July 2008 Entries

Out-Treemap - PowerShell treemap cmdlet

In order to use the cmdlet first you'll have to grab the Microsoft Visualization Components from Microsoft Research. If you don't want all the visualization components here is a zip file of just the treemap generator dll.  Unzip it and put TreemapGenerator.DLL in your scripts folder. Grab this file to get the scripts I demoed at the meeting. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I'm hoping to do a full writeup for the blog soon.  

Who am I? What am I doing here?

Hi, I thought I'd start my blog by introducing myself.  I'm Steve Hiner.  Christian, father, family man and programmer. I started writing code back in grade school.  It was in the early 80s so I was about 10-12 years old at the time.  I believe it was on a TRS-80 and I'm sure it was some form of BASIC.  A while back I ran across an old audio cassette tape with one of my first programs on it, a sci-fi text adventure game.  I remember my mom helping me read through a programming book while sitting at our home PC...