Windows: get parentprocess ID / name

Powershell command to get parent processes of all processes with a given name (javaw.exe):

Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter "Name = 'javaw.exe'" | select ParentProcessId

Or in a script. TYhis one takes the process name as a parameter and also shows the , this time with the parent process name: 

$targetProcessName = $args[0]

$targetProcessName = $args[0]
$targetProcesses = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Process -Filter "Name = '$targetProcessName'"

foreach ($process in $targetProcesses) {
    $parentProcessId = $process.ParentProcessId
    $parentProcess = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Process -Filter "ProcessId = $parentProcessId"
    Write-Output "Process: $($process.processId) $($process.Name), Parent Process: $($ParentProcessId)    $($parentProcess.Name)"
}

Jetbrains 2023.2 releases

Some highlights:

• AI assistance (chat GPT) integration beta. 
• Currently no new users of the plugin are being accepted, with no timeframe for when this will change.
  
• process gitlab merge requests (merge them in intellij)
  
• multiple member and multi caret selection in refactorings
• HTTP client enhancements (view result as HTML...)
  

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Java 21 LTS releases september 19th 2023

With the upcoming new LTS (Long Term Support)  release of Java, Java 21, quite some preview features of earlier releases are finally completed.  These are the most important goodies we get withe the new LTS release:

• record pattern matching: destructuring for records
  
• several switch enhancements
• type and pattern matching
• null matching
• more complex tests using case ... when ... constructs
  
• SequencedCollection: extra operations on first and last elements for collections for which the order of the elements is known.
• lightweight threads 
• text manipulation methods
  
• String::splitWithDelimitors
• SringBuilder::repeat
• Character eomji methods
  

More info...