Agile Inceptions for Projects

Agile Inceptions for Projects

Agile methodology has been changing the technology industry for the past decade, and over the past few years I’ve been applying more and more agile structures and principles to infrastructure, security and project management.  The last several projects...
Change is a Constant, Embrace It

Change is a Constant, Embrace It

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney The quote above is one of my favorites and embodies one of my core tenants and...
My Geek Code

My Geek Code

When I first started out in IT, I was lucky enough to find Wil Wheaton’s original site that contained a BBS called “Teh Soapbox”. This site lead me to a little known Geek Code standard. Yes the standard is out of date, but seriously its the Geek...

Formatting Strings in Powershell

Formatting strings in PowerShell is easy, just include the variable inside the string and it does it automatically, right? What about when you are using variable values (i.e. $ds.count)? Then you have to write an ugly line of code like: $string = “There are...

Creating XML Documents from Powershell

We all know I have OCD when it comes to formatting. Using the built in PowerShell cmdlets (Export-XmlCli) to export XML left me with a mess of an XML Schema that I couldn’t apply a XSL Transform to. I needed something that would allow me to control the schema,...