It’s with great happiness that I announce the birth of our son (our 2nd child), Jadon!

Vitals
Born: 05/24/2006 @ 12:06 PM
Weight: 9 lbs 1 oz
Height: 21 1/2 in

We’ve all gone into survival mode (although the addition of a mother-in-law for a week or more helps me out with sleep). And yet I’m still finding time for some programming for fun!

I’ve been playing with Windows Powershell, and I can’t help but feel that all I can see is the tip of a very large iceberg! I’ve been having dreams of script-enabling our applications at work, and specifically our admin interfaces. Right now they do not have a programmable interface (no API, no built-in WMI, nothing). When we slowly begin re-writing many of them in .NET, I think this is going to be an angle I’m going to push for pretty hard.

To begin the dive into what I can and can’t do, I’ve decided to create a test/sample Powershell Provider for NewsGator, my online (and off-line) RSS reader. They have a web services API that exposes all of your data—hierarchical folders, subscriptions, posts, etc. When it’s done, the pathing and structure will work something like this:

get-childitem newsgator:\My Feeds\Best Blogs Ever\Software Development Journal\

Posted On Post
———————— ————
5/18/2006 11:35:43 AM Nokia E50
4/26/2006 2:38:16 PM Gaming and Application Development
4/6/2006 7:19:35 AM Metadata Attributes for Custom Controls
3/31/2006 8:47:22 AM Embedding Flash in C#

I’ll post the provider assembly here if/when I get it done!