Scott Weinstein on .Net

Every once in awhile you wake up and take notice of a trend that's been bubbling on in the background for some time.  For me, today, that trend is the mainstreaming of nontraditional databases.

A couple of months ago I put together a quick PowerShell based stream reader for Coral8.  

A little something I cooked up last night

So my coworker, err boss :) seems to have started playing with Powershell, which is great.  It looks like his first foray into PowerShell development is a commandlet for tibco ems topics.  My initial feeling on this is that the benefits of commandlets syntax checking are not worth the tax of compiling and installing it. I would've used a native PowerShell approach. On the other hand, a full navigation provider...

It's no secret among my friends and family that I have RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) due to computer use. I haven't blogged about it because, well, it's personal, and because I didn't want to jeopardize any chance of future employment. But I periodically get asked for advice on how to deal with RSI pain and for whatever reason I'm feeling more confident about sharing this.

I've added a few more features to the Fuzzy Task List so that it's now approaching the point where it's usable. The code's been cleanup up and released to CodePlex.

A coworker asked me if I knew of any good books on .Net multithreaded programming.

A little over two years ago I stopped working on my startup company, and took a job with the big New York bank. The one product I managed to release, QuickSwitch, sat on hard drives without updates or product support.