Joe Pruitt

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 machine here in the office that will auto-record whenever that account is added to a conversation. We would occasionally have differences in audio levels between the callers so we incorporated the awesome The Levelator (from the Conversations Network) into the post production and we were set. A few weeks ago we broke through our one hundredth podcast and along with that milestone we de... (more)

Introducing PoshTwitPic – Use PowerShell To Post Your Images To Twitter Via TwitPic

Twitter, for those who don’t know about it, is a status updating service that is all the rage nowadays.  It’s popularity is primarily due to it’s simplistic nature.  You post a 140 character status (known as a “tweet”) about what you are doing.  You can also friend other folks to see what they are doing.  If you are still lost, read up on the entry in Wikipedia and you should get the gis... (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)

Introducing PoshBing – The PowerShell library for Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine

Microsoft released their new search engine called “Bing” at, aptly named, http://www.bing.com.  Microsoft is getting positive reviews from the likes of CNET, The Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch.  Instead of posting my review of the site, I’ll let you browse the above links to find out what the services is all about. What interested me about Bing is that Microsoft has released a full A... (more)

Unix To PowerShell – Cut

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. cut The Unix “cut” command is used to extract sections from each link of input.  Extraction of line segments can be done b... (more)