Visual Studio 2008 RTM

Visual Studio 2008 is released to manufacturing. (RTM) Please take a look below or download your trial version, or else you can get your copy of express edition of VS2008.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/default.aspx

My team being dismissed and I learned something.

Something special happened in my life. My team being dismissed. The reason given is the biz is centered at U.S.A as the software aim for Aerospace & De fence. (Nonsense, right? If so, why form this few months ago?) My team will be re-deployed to other department too. But, they still have no position for me yet. I have gone through once re-deployment and restructuring in my ex-Company Intel before and I have very good luck to gone through it. Anyway, this is my first time to face re-deployment in my career.
The feeling of being re-deployed is not good. I felt like just like a specimen/mice for the scientist.
Don't know about my future, my career now. But, the good thing is I can have my free time to learn more thing and explore more things, I like that!!
I learned to assembly the Cognex Insight Vision Camera and how to operate the camera. It is cool and it is an IP Camera. Well, I think I will have my lot of time to play with it...Waiting for the "Scientist" to "operate" me...

Some suggested tools for PowerShell development

To keep on learning on PowerShell, you may go into deep to learn how to develop cmdlet if you are developer. That is very cool to develop your very own cmdlet. I found some examples that to develop some cmdlet to get contact info from the Outlook and some even more cool. Anyway, I plan to develop my very own and useful cmdlet. You can get some extra or extension for cmdlet or powershell in http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2688
and this is Keith's project. (My Boss : P)
That is no project template for you to create cmdlet, but you can get on from this website. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=256835

Thanks.

Powershell is cool.

Just got free time to play with Power Shell recently. Power Shell is really a cool tech. It enable you to create your custom command or it is called cmdlet in PowerShell and it is created with your familiar technology .NET if you are a .NET developer. For more information you can refer to some blogs and websites stated below:

Links

• Keith Hill's blog http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/ (He is my boss at my work place) :P
• B# .NET Blog http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/default.aspx
• Foo Theory http://footheory.com/blogs/bennie/default.aspx
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714622.aspx
• http://powergui.org

Books

• Microsoft Windows PowerShell(TM) Step By Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)
  by Ed Wilson (Author)
• Professional Windows PowerShell (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
  by Andrew Watt (Author)

Hope i will still get some free time after that to post some of my research done lately on PowerShell and DirectShow.