IRC chat bot and monitor
Last weekend, I asked my wife if she could think of anything inappropriate or unusual to do with PowerShell. She came up with some good ideas and one of them was to write a chat/IM client. A full client takes time, so with a nod toward PowerShell’s administrative uses, I…
Updated get-bufferhtml
A while back, I posted an article: Console screen grabs in html. I fixed some bugs and added a couple of new features to the script get-bufferhtml.ps1, and have updated the article with examples. Enjoy!
Banners
In the old days, when you printed something out, you’d have to wander down to the print room and find your output in a stack of fanfold with the job name printed as a large banner on the top. I miss those days so I wrote a banner script to…
Convert images to text (ASCII art)
Recently, whilst messing with sprites and the Grrr framework, I got thinking about better graphics for games. As PowerShell is very slow at doing console atomic write operations, a game should really have fewer, larger sprites. I then thought about ASCII art, and wouldn’t it be great if PowerShell could…
Console screen grabs in html
[Updated 25 Jan 2007, well rewritten 🙂 ] Something I find myself doing a lot is getting a screen shot of a PowerShell console window and posting it some place. Unfortunately, its always a bitmap, and occasionally, I want it as formatted text. Now, the console is readable via $host.ui.rawui.GetBufferContents,…