Aaron Lerch

PowerShell doesn’t include the ability to do a mass search-and-replace. As I was just looking for a good way to do this, it so happened that at around the same time someone asked the question in the newsgroups, and got a good answer from Keith Hill.
I took what Keith wrote, and sort of consolidated […]

Our internal custom tracing library was recently updated, and I’ve been working on doing some extensive search-and-replaces to incorporate the changes. At first, I thought I could use Visual Studio to quickly do the bulk of it with it’s handy Find and Replace in Files, even with it’s “bastardized syntax“. But I ran […]

I guess v0.0.001 wasn’t inaccurate for the version of “Powershell Intellisense” I posted a day or so ago. I’ve since found a few bugs (i.e. it doesn’t display in the correct location if your window buffer contains data outside the currently displayed window–in most cases you won’t be able to see it at all), and […]

Update: I’ve posted an updated version to go along with /\/\o\/\/’s PowerTab 0.9 release, including one important bug fix.
A day or so ago I posted about an implementation of PowerShell “intellisense” I was working on, based on /\/\o\/\/’s really great PowerTab extension for TabExpansion. Well, after a few more hours of work and testing, […]

Recently I’ve been thinking about Intellisense (and similar features), and the impact it’s had on software development. I find that I can live without it for the few common tasks I perform all the time, but anything beyond that a lack of Intellisense is a serious productivity killer. It’s amazing how much more […]