I recently wrote a Windows service for the development team here at work. Apparently, the devs were all committed to other projects and this extra curricular activity popped up. Being a developer in tester's clothing, I was asked if I'd do it. Interestingly, this was originally to be a Powershell script, but the more I worked on it the less it sounded like PS and the more it sounded like a service...pretty straight forward stuff: comes alive at configurable times, looks for files in a folder, processes...

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It is the 4th of July again. We are dragging out dusty flags and threadbare platitudes professing our belief in liberty and freedom. We cook out hotdogs and hamburgers, watch our fireworks, and sing songs about how our country is the greatest in the world because we are free. Some of us (like me) do it everyday and don't need one day a year to me reminded. Those of us who sing the loudest and pound our proud, stuck out chests the hardest will soon pack away those "strong" beliefs and get back to...

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