MapRedux – #PowerShell and #Big Data Have you been hearing about “big data”, “map reduce” and other large scale computing terms over the past couple of years and been curious to dig into more detail? Have you read some of the Apache Hadoop online documentation and unfortunately concluded that it wasn't feasible to setup a “test” hadoop environment on your machine? More recently, I have read about some of Microsoft’s work to enable Hadoop on the Azure cloud. Being a "Microsoft"-leaning technologist, ......

In my prior blog post on this topic, I showed how to use the PowerShell Start-Process command to initiate the rebuild of a Visual Studio solution using MSBUILD. With today's post, I'll show how I've wrapped this call into a PowerShell function to make it more PowerShell friendly.

After participating in the 2011 Scripting Games, I started thinking that I could use PowerShell to automate the build process and cut the QA release time significantly. I've started developing some scripts to make this happen and through this article would like to start sharing some of the useful functions.

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 exception that was occuring in the script...