Word!

When thinking about my favorite Metro app on Windows 8 I realized that there is none. I really like the design language of Metro, but there's just no desktop app that boosts my productivity compared to any old school Windows app. In contrast, I think that Metro apps slow me down. This is especially true when it comes to working with documents, which is really clumsy with current Metro apps.

Here documents are (also) available in PowerShell. If you directly write a here doc into a file, make sure the @" is at the immediate start of a line (no indentation)!

Example:

@' $FOOBAR=Foobar '@ > "${TMPFILE}.ps1"

Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out

For the daring: ClangVSx: AddIn for Visual Studio 2010/2012 that allows use of the Clang C/C++ compiler in place of MSVC++

Installed raspbmc (specialised XBMC distro) on my raspi yesterday. It's not 100% stable, but if you stick to the built-in stuff and don't use any fancy modules, it seems to work pretty okay. I've installed a Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54 (WLAN) which didn't require additional kernel modules to be built - it works out of the box. The setup worked like this:

$ sudo -s $ cat << EOF > /etc/network/interfaces allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa.conf EOF $ wpa_passphrase networkssid passkey > /etc/wpa.conf $ chmod 600 /etc/wpa.conf

In theory, this should have brought the network up instantly…

$ ifup wlan0

… but I had to reboot instead.