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How to Get Error/Exception Details in PowerShell Catch Block
Dan's Blog	By Dan Dittenhafer on 5/2/2011

For the last couple of weeks I have been required to import a data log file (CSV) from a legacy SCADA system into my centralized data management system. It occured to me today that I might be able to use PowerShell to automate some of the importing steps which include import to a DEV, QA and Production system. I'm still working on this script, but in the process of developing it, I had a need to learn more about an ex ...

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Lessons Learned from the 2011 Scripting Games
Dan's Blog	By Dan Dittenhafer on 4/21/2011

I joined the 2011 Scripting Games as a beginner. I was aware of PowerShell and had even written a decent script at one point a couple years ago to modify an XML file, but generally PowerShell wasn’t part of my toolbox and I wasn’t specifically seeking to make it so. Then came the PowerShell: Le ...

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On the Problem of Evil
Dan's Blog	By Dan Dittenhafer on 3/16/2009

In his textbook The Philosophical Journey, William Lawhead defines the problem of evil as “the difficulty of reconciling the existence of suffering and other evils in the world with the existence of God”. Traditionally, philosophers place various types of suffering and unfortunate situations into two categories. The category of Moral Evil encompasses the actions and their side effects that originate from beings that are considered capable of being held morally responsible.

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Book Review: Pro LINQ Object Relational Mapping with C# 2008
Dan's Blog	By Dan Dittenhafer on 8/24/2008

I’ve really gotten a lot out of this book. Vijay Mehta does an excellent job of encompassing both ORM and LINQ topics important to professional software development into one affordable text. He opens with an overview of Object Relational Mapping (ORM), and the criteria he uses when evaluating ORM solutions, including a quick synopsis of how LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework rate against his criteria. This provid ...

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