Dilbert Me in F#

This is the Dilbert download tool in F#, just because I like playing with F# and making up reasons to do so.

I switched to WebClient here instead of WebRequest. It makes things a little easier and I clearly should have been using it all along.

I wrote it in Visual Studio 2013 as a F# script file. I selected all then hit 'alt+enter' to run it.

FsLight was what I was led to when googling F# code formatters. It was easy to use and seems to have done a good job.

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let webClient = new System.Net.WebClient() let url = "http://www.dilbert.com" let dilbert = webClient.DownloadString(url) let innerUrl = "http://www.dilbert.com/" + System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(dilbert, "src=.*strip.gif").Value.Substring(5) innerUrl let innerTempFile = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName() + ".gif" webClient.DownloadFile(innerUrl, innerTempFile) System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(innerTempFile)

Created with FsLight

How to get powershell syntax highlighting in HTML

Step 1: Use PowerGUI.
Aside from the code-highlighting, it's all kinds of awesome.
Step 2: Select the code
Step 3: From the Menu: Edit->Copy As->HTML
Step 4: Paste and enjoy in your Blog.

Code highlighting

It took me far to long to figure out how to highlight my code correctly in my last post.

http://www.stevetrefethen.com/highlighter/default.aspx