All About School
Tomorrow (Saturday, 2. July 2011) you can visit the KTSI (Kantonale Technikerinnen- und Techniker-Schule für Informatik). Everyone is welcome and you can check-out some really cool projects like the MindTouchCollaboration multi-touch table, the web-based statusboard and a lot more.
Where: KTSI, Gründenstrasse 46, 4132 Muttenz
When: Saturday 2. July 08:30 – 12:00
More information: www.ktsi.ch
This is a modified document which I wrote for a Microsoft Workshop at KTSI. It’s a Desgin, Step by Step and a Troubleshooting Guide for Microsoft DirectAccess. This is made for SMB or LAB environments not for Enterprise Deployments.
I hope this guide can help you deploy DirectAccess in your environment and you can enjoy DirectAccess like I do ;-)
For a project at KTSI we needed a platform to quick deploy PHP and MySQL applications. There are a lot of solutions out there in the web, for example XAMPP. After testing some options I had a closer look at the Microsoft WebPlatform Installer and Microsoft WebMatrix. Those two tools do exactly what I need. With the WebPlatform Installer you can easily install a local instance of IIS Express with ASP.NET, PHP, MSSQL and MySQL support with in 5-10 minutes.
But the coolest tool in my opinion is WebMatrix. Webmatrix lets developers create, manage and deploy Web Applications very very easy. And if you need to to more Webmatrix lets you also work with Visual Studio on the same project.
Since I work more and more with Windows 7 I had a look at Microsoft OneNote 2010. Before I used Evernote and I was happy with it. But as I saw OneNote and startet using it, I can’t think being without it. There are alot of features I really love and OneNote 2010 is really nice integrated into Windows 7 and the Office products.
So if you wish to migrate from Evernote to Microsoft OneNote 2010 you can do that in diffrend ways.
You can read a great HowTo on howtogeek.com
Btw. Microsoft released also OneNote for iPhone
In the last 2 months, I passed my first two MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) Certifications. The first was the new MCITP: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator and the second was the MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. I am really happy it was hard work but I think it was worth it. If you want to get more information about certification, check out Microsoft Learn.
In the last article I posted the C++ Code for a simple Bean Machine output. Now I did the same in Powershell. I know this is not really a fantastic Powershell script, but its good to show others how things get done in Powershell.
Like in the C++ bean machine it works like this:
And the Output should look like this:
And here is how you do this in Powershell:
#Config [int]$ballCount = 100 [array]$box = @(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) [string]$line = " +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-->" [string]$numbers = " 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50" [object]$random = New-Object System.Random #count for([int]$i = 0; $i -lt $ballCount; $i++){ [int]$counter = 0 for([int]$j = 0; $j -lt 5; $j++){ $leftorright = $random.next(0,2) $counter = $counter + $leftorright } $box[$counter] = $box[$counter] + 1 } #Output Write-Host $numbers Write-Host $line for ([int]$t = 0; $t -lt 6; $t++){ [string]$Statusline = "" for ([int]$u = 0; $u -lt $box[$t]; $u++){ [string]$Statusline += "#" } Write-Host $t "|" $Statusline $box[$t] Write-Host $line }
This is a simple Bean machine program done in C++ for KTSI.
This is how it works, you drop 100 balls and they fall in 6 different boxes.
And this is how the C++ output should look like:
And here is how its done:
#include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> #include <ctime> using namespace std; int main (int argc, char * const argv[]) { // initial int ballCount = 100; int box[6] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }; string line = " +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-->"; string numbers = " 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50"; int leftorright = 0; // Need for Random Numbers srand ( time(NULL) ); // Rund ballCount (100) zahl = rand() % 2; for (int i=0; i<ballCount; i++) { int counter = 0; for (int j=0; j<5; j++) { // left or right leftorright = rand() % 2; counter = counter + leftorright; } box[counter] = box[counter]++; } // Output cout << numbers << endl << line << endl; for (int t=0; t<6; t++) { cout << t << " |"; for (int u=0; u < box[t]; u++) { cout << "#"; } cout << " " << box[t] << endl << line << endl; } return 0; }
I also did this program in Powershell
My name is Thomas Maurer. I am a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. I am part of the Azure engineering team (Cloud + AI) and engage with the community and customers around the world. I am located in Switzerland. I am focusing on Microsoft technologies, especially cloud and datacenter solutions based on Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack and Windows Server. Opinions are my own.
