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Reflections on 2 Years at ThoughtWorks
I cannot believe I've been at ThoughtWorks for 2 years now! My colleague Aaron Erickson has written an excellent writeup on why (work at) ThoughtWorks . I couldn't agree more! Reading another colleague's post a while ago inspired me to write a little retrospective of my own. Thanks Rose, you are wise...
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My Developer Resolutions for 2012
An interesting thing about 2011 is that my resolutions from earlier became quite prominent. Given that 8 months of 2011 were spent on a large account with less technical focus, I'm amazed at some of the technical things that I've done. Reflections on 2011 and carry over from 2010: Mouseless Computing...
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Simplifying Ruby Installation in Windows
The one thing that has always annoyed me with installing ruby on Windows is that at some point in time I always need to setup the DevKit because I want to install gems that require native extensions. Also, I want the ability to switch between different versions of ruby. Introducing Yari yari is a tool...
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The Madness Must Stop! - Powershell Package Management
As a publisher for a few Powershell modules I'm getting frustrated by the lack of standarization in the community on how to support versioning, deployment and conventions within Powershell module distribution. All I can find is rather adhoc mechanisms of sharing poorly written code with the "use...
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Powershell BDD Testing - Pester Screencast
A few months ago I posted a simple tutorial on how to use Pester (a powershell bdd testing framework) . I'm starting to practice the making of screencasts so I thought I would add some audio/visual to the blog post. I start rambling in the last 5 minutes so I won't feel insulted if you stop paying attention...
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My Custom PowerShell Profile
I've finally dived into the world of creating screencasts! I didn't think a blog post would demo the features well enough. In the screencast I go from having the default PowerShell profile to one that I can update with a single command and is stored on github. The installation gets its inspiration from...
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Adopting PsGet for Powershell Module Management
For a while now I've been waiting for something that can be as close to ruby gems as possible for PowerShell . For a while I thought Nuget was the way but it's tight coupling to Visual Studio made it feel like it wasn't quite the right fit for PowerShell. Mike Chaliy has made probably what could be called...
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Sled Island 2011 Schedule
This was hard to figure out! This schedule isn't necessarily going to be followed so you'll have to follow my twitter account ( @ScottMuc ) to see where I actually end up as the nights progress. Friday: 6:30pm dinner at Palomino with friends 8:00pm Sun Wizard @Palomino 9:30pm The Intelligence @Twisted...
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Pester - BDD For The System Administrator
* Note: this post best viewed in a fluid layout (look at the top right, beside the colour selectors) due to the wide lines in the terminal examples Hi there and welcome to my demo of Pester , a BDD style testing framework for Powershell. The creation of Pester came out of the desire to test some build...
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