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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:31 PM

Do X or Do Y. Yes or No?

I get what it's trying to say, but I'm at a loss as to what the Yes and No buttons will do here. I'm not sure this warrants WTF , but still. Actually, perhaps I'm wrong - Chris thinks it warrants it :) James Manning‎‎ [1:25 PM]: ---------------------------
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:51 AM

invoke-wiq.ps1 - "run" a .wiq file and get the results back

This request came in from an internal PS list. You can certainly make it fancier, and all it does now is invoke a WIT method, but hopefully you may find it of value. param($wiqfilename = $(throw 'must specify wiq filename' )) # get the fullpath to the
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Monday, April 07, 2008 9:36 AM

ExtensionMethods - flavorful syntactic sugar

A potential place to use an extension method cropped up in our team this week, and I gave feedback that I'd like to avoid it (for this case) because in this scenario, it enabled something that just felt wrong to me - working instance methods off null
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 12:32 PM

LocalSystem==root, LocalService==nobody

This one is, unfortunately, very easy to get wrong, and lots of people do, even those inside MSFT.  It came up when I was reading a recent post from the great Jeff Atwood , where he gets it backwards, thinking the Local System account is limited,
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