Monthly Archives: January 2016

Quick Hits: Tracking The Status of GitHub Using PowerShell

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Boe Prox

This evening I noticed that GitHub, a site for collaborating and sharing code that I use for all of my projects, was down for an unknown reason. The site showed the dreaded ‘Unicorn of 503’ and I was left without … Continue reading →

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Getting the Icon from a File Using PowerShell

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Boe Prox

Sometimes you want to use an icon of a particular file for another purpose such as working with a custom UI in either WinForms or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) where you can supply the Base64 data to automatically load the … Continue reading →

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Updated Function to Remove Long Files and Directories

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Boe Prox

I had a post last month ( or year for that matter) on Hey, Scripting Guy! where I talked about using PInvoke and PowerShell to create a function that allowed you to remove files which were nested too deep in … Continue reading →

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