With all the love PowerShell is getting these days one might think that the golden age of (Windows) scripting has finally begun. Maybe it has. But one man’s nirvana can be another man’s hell. (more…)
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How to Send Data from C# to Splunk via the REST API
Splunk has a very extensive REST API – which is just a fancy way of saying that many of its capabilities are accessible via standard HTTP(S) requests. While much of the API is well documented, submitting data from C# to Splunk is kept a bit vague. Since I had to do that recently in order […]
Programming Sins Regarding the Registry (Using the Example of Microsoft Excel)
While browsing through the registry I found the following “gem”. It illustrates nicely how programmers are not supposed to store settings in the registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Nach Microsoft E&xcel exportieren] @="res://C:\\PROGRA~2\\MICROS~1\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE/3000" "Contexts"=dword:00000001[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Nach Microsoft E&xcel exportieren] @="res://C:\\PROGRA~2\\MICROS~1\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE/3000" "Contexts"=dword:00000001 (more…)
