PowerTime PowerShell walk through


May 13th, 2008

I thought I’d provide a small taster of what you can expect to find in the PowerShell support for PowerTime.
PowerShell includes the ability to treat various resources as if they are akin to a file system. We figured that this would be an interesting way to deal with a time series database.
New-PSDrive -Name ptdb -Root [...]

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Creating open source software using Microsoft’s .NET framework


May 2nd, 2008

Whilst developing PowerTime (not there yet!), I’ve kept in mind the requirement that I need to ensure that the software can be built using only freely available tools.
Of course we will eventually provide an installer, but I like the idea that people can build the software on their own machine if they want to.
One way [...]

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Power Round Robin Database progress


April 22nd, 2008

After a brief two week hiatus on the website (it was only supposed to be one) I am now back onto writing Power Round Robin Database with Dean.
I am currently in the never never land of broken builds and failing unit tests struggling for the time when everything just works again.
When things are green this [...]

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Power Round Robin Database progress


April 7th, 2008

I’ve been a little quiet on here for a week or so. I’ve not been sunning myself on some Caribbean beach . Unfortunately I’ve been slaving away creating a .NET round robin database modelled on the famous RRDTool.
The first set of tests are now green as you can see from the image below. The current [...]

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