PowerShell puts the fun back in scripting and it’s horrfying but every now and again I’m forced to write a good old batch script. Batch is good enough to get most jobs done it’s just not as “fun” as PowerShell. Recently it came up in an internal alias about how to detect if you’re running on Vista from a batch script.

Writing a proper serialization mechanism is ofter very difficult. The problem is most people don’t realize this because it just works in their application and .Net makes it very easy to do. A lot of the problem is not understanding what factors you need to consider when writing a serializer.

Web Application projects are a new project type in Visual Studio 2005 SP1. It almost all of the niceties of the web projects with the semantics of being contained within a class library project. I like the feel of them and do all of my web app development in them now.

An item I try to avoid in any API I create are methods which …

Here’s a handy PowerShell function I used to determine if I’m currently running as an Administrator in PowerShell