Minor gripes
A number of little things bother me about PowerShell, and I’d just like to outline them here. Adding to arrays According to get-help about_array : “You can append an element to an existing array by using the += operator. When the operator is used on the array itself, it appends…
Grrr!
Despite the title, this is not a rant 🙂 Grrr is a pet project of mine that came after the exploratory work with psinvaders. I was somewhat dissatisfied with myself for doing so much without seeing how else it could be done, especially with respect to drawing of images, animation,…
Space Invaders
In a previous post I said that I always like to try to write space invaders in every language that I learn. Well, PowerShell in the standard Windows console window looked like a great candidate so I set about the task in my spare time. My colleagues Richy King, Nik…
PNG and Internet Explorer
Oh dear, it seems that even though this is 2007, the most popular web browser on the planet (IE Will change it over to olde worlde JPEGs later, but in the mean time, if you’re using Windows, do yourself a favour and install Firefox or IE7. Update: I’m not entirely…
PowerShell is slow
I was going to start the new year with a positive note, but then I thought, lets get a PS1 pet hate out of the way first. PowerShell is slow. There are many ways to demonstrate this, but for this case I’m going to use a small snippet of code…