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modified 16-Sep-19 9:31am.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Don't want to take to much real estate here in the lounge so I'm editing my post to add this:
Gangs in the Garden - YouTube[^]
Don't know how you feel about Black Moth Super Rainbow. Probably depends in part on your age and it helps to be a bit out there in the first place if you're going to enjoy it. It's perfect hacking music, IMO. I like coding to it because they use vocals as background music rather than trying to distract me from my code with articulated lyrics.
___ SNIP ___
After coming off of a run of a bad few days in terms of development I did a thing.
I have a device that can connect via USB but only as a virtual COM port. It can't be a HID device or anything. All communication is serial, RS232 style (even though it's USB)
I have an application that works with it, and the bluetooth stack I was using prior exploded and regressions ate my BLE code. So I wanted to make it work over serial.
I did this in C# in the app, with C++ on the MCU end.
I have created a serial negotiation system that
A) Allows the application to automatically detect a device, and which COM port it's on with no user intervention. Only valid devices will be detected.
B) Allows the serial port to *also* be used at the same time for logging output messages. A filter can be applied that would only produce log messages.
So now the silly thing is plug and play *and* it still allows me to write debug spew to the serial port without interfering with the application's serial comms.
I do it by seeding my commands with characters outside of the ASCII 7-bit range to signal a command stream. This means you get periodic "garbage" in your logs, but like i said it can be filtered out.
Anyway, after the past few days of banging my head against the wall and making rookie mistakes I pulled a rabbit out of my hat. Woo! 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 21hrs ago.
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Don't you just love it when you regain those super powers? 
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Congratulations! I've opened up another forgotten aspect of history. And figured out another, easier way to create 2-bit color (black & white) graphics using Krita and another vector graphics program I have. So I'm stuck documenting it, and drawing thousands of stars, to get it illustrated properly. Love to do some programming again, but here's to some browsing to relax the mind since I can't do that... Your stuff sounds interesting!
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Nice music, I can recommend Spinvis[^] to you, he sings in Dutch so you won't be bothered by the lyrics 
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If he makes me accidentally pick up some Dutch I'm blaming you.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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You invented 'comments' in serial communication, don't you? 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not a wrod I use much in general conversation, but ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If it's 12345, then 312345 is more useful!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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still can't get wordle to post my results to here. cut and paste did not work either.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I am starting to learn PowerShell. I have avoided it for years, because whatever I needed to do beyond a simple BAT file, I could do in C#.
However, I am in a situation where I have to use PowerShell, so I am learning it.
One of the things I learned is that within a PowerShell script, you can call .cs files to run C# code. So this question came to mind, and I thought you all might have some opinions. I wrote a PS script that calls a .cs file and does exactly what I described. I have not mastered calling non-GAC .NET library DLLs yet, but I am working on it.
Why not use PowerShell as a management script, and write C# code to execute the "business logic"? I am not convinced that it is better to use PowerShell cmdlets to hack up some brittle script to do what can be more easily done in C#, which is far more capable and wider-ranging than PowerShell script.
This is a snippet from my script:
$Source = Get-Content "SomeCSClass.cs" -Raw
Add-Type -TypeDefinition $Source
$TestDLL = New-Object PSTest.SomeCSClass
$TestFilePath = $TestDLL.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\PowerShell Example Files\"
## Get a list of files using C# code from a static method
$Files = [PSTest.SomeCSClass]::GetListOfFiles($TestFilePath, "*.txt", 0)
Your thoughts?
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I also avoid PowerShell, it's of no use to me either.
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This is very welcome news. I might just want to learn PowerShell after all just for this capability.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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