Welcome to the final piece of the puzzle: displaying our metrics. We now have a pile of bits in our database, and now it needs to be displayed in a meaningful way. As you may recall from the previous parts of this series, we first built a PowerShell script which gathers information from the local machine. Using the… Read More »
PSMetrics Part 3: A simple ASP ingestor Welcome to part 3 in the PSMetrics series. In this part, I’ll be building a simple ingestor to receive and process data from the collectors, and send the data on to the database.
Once again, someone has decided to sell some knowledge. Nothing burns me up more than someone trying to make a quick buck off something so simple as generating a random password.
Now, now. I know most of you are pretty seasoned veterans of technology, and some of you are even top-notch developers. Would you believe someone out there is selling this, though? Yes, I know. On a particular forum for webmasters and SEO-type folks that I frequent, I saw a marketplace post for a script for sale. The script… Read More »
I have been asked for this little snippet of code by several users, so here it is. It does something that sounds really simple, but “classic” development languages from Microsoft don’t seem to have a built in function for it. Let’s say that you are righting some sort of application that requires certain fields to contain numbers only.… Read More »
Ever wanted to grab all the digits out of a string? This handy little function will do it. Not sure what purpose this would server, but someone requested it, so here it is.
So, you want to know more about ASP, huh? Well, you’ve picked a good place to start. This brief article should give you a good basic understanding of what ASP is all about and get you started on your way to creating your own dynamic web sites.