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Visual Studio 2012 was released a while ago, but because the success of my master’s project was dependent on my VS 2010 environment, I refrained from upgrading until now. Last week I completely removed Visual Studio 2010, including the laundry list of optional components that get installed, and then switched to Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate (which I had already acquired trough my university some time ago). I haven’t been able to play around with it in-depth yet, but here are some first impressions…  read full post

On February 27, I successfully defended my master’s thesis, which earned me the degree of Master of Science in the field of Computer Science and Engineering, and which also effectively marked the end of two decades worth of formal education.  read full post

Here’s another Euler problem for you!  read full post

Last year I’ve managed to complete 16 Euler problems. And even though I’ve been quite busy over the last 6 months, I’m still a bit disappointed in myself. Anyhow, let’s see how far we can get this year. Here’s the next problem:  read full post

Let’s say you have a file around 1 GB in size containing just a little more than 10 million and 300 thousand lines of plain text data. Your goal is to extract the first 10 million lines and write those to another file. You figure an easy way this can be done is using PowerShell, so you enter the following command:  read full post

It’s been a while since we last did any Project Euler problems, so why not have a go?  read full post

If there’s one thing Windows Server sorely lacks, it’s a decent secure shell. There is no built-in SSH server, and any third-party solutions are either unmaintained or costly. I like neither. Fortunately, PowerShell itself actually has the ability of opening sessions on remote PCs, using WinRM. It just requires a bit of configuring first. In this post, I’ll discuss the steps I’ve had to take to enable PowerShell remoting on my server. For all steps, assume PowerShell is running with Administrator privileges.  read full post