The 3 Ps of successful application deployment

1. Planning
2. Preparation
3. Proximity to a bakery

Have I missed any others?

Google Transit for Adelaide

I saw this mentioned on Australian IT today – if you open up Adelaide in Google Maps, you now get the option of listing directions by “public transit”.

So for example, if I wanted to get from “Westbourne Park to Glenelg”, just enter exactly that phrase and search, then click on the ‘public transit’ link

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As you can see from the map, it indicates the bus route (216), then you change to a tram (), then finally you walk (). The directions panel contains bus stop details and the service times.

Ever since I owned an Apple Newton MessagePad and more recently a few Windows Mobile devices I’ve had an idea for an application that would allow you to interactively find out when the next bus was, and tell me what time I would arrive home – taking into account that I used to catch two buses and a train to get home. Well it looks like Google has pretty much implemented that idea for me!

Useful PowerShell snippets (part 1)

Some things I’m finding useful:

Processes running on a machine

Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -ComputerName mymachine | Select { $_.Name }

Currently logged in user on a machine

Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName MyMachine | Select { $_.UserName }

Does a machine have .NET 3.5 SP1 installed

function Get-Net35SP1([string] $machineName) {     $reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $machineName)     $regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5" )     if ($regKey -ne $null) {         Write-Output $regKey.GetValue("SP", 0)         $regKey.Close()     } else {         Write-Output "Doesn't have .NET 3.5"     }     $reg.Close() }