Archive for the ‘thinking out loud’ Category

Willmar Developers Guild?

Earlier this week I came across a developers guild for the Twin Cities area and it got me wondering if there was one around here Willmar. The only groups I think would be like this one are the clubs for certain Ridgewater courses or maybe the Willmar Lakes Area Young Professionals. While these groups are [...]

Trouble in Willmar: Commentary

While reading the comments on the WCTrib site people have made on the recent McDonald’s incident, I’m quite alarmed how racy the issue has become. A fact that saddens me, as talk like that only leads to more hate and loathing. However in the slew of comments discussing ethnics of the various people involved, one [...]

Learning the nuances of Visual Studio

I’m starting to use Visual Studio and programming more and more in C#. Mostly this is because I’m finding that creating tools with scripts for my end users to be too cumbersome for them to use. PowerShell scripts are not easily launched by a double click, you need to allow scripts in the first place [...]

Scripted forms

I’ve known using Windows.Forms with Powershell for some time, but never really dove into it until recently. One of the reasons for this is that I don’t like the idea of making tools that can’t be picked apart by others in my department. Another reason is that unless your form is just to make the [...]