Steve Hiner Talks About .Net

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.

 

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 (a Heathkit system my dad built - with 128KB RAM and dual 5-1/4 floppies - at the time that was quite a system).

Fast forward to college where I got a Civil Engineering degree.  While getting the degree I started taking every programming class I could get credit for.  Because of learning in the college of engineering my first serious programming was in FORTRAN77.

After graduation I worked as an engineer for a couple years but got bored with it.  When my current boss offered me a job programming I jumped at the chance.  That was 10 years ago.

Now I'm a Windows developer focusing on .Net technologies.  Most of my time is spent writing the UI to interface with hardware the company develops.  I've worked on everything from a stock trade sorting app to a machine vision app.  As systems integrators we do a little bit of everything so projects are always new and interesting.

I've become something of a PowerShell fanatic lately so I'm always looking for problems I can solve with a bit of PowerShell scripting.  I'm really blown away by Microsoft's new shell - it really is an amazing piece of technology.

Well, that's me.  Who are you?