P-P-PowerShell Pomodoro
In time, I may make a Silverlight timer with some capacity for the lists and notes required by the technique. For now, here's a quick PowerShell script to just do the timer part.
$mins = $args[0]
$start=$(get-date);
$diff=$(get-date)-$start
$total=new-object TimeSpan -argumentList 0,$mins,0
while ($diff -lt $total) {
write-progress -activity $diff -PercentComplete (($diff.TotalSeconds/$total.TotalSeconds)*100) -Status "Work!"
sleep 1
$diff=$(get-date)-$start
}
get-date
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book, there is an example to work through; Creating a Twitter client with Silverlight. Just the fact that the author can use this as a "hello world" style example gives the reader a little indication of how powerful Silverlight is for building web apps.
