I didn’t manage to post anything on the 1 year anniversary of powershellstation.com, but I did remember.  I was hoping to have posted more, but all in all, it wasn’t a bad year.  I have some plans for this year:

• Write a post or 2 about remoting
• Kill off the powershellworkbench project (I can’t stand writing WPF)
• Start a new host project using Windows Forms and the Puzzle.SyntaxBox edit control (probably using C#)
• Update the Books/Tools/Sites pages (and keep them more or less up to date)

I was really hoping that there would be some interest in the powershellworkbench project, but I’ve not heard anything (except for a comment that there were some missing icons).  Since I really didn’t enjoy writing WPF code (I might like it if I did a lot of it, but this is a hobby project), I don’t see much of a future for that project.  I am comfortable with Windows Forms, though, so I’ll be rebooting that project with a new name.  I’m also going to switch to the Puzzle.SyntaxBox control, because I know it will do the things I need to and not get in the way.  I haven’t found a similar component that wasn’t extremely complicated.  My goal with the project is to make something that an administrator with limited time could customize for their environment.  I’m afraid that the complexity of WPF and the Avalon controls would make that improbable at best.

I was also hoping that there would be more feedback.  I’m sure that this is a common frustration among bloggers (especially bloggers in a niche like this), so I’m not going to worry about that.  I am, however, going to make a concerted effort to comment on blogs that I read.  If you have any comments, they are always welcome.  If you have suggestions on topics, I’m open to that, as well.

One final thing.  I’ve been thinking about moving my blog to “No Support Linux Hosting”.  I’m not a Linux expert, but they have a WordPress setup tutorial, and you can’t beat $1 per month.  If I do change, I hope I can do it without any disruption, but who knows?

-Mike