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Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Fibonnaci Sequence This!

March 7, 2010 Mar 7, 2010 03/7/10
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Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here, it is warming up a bit down here in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States, and therefore I tend to gravitate outside on weekends. At least, far enough outside to make it to my woodworking shop. Today, I was thinking about building a series of boxes. One of the golden rules in box design is the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: How Much Wood?

March 6, 2010 Mar 6, 2010 03/6/10
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 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I am out in my woodworking shop today, and I am laying out an arch that I will use to create a curved top for a box. I need to know how much wood will be required to make that arch—the radius of the arch. Another use might be to measure for drywall when creating an arch over a door. How do I ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: A Function to Calculate Fuel Cost

February 27, 2010 Feb 27, 2010 02/27/10
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 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The cool thing about scripting on the weekend is you can take two hours for breakfast, hang out with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and not feel bad about it all. The Scripting Wife headed out with her friend to a rodeo and left me in the kitchen unattended. Bad mistake on her part! I got into ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Reuse Functions?

October 2, 2008 Oct 2, 2008 10/2/08
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  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of functions I wrote in PowerShell that I would like to use in other scripts. I am getting tired of cutting and pasting these things into various scripts over and over again. Surely there has got to be an easier way to do this! Have any ideas?- JB Hi JB, Of course, I have an idea…and don’t call ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Australian Dispatch #2: A Metric Ton of Scripting

September 26, 2008 Sep 26, 2008 09/26/08
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After nearly 20 hours in airports and planes, the giant Boeing 747 aircraft touched down on the runway at Sydney International airport-my scripting eyes were glued to the insides of my eye lids. It is rather evil the way they give you a test to see if you are qualified to enter the country...not Australia, all countries do this. Why are you ...