A couple of months ago I put together a quick PowerShell based stream reader for Coral8 .   While it was fun to write, beyond demos, it didn't see much use - lack of easy discoverability about which streams were available meant that it was easier to use the Coral8 studio. So today I have a...

In the first post on integrating PowerShell and Coral8 I showed how to create a message sink. In C#ish pseudocode we did the following: OutputStream<T> => Action<T> where the Action<T> was a PowerShell block to send a message via GMail. Today the goal is to do a transform, something...

  Powershell V2 has some great new features, in particular Add-Type and Remoting features are likely to be quite popular and work together without much issue. That said, there are edge cases which illustrate how the types returned from remoting calls. The following script demonstrates the issue...