Cleaning up IIS Virtual Directories with PowerShell

Sometimes, especially if you are working with a large amount of web applications or different versions of the same application, you find IIS gets cluttered with all the different web applications. It is quite tedious to go through and delete different ones when you want to clean up. I created this simple powershell script to allow you to remove web applications from a specified website within IIS from the command line. ...

September 21, 2013 · 1 min

Creating a Windows 8 Application

My application can be found in the Windows store. ...

September 9, 2013 · 7 min

Learning Node

I have been starting to make more and more forays into JavaScript and decided to bite the bullet and look into one of the more popular javascript libraries that allow a full application to be built, end to end with JavaScript. First was deciding what I was going focus on. Initially I started to look at backbone.js but discovered that really, backbone.js was more for handling your view layer better. You still needed some form of server side components. Looking for something more, I turned to node.js. Their website proclaims: ...

September 1, 2013 · 6 min

Learning Git

When writing software you are, very quickly, going to run into the need to have some form of source control. It is just inevitable. You might start off, on your own, creating copies of your files in different folders- the poor man’s version control. Very soon you will make changes and think “crap!”, wishing you could revert back to yesterday, or two days ago. But it is too late, there is no history. There isn’t much of anything - except your last saved version and your 3 month old deployed version. You need some control. Source Control in fact. ...

July 21, 2013 · 7 min