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MINNESOTA BASED APPLICATION DEVELOPER
POWERSHELL

Microsoft PowerShell

I've used PowerShell in the past on projects at work. Mainly searching through multiple documents looking for certain patterns and outputting the files that matched those patterns. This week I had a task of pulling 154 records out of a document that had 156,000 records total. The script would then need to write those 154 records to a new text file keeping the exact same format as they were in the original document.

I originally thought about doing this with Python but I wanted to try with PowerShell. With the help of online docs and PowerShell's help pages I was able to piece together the code to do this in about 10 lines.

The end result ran in well under a minute and worked beautifully. I must say PowerShell is definitely a step in the right direction for Microsoft. Working on a command line and having many tools available to me really made me feel as if I were back working on one of my Linux workstations.

I highly recommend PowerShell for developers working in a Microsoft Windows environment. Especially if you're working with large amounts of data.



REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
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I stumbled across a nice online regular expression testing tool yesterday. It's called RegExPal and has been a handy tool for writing regular expressions and testing them before implementation.



RETRO GAMING ON LINUX

Today I glanced over at a pile of NES games that I have. I thought it'd be fun to play a few of them. Instead of hooking up the NES I installed NEStopia for Linux. NEStopia is a free emulator that I have enjoyed using in the past. Once installed, I then downloaded a few free ROMs from The NES Files. I may have opened a can of worms because there are a lot of games I want to play again. Games such as Battle Toads, Bubble Bobble, Friday the 13th, Fester's Quest, Donkey Kong, RBI Baseball, the list goes on and on.

Friday the 13th NES

A screenshot from Friday the 13th


Remote Control Game Show NES

A screenshot from MTV's Remote Control Game Show



VELOY TECHNOLOGIES

Around 2001 a friend (Pete Lindeman) and I started a web hosting and development company called, Veloy Technologies. We had an amazing store front office on Walnut Street in Mankato, Minnesota. We were up and running for a few years until our largest client acquired us. I believe we were ahead of our time back then. I only wish that I had been mature enough eighteen years ago to handle the stress and responsibilities of owning a business. I think we could have done bigger and better things with a sales team and proper management.

Below is a screen shot of our company's website in 2001. We also had a separate site for technical support for our web hosting clients, our very own IRC server running for live help, as well as our own web-based email client that we developed specifically for our customers' use.

Veloy Technologies



DOMHESS.COM IN 2008

I some times find myself looking through backups of photos, websites, code, etc. for fun. I stumbled across this website mock-up from 2008 by my old friend Ken Adams. I ran with this for a couple of years. He has always created fun graphics for me to work with and I always enjoy working with him.

It's been eleven years now. I look at this and I just can't believe how far web development has come in such a short time. It continues to change rapidly and I do believe that it has to be one of the most exciting fields to be involved in.

Dom Hess.com in 2008



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