We pushed an update to the MilestonePSTools #powershell module this week making it even easier to do bulk camera imports for #XProtect using CSV and Excel files.

You can import changes to existing hardware too! Check out the docs and this quick write-up https://www.milestonepstools.com/blog/2024/08/23/updates-to-import-vmshardware/

Have you ever wondered how Nerdbank.GitVersioning (nbgv) determined the fourth part of the version number? The part System.Version calls the "revision" in a version number like "0.1.7.28645"?

I realized that I had no idea how that number was derived. Turns out it's an unsigned 16-bit integer representing the first two bytes of the git commit hash.

This doesn't matter to me at all, except that I was determined to understand where that number came from.

https://www.joshooaj.com/blog/2024/08/02/nerdbankgitversioning-and-the-revision-number/

I just published PerceptHash - a cross-platform #powershell module for image comparison using the dHash perceptual hash algorithm.

https://www.joshooaj.com/PerceptHash/

A few months ago I made a blog post about the algorithm and shared a PSM1 file with an implementation using the System.Drawing namespaces, but I wanted a cross-platform version so I rewrote it using the ImageSharp libraries in C# targeting .NET Standard 2.0, so it works great on Windows, macOS, and Linux.