We’re in the process of evaluating several source control systems here at the office.  It’s a JOYOUS experience and I mean that… sorta.  Currently, we have a montage of files dumped into two SourceSafe repos. At this point, most of you are either...

Aside from PowerShell, I spend a bit of time day-to-day in Oracle’s SQL*Plus.  I’m slowly replacing my dependency on SQL*Plus with PowerShell scripts, functions, and such, but there are some core things that it’s just easier to bring up a...

Jeff Hicks’ TGIF post yesterday was a fun way to learn a bit of PowerShell (casting, working with dates, etc) and also add something valuable to your professional toolbelt—knowing when to go home. I tweaked the date output a bit to be more human...

As I continue to go script crazy (a bit) with PowerShell, I’ve noticed that my general scripts directory has grown quite a bit and is becoming a bit unmanagable.  Being a lover of neat and tidy, I wanted to separate ‘common’ scripts from ‘server-based’...

Motivated by Jeffery Hicks’ fun with my original “code-cat” version, I decided to fill in a few of the original updates I had floating in my head. The full code is available here via CodePaste.Net. First off, I loved the idea of colorizing the...