Quick Powershell Background Function

My blogging energy is way low these days, but I'm forcing myself to throw together a quick post - whipping myself like that crazy albino masochist monk assassin in the DaVinci Code.

First, here's a handy function to change the background color of a powershell terminal. Just throw it into profile.ps1, and you're all set to colorMe 'DarkGreen' or whatever. I found the code at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee156814.aspx.

function colorMe( $color ) {
    (Get-Host).UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = $color
}

Next, I'm working on a project now that involves a little SVG, and I was surprised to discover that my NetBeans IDE didn't recognize the file type. It turns out that NetBeans' SVG support is in its Mobility extension, so I'm all set now after installing that.