Setting Up A GitHub Specific PowerShell Profile

I was very excited to see that after several months of work Phil and Paul finally released their much talked about GitHub client for Windows. It has a great Metro style, and is very fluid and functional. Here is an example of what my client looks like As you can see it is very clean, and there are no typical windows borders or title bar which is common for Metro styled apps. As I was exploring the app, I stumbled on the fact that if you are using PowerShell as your default shell. ...

May 22, 2012 · 2 min · 423 words · Nick Berardi

Windows Developer Just Don't Understand The Command Line

When I saw this post over on the Windows PowerShell Developers Blog. It really occurred to me for the first time that Windows Developers don’t understand the simplicity, power, and elegance that comes from a command line window. Our *NIX brothers have been saying this for years and I just took it for granted that everybody universally understood how great the command line was. The following is an image of PowerShell Plus: ...

November 27, 2007 · 1 min · 122 words · Nick Berardi