Joe Pruitt

This week marks a major milestone for us here at DevCentral: we have reached our 100th weekly Podcast!  To celebrate, we are going to try some new formats and the first one of these is user interaction!  Starting today, we will be streaming our podcasts live on UStream.tv so you can listen in while we are recording.  Don't worry, we will still be archiving the audio versions on DevCentral, iTunes, etc. UStream.tv gives us a few benefits.  First, we can broadcast video along with the audio.  At this point we are unable to syndicate everyone's webcam from our team but this gives us some options for the future.  Another benefit here is that you are welcome to comment in our chat session as well if you feel the need to chime in or ask a question.  We really want to move our... (more)

X-Forwarded-For Log Filter for Windows Servers

For those that don't know what X-Forwarded-For is, then you might as well close your browser because this post likely will mean nothing to you… A Little Background Now, if you are still reading this, then you likely are having issues with determining the origin client connections to your web servers.  When web requests are passed through proxies, load balancers, application delivery cont... (more)

Introducing AskBing The PowerShell Bing Twitter Proxy

Last week I posted a PowerShell function library for Microsoft’s newly introduced search engine at Bing.com.  The function library was appropriately named PoshBing. There was a log of interest in the script so I quickly moved it off my blog and onto a CodePlex project under PoshBing. Working on the command line is fun and all, but since I spend a good portion of my time accessing my twitt... (more)

Unix To PowerShell – Tac

PowerShell is definitely gaining momentum in the windows scripting world but I still hear folks wanting to rely on Unix based tools to get their job done.  In this series of posts I’m going to look at converting some of the more popular Unix based tools to PowerShell. tac The Unix “tac” command will allow you to see a file line-by-line backwards.  It will print each record in reverse orde... (more)

Turn Your Podcast Into an Interactive Live Streaming Experience

The folks here on the DevCentral team have been producing a weekly podcast for a while now.  Trying to keep our budget low, we opted to copy what some other podcasters were doing by making use of Skype for our audio communication and found a great little Skype add-on called Pamela which creates high-quality WAV files from Skype conversations. We created a dedicated Skype account on an old... (more)