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 ... (more)

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 Pamel... (more)

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... (more)

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 ... (more)

 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 recordi... (more)

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... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 ju... (more)

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 chara... (more)

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... (more)

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 PoshB... (more)

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... (more)

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 Un... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 Un... (more)

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 wha... (more)

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 T... (more)

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 Un... (more)

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 Th... (more)

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 U... (more)