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Research/Articles

• Windows PowerShell to PowerShell Core is how to deal with breaking changes in the new PowerShell.
• Writing a PowerShell Core Module With F#, A Complete Guide fully explains how to create a binary PowerShell module in F#, considering branding, source control, tests, documentation, and publication.
• Setext vs atx Header Styles in Markdown is an even-handed analysis of the available Markdown header styles.

References

• Windows Key Shortcuts for Windows 10 has all the Windows Key shortcuts.
• Two Letter ISO/FIPS/NUTS Country Codes with Currency, Language, and Subregion Codes puts all the two-letter internationalization codes from several standards on the same grid.
• C# History helps to determine what version of C# is required for specific language features.
• XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 QuickRef and XML Schema QuickRef for those of us that still have to work with a lot of XML.
• SQL Server Datatypes QuickRef is something I put together in the ’90s.
• Important Standards the specs and standards that make the Internet (and related stuff) work.

PowerShell & F#

My Detextive, SelectXmlExtensions, CertAdmin, or Pretendpoint PowerShell modules can be installed by runnning Install-Module SelectXmlExtensions (for example). DotNetGlobalToolProvider is a trivial exercise in creating a OneGet package.

My most active repo is scripts, which is mostly PowerShell, but also some F# and other (primarily Windows) stuff.

I contribute a small amount to several community projects, as well.

Some Old Perl Modules

• Lingua-EN-Nickname & Lingua-EN-MatchNames allow matching on human names. As seen in The Perl Journal, reprinted as chapter 21 of O’Reilly’s Games, Diversions & Perl Culture.
• Statistics-Lite, a pretty basic stats package that for some reason has been used all over the world, in cancer research, and by NASA.

Some Old Windows Projects

• dbscope, a simple GUI to browse databases.
• magicnumber-lite, a sort of simplified Windows port of file(1), which uses magic numbers in data to determine the format of the data stream. (Zip data starts with “PK”. Java class files start with 0xCAFEBABE.)