By Joe Pruitt Fixes have been piling and I finally got my act together and released the latest version of the iRule Editor with support for BIG-IP version 11.0. Here are a few things that are mentioned in the Updated to the v11.0.0.1 iControl.dll While this won’t be something you really “see” a... Oct. 21, 2011 05:30 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt Sometimes it takes a disaster to realize the importance of backing up your digital information. I’ve had the same computer running at home for nearly 6 years. Like many others out there, I store everything on it: family pictures, videos, music, financial records, tax returns, … The ... Oct. 18, 2010 02:47 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt For the last few months I’ve been negligent on my regular blogging. I can come up with a bunch of excuses but it all boils down to feeling that I’ve got something meaningful to say. I’m not the type to just blog for the sake of blogging but I’ve begun to miss the great feedback I rec... Oct. 11, 2010 01:52 PM EDT Reads: 103 |
By Joe Pruitt So, a few weeks ago, Lori asked me if I’d be up for writing a plugin for Windows Live Writer to insert DevCentral related links into her blog posts. For those that don’t know about Windows Live Writer and post to a blog regularly, you are doing yourselves a disservice by not checking... Sep. 7, 2010 04:43 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt I recently received an internal iRule email and one of our folks created a search provider for FireFox to search DevCentral. Lori quickly responded and asked if we could get this posted to DevCentral. Why not if it will help the community so I took a look. Then it occurred to me tha... Jul. 21, 2010 05:21 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt For those who of you that are having problems with logging client addresses in their server logs because you are running your web servers behind a proxy of some sort, never fear, your solution is here. For those that don't, I already discussed in my previous posts about what the X-Fo... Dec. 23, 2009 04:00 PM EST |
By Joe Pruitt Those who know me, can attest that I'm a early adopter when it comes to social networking systems. The latest one I've been getting into lately is FourSquare.com. FourSquare.com describes itself as 50% friend finder, 30% social city guide, and 20% nightlife game. They include ways... Oct. 5, 2009 03:50 PM EDT |
By 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 whi... Sep. 25, 2009 05:24 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt For those of you who don't know what Delicious.com is (yes it's the same as del.icio.us), I'll just borrow their overview from their getting started page: Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage, and share Web pages all in one place. With ... Sep. 21, 2009 11:45 AM EDT |
By 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 li... Aug. 27, 2009 01:57 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt Ok, so Pete did his best Weird Al impersonation the other day by throwing up his take-off on Men Without Hat’s “Safety Dance”. His version “Encryption Dance” is brilliant and we decided to highlight it in this weeks podcast with a challenge out to Pete to give us a live recording of ... Aug. 21, 2009 12:39 AM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt 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 ... Aug. 19, 2009 02:16 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt Come one, come all to our third edition of the iRule. Do You? Contest. For those that don't know, an iRule is F5's embedded packet scripting language allowing you to gain full control over how your applications flow across the network. There are hundreds of iRules in our iRule CodeSh... Aug. 12, 2009 03:46 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt It’s been a while since I posted an update for the iRule Editor so I figured I’d spend some time this week polishing off some of the bugs and enhancements reported on the iRule Editor forum over the past year or so.
So, I can go on and on about the history, but I figure you all just wa... Aug. 5, 2009 05:45 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt Shrinking your Url’s is all the rage nowadays. If you are on Twitter, then odds are you have used one. Despite CodingHorror’s distaste for them in his recent blog post on Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web since 2002, they are a fact of life when we live in a world of 140 character s... Jun. 19, 2009 02:04 PM EDT |
By Joe Pruitt 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 w... Jun. 17, 2009 08:31 PM EDT Reads: 655 |
By Joe Pruitt  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.
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By Joe Pruitt 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... Jun. 3, 2009 04:02 PM EDT Reads: 1,564 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. md5 The Unix “... May. 18, 2009 11:08 AM EDT Reads: 750 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. touch The Unix... May. 7, 2009 01:09 PM EDT Reads: 714 |
By Joe Pruitt 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 “... May. 6, 2009 12:48 PM EDT Reads: 1,024 |
By Joe Pruitt Every now and then we get some interesting email addressed to us here on the DevCentral team. Most of the time they are not blog worthy, but yesterday one came in that I thought I needed to share. Instead of trying to provide some witty commentary, I’m just going pass along what was... May. 5, 2009 10:23 AM EDT Reads: 399 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. basename The U... May. 4, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 758 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. cat The Unix “... May. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 872 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. dirname The Un... Apr. 30, 2009 01:07 PM EDT Reads: 762 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. find The Unix ... Apr. 29, 2009 02:44 PM EDT Reads: 1,781 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. factor The Uni... Apr. 27, 2009 10:53 AM EDT Reads: 1,006 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. seq The Unix “... Apr. 24, 2009 02:37 PM EDT Reads: 1,208 |
By Joe Pruitt 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 “... Apr. 23, 2009 11:23 AM EDT Reads: 786 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. tail The Unix ... Apr. 22, 2009 04:38 PM EDT Reads: 2,340 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. fold The Unix ... Apr. 20, 2009 02:56 PM EDT Reads: 687 |
By Joe Pruitt Tom Hearn over at NerdyHearn.com was working with SharePoint and needed to get at the Public Key Token from various assemblies to be added to the Safe Assembly list in the SharePoint configuration. He posted the code for a Cmdlet that would, given the path to an assembly, extract the ... Apr. 17, 2009 04:05 PM EDT Reads: 412 |
By Joe Pruitt If you’ve ever had to diagnose something with your Windows system, odds are you’ve come across the Sysinternals product suite by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. Their PsTools suite has saved my behind many times and since they regularly make updates to the tools, it’s kind of a ... Apr. 17, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 371 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. nl The Unix “n... Apr. 16, 2009 12:38 PM EDT Reads: 544 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. wc The Unix “w... Apr. 15, 2009 12:05 PM EDT Reads: 1,461 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. head The Unix ... Apr. 14, 2009 12:52 PM EDT Reads: 895 |
By Joe Pruitt 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. which For this... Apr. 10, 2009 06:38 PM EDT Reads: 529 |
By Joe Pruitt Yes it's true, but it's not exactly what you would think... In mid-2007, Google acquired the "one phone number for all your phones" startup GrandCentral Communications. The concept is that you register to get a single phone number that you'll be able to keep for life. The magic of G... Mar. 20, 2009 05:13 PM EDT Reads: 379 |
By Joe Pruitt Last Thursday night Hal (@halr9000) and Jon (@jonwalz) over at the PowerScripting Podcast had me on their weekly podcast for episode #61. Hal and Jon are both highly esteemed in the PowerShell community and I caught their attention with my recent PowerShell ABC's blog series. Durin... Mar. 3, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 295 |
By Joe Pruitt A few weeks ago I was scanning through my daily PowerTips from PowerShell.com and came across one that covered Using COM Objects to Say Hi. In this tip, they describe how to use the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) to convert text to play through the the windows audio system. Of course I ... Feb. 26, 2009 06:17 PM EST Reads: 693 |
Joe Pruitt is a Sr. Strategic Architect at F5 Networks working with Network and Software Architects to allow them to build network intelligence into their applications.
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