In Windows 10, Microsoft has finally baked a package manager called OneGet into Windows. It works similarly to apt-get and other package managers that have been around for decades in the Linux world; just works in PowerShell, rather than bash. So let’s take a quick peak. First, import it as a module from a PowerShell prompt: Import-Module -Name OneGet Next, use Get-Command to see the options for the OneGet Module: Get-Command -Module OneGet This will show you the following options: Find-Package Get-Package Get-PackageProvider Get-PackageSource Install-Package Register-PackageSource Save-Package Set-PackageSource Uninstall-Package Unregister-PackageSource Next, look at the repositories of package sources you have: Get-PackageSource You can then add a repo to look at,…
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SaaS Defined
From Wikipedia: Software as a service (SaaS, typically pronounced ‘Sass’) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer’s own computer, SaaS alleviates the customer’s burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support. Conversely, customers relinquish control over software versions or changing requirements; moreover, costs to use the service become a continuous expense, rather than a single expense at time of purchase. Using SaaS also can conceivably reduce the up-front expense of software purchases, through less costly, on-demand pricing. From the software vendor’s standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual…
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ASP Defined
ASP stands for an Active Server Page, a type of web page that is hosted on a server that supports the ASP scripting engine. ASP is a file that contains text, HTML, and/or ASP scripting commands. ASP files use/require the *.asp extension. Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) supports ASP. You can also use ASP with varrying forms of (or add-ons for) Apache such as Apache::ASP::Install.