Tag Archives: data

Downloading the Results of a Twitter Search using PowerShell and SQL (part 2)

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Richard

I’ve expanded a little on my Twitter project. (See part 1 here.) I adjusted the PowerShell script to page through the data going back as far as Twitter holds the data. There is still a lot to be done. Left … Continue reading →

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Downloading the results of a Twitter Search using PowerShell

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Richard

I’m trying to learn PowerShell because I need to automate some things. I was a little skeptical about all the hype surrounding PowerShell. What could it possibly do the Perl didn’t? But I knew it integrated really well with .NET … Continue reading →

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Generating Random Data for Testing

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Richard

Recently I was faced with the need to generate lots of data for a presentation. There is a temptation in situations like this to grab some data from a production system and obfuscate it somehow. My advice to you is … Continue reading →

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