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Research/Articles

• Encoding Markup in .NET compares the effects of different XML/HTML character encoders.
• Windows PowerShell to PowerShell Core is how to deal with breaking changes in the new PowerShell.
• Writing a PowerShell Core Module With F#, A Complete Guide fully explains how to create a binary PowerShell module in F#, considering branding, source control, tests, documentation, and publication.
• Recurrence Formats compares different formats for specifying repeating events.

References

• C# History helps to determine what version of C# is required for specific language features.
• SQL Server Datatypes QuickRef is something I put together in the '90s.
• Date and time formatting comparison compares .NET and the GNU strftime date and time formatting template support, the latter is used in Linux and Unix systems.
• PowerShell secret vault describes using a secret vault from PowerShell.
• PowerShell Confirmation describes all the factors that can affect prompting users with $PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess().

PowerShell & F#

Detextive, SelectXmlExtensions, CertAdmin, or any of my PowerShell modules can be installed by runnning Install-Module SelectXmlExtensions (for example).

My most active repo is scripts, which is mostly PowerShell, but also some F# and other (primarily Windows) stuff.

I contribute a small amount to several community projects, as well.

Some Old Perl Modules

• Lingua-EN-Nickname & Lingua-EN-MatchNames allow matching on human names. As seen in The Perl Journal, reprinted as chapter 21 of O'Reilly's Games, Diversions & Perl Culture.
• Statistics-Lite, a pretty basic stats package that for some reason has been used all over the world, in cancer research, and by NASA.