Programming

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.

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 to implement an event generator for uberAgent I thought I might share my two solutions, both with and without the Splunk SDK for C#.

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 What is wrong with this? Several things: