Joe Pruitt

Fixes have been piling and I finally got my act together and released the latest version of the iRule Editor with support for BIG-IP version 11.0.  Here are a few things that are mentioned in the Updated to the v11.0.0.1 iControl.dll While this won’t be something you really “see” as a UI enhancement, it was needed as a basis for some of the upcoming features in the next release.  Be on the lookout for folders and session management in the near future. Support for v10+ format name/value pair data groups. Prior to BIG-IP version 10, we limited data groups to a single value (either string, address, or value).  In version 10, we expanded data groups to be in the form of a name/value pair.  This simplifies being able to do pattern matching with names to the desired match value with the values.  Now, for systems that support the values, there is a second edit box for the v... (more)

Building a Search Plugin for Windows Live Writer

So, a few weeks ago, Lori asked me if I’d be up for writing a plugin for Windows Live Writer to insert DevCentral related links into her blog posts.  For those that don’t know about Windows Live Writer and post to a blog regularly, you are doing yourselves a disservice by not checking it out (that is, if you are a Windows user). I’ve messed around with some Live Writer plugins in the past and figured this wouldn’t be too big a task.  In fact, Microsoft has made it brain-dead simple to build a plugin and hook into their UI.  Here’s the steps I took to build ours in C# with Visual... (more)

Introducing AskBing The PowerShell Bing Twitter Proxy

Last week I posted a PowerShell function library for Microsoft’s newly introduced search engine at Bing.com.  The function library was appropriately named PoshBing. There was a log of interest in the script so I quickly moved it off my blog and onto a CodePlex project under PoshBing. Working on the command line is fun and all, but since I spend a good portion of my time accessing my twitter account, I figured it would be a bit of fun to integrate it with my previously released PoshTweet PowerShell twitter library. So, after an hour or so of coding it up and creating the @askbing ... (more)

Unix To PowerShell - Tail

PowerShell is definitely gaining momentum in the windows scripting world but I still hear folks wanting to rely on Unix based tools to get their job done.  In this series of posts I’m going to look at converting some of the more popular Unix based tools to PowerShell. tail The Unix “tail” command that is used to display the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output.  With more than one file, precede each with a header giving the file name.  There is also a mode where it prints out the last “n” bytes in a file.  And for those that want to monitor changes to a file, there is t... (more)

Unix To PowerShell - Find

PowerShell is definitely gaining momentum in the windows scripting world but I still hear folks wanting to rely on Unix based tools to get their job done.  In this series of posts I’m going to look at converting some of the more popular Unix based tools to PowerShell. find The Unix “find” command searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locating files based on some user specific criteria.  By default, find returns all files below the current working directory.  It also allows you to perform an action to be taken on each matched file. In my PowerShell script ... (more)