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Run PowerShell as the internal shell within Emacs. Note: there's a good link on here to a PowerShell script syntax file, and lots of .net-related emacs content...

Connect-WebService allows you to connect to a remote webservice via it's WSDL service description file, and generates the web service proxy for you -- like wsdl.exe would, but straight into memory in PowerShell!

Connect to WebDAV, FTP, Amazon S3, FTPS, or SFTP servers through a virtual drive which is a full file-system drive which works in DOS, PowerShell, etc.

See and manage file extensions, associations, and actions on Windows!

dumpglyphs turns a TrueType font or a console font into a PNG image containing the glyphs, plus a font information file ... plus ... ImgFont.js, a JavaScript base class to display text with the PNG-fonts

If you're a Wordpress Content Management System user, and you would like to make your page titles SEO friendly without installing any plug-ins or modifying your website too much, then this article might be for you. All it requires is a few lines of PHP in your header.php file.

FileToIconConverter, a MultiBinding converter that retrieves icons for file names...

A slick screenshot app that can easily take a shot of a region, a window, a control, or the full desktop ... and includes a color picker and ruler, plus global system hotkeys and automatic saving to file

This handy little app provides all the features of PowerMenu, plus the file-dialog quick-menus that PowerDesk's Dialog Helper used to do, plus a whole pack of extras: minimize-to-floating icon, a virtual desktops plugin, etc, Seriously useful stuff.

Lets you find and terminate the processes that are using a specific file...

* Line ruler - Places a "ruler" highlight across your current line * Indentation guide - Draws a vertical bar in the editor indicating the indentation level of the current line. * Auto-copy selection - Copy text to the clipboard when selected with the mouse (and paste on middle-click) Plus Command Spy, File Explorer, Data Object Analyzer, and SLOC Report

A walk through of how to install Windows to a virtual hard disk image (VHD) from scratch, instead of a full partition. No VPC was invoked in the making of this post ... just DISKPART a virtual disk into a file, and install.

Etoys has become a great branch of Squeak (it branched from 3.8, but in the course of its development for OLPC, it has gained some nice fonts and a nice toolbar, among other things.) It behaves in a slightly more mainstream way, in that Etoys users no longer save the Etoys images, just save the project file (which is referred to in help as "Keep a current project"). The Squeak image itself restarts pristine and untouched each time it is restarted. \n\nSqueakers and developers who want to save their whole image (window positions, preferences, the lot, in classic Smalltalk style) will want the save command in the World menu. Bert Freudenberg explains where the World menu is hidden.

Links are getting shorter, information smaller and here's another smaller blogroll avatar... the favicon. Google has an online PNG converter for favicon.ico files in the root directory of a domain. eg. http://google.com/favicon.ico Here's a realtime script to help get the favicon link.

A very nice graphical front-end for 'du', in Common Lisp. I have tried it - it is trivial to use with SBCL. Version 0.3 works very well on the native Linux filesystem of my laptop, and on its VFAT (Windows) filesystem, provided I mount it with iocharset

This editor is designed to edit souce code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlighting ...

It is always important to know how to submit a bug report. It doesn't help that every community has different expectations, and every bug tracking system has a different layout. In Squeak, the learning curve is long but shallow. In this 23 minute screencast, Ken Causey starts with some bug hunting tips, and explains how to make a Smalltalk changeset file that is numbered, documented and compressed. He then shows how to submit this to the Mantis server on bugs.squeak.org.

Certain kinds of deployment are much more efficiently achieved with virtual servers. This article is a simple and almost hands-on introduction to the way a Sun Cloud deployment can be scripted or have another automated front end for deployment.

iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library to C# for the .NET platform. iText# allows you to generate PDF files on the fly...