Ramblings about computer markets …
This is what I call a stream of consciousness, edited. Please don’t rip my head off, call me names, etc. Microsoft is a product of the commodity hardware era. That is, Microsoft is a company that...
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Arrange – Act – Assert: Intuitive Testing
Today I have a new module to introduce you to. It’s a relatively simple module for testing, and you can pick it up in short order and start testing your scripts, modules, and even compiled .Net code....
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PowerShell 3 – Finally on the DLR!
For those of you living in a cave: PowerShell 3 will be released in Windows 8, and we got a CTP at roughly the same time as the Windows 8 Developer Preview was released (at Microsoft’s new //Build/...
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Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium?
This is sort-of a place-holder for a full-length post that I really ought to write about driving web testing from PowerShell using Selenium. I actually have a little module around for doing that with...
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Rich formatting for PowerShell help
[updated] Ok, I just updated this with a new post on PoshCode. I posted the HtmlHelp module to PoshCode for generating HTML web pages based on the help for functions or cmdlets. It basically has one...
View ArticleGet-Command in PowerShell 3 (NOTE: CTP2 Bug causes module loading)
I don’t normally blog about the bugs I find in beta software, but I posted this bug to PowerShell’s Connect and I feel like it got ignored and not voted, so I’m going to try to explain myself better...
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Adventures getting MSBuild, TFS and SQL Server Data Tools to work together
We recently found that our database project at work goes from a 40-minute build and compile to about 20 minutes when we upgrade from the VS2010 (SQL 2008) database projects (with the old .dbproj...
View ArticlePowerShell PowerUser Tips: The Hash TabExpansion
One of my favorite features in the built-in TabExpansion in PowerShell is one that many (if not most) users are unaware of: the “#” hash mark. In order to test this tip, you’re going to need a command...
View ArticleWhy I’m not excited about Windows 8 Certified Store Apps
It’s come up a few times recently, and I’m frustrated enough that I thought I’d just post this here for reference. The Windows 8 App Certification requirements has one particular requirement that...
View ArticleGet-Help for Modules you don’t have installed
If you have you ever wished you could get-help on commands for modules you don’t have installed locally, or are having problems using Save-Help to get module help onto servers that don’t have an...
View ArticleLong-running background tasks in ShowUI GUIs from PowerShell
A lot of the time when you’re writing ShowUI user interfaces in PowerShell, you’re just asking users for inputs, prompting them for choices, or showing them the results of some calculations (whether...
View ArticleA new way to zip and unzip in PowerShell 3 and .Net 4.5
I’ve got an article coming about WPF 4.5 and what’s new there for ShowUI, but in the meantime I thought I’d share this little nugget I noticed today: System.IO.Compression.FileSystem.ZipFile. You can...
View ArticleCreating PowerShell Modules, the easy way.
Today I’m going to show you a new way to build a PowerShell module: I think it’s the fastest, easiest way to turn a few PowerShell script files into a reusable, shareable module. Here’s the “too long;...
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A glimpse into my working/thought process
Last week we were talking about code-golf in the PowerShell Virtual User Group (in #PowerShell on Freenode). If you’ve never heard of it, code golf is basically a recreational computer programming...
View ArticleRuminations about a federal shield law
When you read, over the next few weeks (or months), about the “Shield Law” (aka the “Free Flow of Information Act”) you will undoubtedly find people claiming that the First Amendment already protects...
View ArticleSplunk adventures with SNMP and Cisco Nexus (Part 1)
I’ve recently been working with the Splunk SNMP Modular Input and some Cisco Nexus switches to see what sort of data and information I could gather using just the SNMP collector. It has been an...
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Splunk adventures with SNMP and Cisco Nexus (Part 2)
I’ve recently been working with the Splunk SNMP Modular Input and some Cisco Nexus switches to see what sort of data and information I could gather using just the SNMP collector. It has been an...
View ArticleAbout_PipelineBinding
One of the most powerful features of an object-oriented shell like PowerShell is that it can accept input from the pipeline based on the properties of the objects in the pipeline… When you’re writing...
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Configuration Files for PowerShell Scripts and Modules – Part 1
One of the common sets of questions we get in the Virtual User Group about PowerShell (particularly from authors who are just graduating from scripts to writing their first modules) are about how to...
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Cosmos, getting distracted in the Milky Way
I’ve been having a hard time expressing my disappointment with the new Cosmos. It actually upset me a bit, so I decided to blog about it as a way of getting closure. I guess I was expecting more...
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