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On Saturday we went to see Pearl Jam live at Subiaco Oval wikipedia. It was an awesome night , the band was absolutely fantastic. If you want one of the best live rock experiences go and see Pearl Jam.Here are some photos I took using my phone. The photos are not the best, but I tried my best to make them better using Photoshop.

Microsoft have released Windows PowerShell a command line shell and scripting language that helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity.The DFO Show on MSDN’s Channel 9 has a great introductory screen-cast on new Windows PowerShell.

Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity. Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command line tools, and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell allows IT Professionals to more easily control system administration and accelerate automation. Windows PowerShell is easy to adopt, learn, and use, because it works with your existing IT infrastructure and existing script investments, and because it runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server “Longhorn”. Exchange Server 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager V2, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager leverage Windows PowerShell to improve efficiency and productivity.

Download Windows PowerShellSystem requirements for Windows XP:

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

I’ve got some code I’ve written in perl that allows me to write screen-scraping code easily, so when I decided to write something similar in Ruby.And so I came across Hpricot.

Hpricot is a very flexible HTML parser, based on Tanaka Akira’s HTree and John Resig’s JQuery, but with the scanner recoded in C (using Ragel for scanning.) I’ve borrowed what I believe to be the best ideas from these wares to make Hpricot heaps of fun to use.

Well with addition of little Maya to our family we needed a family car. The sensible thing to do would be to sell my BMW Coupe, but that just was not going to happen. So instead we sold my wife’s little 96 Holden Barina wikipedia and bought an Aussie made 2005 Ford Falcon XR6 wikipedia

My previous article covered the installation procedure for Ruby on Rails on the Fedora Core platform. Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows is just as easy, but rather then writing an entire procedure from scratch, the All About Ruby blog has a nice post/tutorial dealing with the subject. As a bonus it includes installing MySQL.Installing Rails on Windows (step-by-step tutorial)There is also Instant Rails package. This package includes Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Apache and MySQL all in one package.