Wes' Puzzling Blog

WMI is a powerful tool and I have just recently discovered some of its power. Previously I though the only way to detect process creation was by creating a windows hook but now I know it is fairly simple to due with .NET using the Windows.Management namespace. Below is simple ProcessWatcher class that has events that are triggered when a process is created, deleted or modified. Enjoy!

As part of my attempt to get in better shape I've decided to purchase a pedometer. I'm a numbers kind of guy and if I see the numbers every day then I'm hoping it will help motivate me to get the suggested 10,000 steps a day. The only problem is I'm trying to decide which pedometer is best suited for my needs.

Jim Gries has posted a number of excellent "Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools". Two that I've found very useful and use quite a bit now in my day-to-day debugging are:

For all those people posting Monad scripts to their blogs you might be interested in making your scripts look better by using CodeHTMLer. Just paste in your code script and select MSH as the language and it will output some stylized HTML that can easily be copied into your blog post. Of course you can use it to post code for most languages. Its what I use to colorize all my code samples.

Last week I talked about how I wanted to write a script to convert my doskey macros into Monad functions. I used this opportunity to learn about writing scripts in Monad. I must say I'm impressed so far, it has been pretty easy to pickup. The one thing that I kept getting burned by and that I don't care for much is the comparison operators. I don't like using -lt, -gt, etc, I'm too used to <, >. At anyrate here is the code (keep in mind that I'm new to Monad scripting so if I did something wrong go easy on me ;) with that said I'm open to suggestions).

Lee Holmes posted a bunch of good Monad links so I figured I would also post them for others and also for my future reference. Thanks Lee!

I've finally got some time to start playing with Monad (Microsoft's new command shell). If you are interested the Monad blog has links to download Monad beta2.

Finally after 3 months on the waiting list I got my Prius.