Linked by fran on Sat 24th Dec 2011 10:08 UTC
"The new Windows PowerShell is coming. Actually, Microsoft has just launched a Community Technology Preview of Windows PowerShell version 3, although the final version 3 probably won’t ship until it comes out with Windows 8. It also will be available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The CTP will install on those OSes."
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Member since:2005-07-06
The whole ecosystem is not really CLI oriented. Doing simple work inside the CLI is hard because many basic tools (e.g. good text editors, text-based browsers) are lacking.
Your point about text-based browsers could be valid, but all of the major text-based browsers have been ported to Windows. We just don't use them because the many GUI browsers on the platform are much better. But you are completely off about the text editors. There are dozens of programming editors for Windows, including ports of most of the ones available for other platforms, even the text-based ones.
What you might have missed since PowerShell was still called Monad is that more and more of the Windows services have been changed to make them easier to automate with PowerShell. SQL Server even bundles and requires it now. Many existing applications can be automated with it as well, since it operates on the .NET and COM infrastructure that most major applications are built on nowadays.
I think you might be missing the point of all this. PowerShell is just there to give us a good way to control a platform that was already able to be automated. We just didn't have a good tool that was built around the semantic model of the platform. The old tools were either Unix ports built around files, or COM tools - it's much easier to automate COM from .NET than the reverse. The fact that there's a CLI is more of a side-benefit, not the point of it all.
If you really want to you can make changes straight from the CLI using any cross-platform standard text editor, or even develop from scratch. Most people on Windows don't want to do that though, since their GUI tools are as good or better than those. There's no problem with that.
Member since:2010-03-08
Slightly OT : I still have to find a fully satisfying programming-grade text editor for Windows. Notepad++ and SciTE look like stuff from the last century as compared to modern Kile or GEdit...
I've heard good things about UltraEdit, but it still feels somewhat weird to pay for a text editor.
Edited 2011-12-25 00:09 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
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I remember the time that the ugly thing was still called Monad. After Monad, I never tried it again.
"CLI with a GUI" WFT...
The whole ecosystem is not really CLI oriented. Doing simple work inside the CLI is hard because many basic tools (e.g. good text editors, text-based browsers) are lacking.