types are a constant source of problems for people attempting to generate PInvoke signatures. It’s yet another case of managed and native types differing on size.

If it's not broken maybe you should fix it anyway

I know this is goes against conventional wisdom but it’s something I believe in. Every sufficiently large project has that section of code nobody wants to go near. The mere mention of it causes people to leave the room. It usually has a couple of properties

Stackoverflow A New Addiction

If you haven’t visited stackoverflow.com yet I encourage you to take a trip. It’s a great tag based newsgroup system. Check it out.