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About a week or two before Devops Camp, the attendees were asked how much experience they had using Pester, because another attendee was preparing a discussion on Pester and wanted to gauge the other attendees’ comfort level. Learning Pester had been on my to-do list for a while, but I had …
Do you spend hours a day in PowerShell? Switching back and forth between PowerShell windows getting you down? Have you ever wanted “Quake” mode for your terminal? If we are going to spend so much time in PowerShell, we may as well make it pretty. Check out the Ultimate PowerShell Prompt …
Jason Helmick and I were talking last night, and we got onto the topic of expertise and respect. Kind of, “once someone really gets to that expert level, and they surpass their teacher in knowledge, you really respect them.” I disagreed, and said, “no, I respect them the minute …
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of days, you already know that Microsoft announced last Thursday that the shell/scripting language formerly known as “Windows Powershell” is now supported on Linux and MacOS and that Powershell has been open-sourced. And for days, thoughts …
As PowerShell begins to move into a cross-platform world, it’s important to really understand “why PowerShell.” What is it, exactly, that sets PowerShell apart? Notice that I do not mean, “what makes it better,” because “better” is something you’ll …
Sometimes, as a developer, you want to be be able to keep track of free space on a drive, the size of a log, the load on your CPU, the number of users logged in, etc. With PowerShell, it is typically just a matter of finding the right cmdlet amidst the large (and rapidly growing) pool of cmdlets …
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Windows PowerShell - which I suppose we’ll just call “PowerShell,” now - has been open-sourced, with PowerShell Core builds being made available for various Linux distros as well as macOS. This is a big deal, but not exactly for the reasons you …
Be sure to check back often, as we’ll add to this. So does this mean I’ll be able to run [add your favorite module name here] on Linux/Mac? Likely not. PowerShell on Linux/Mac is, at present, “PowerShell Core,” which is a subset of the total Windows PowerShell product. …
For those of you that have been at PowerShell Summits over the last few years you’ll have heard Jeffrey Snover state that he wanted to take PowerShell to other platforms. Now its happened Jeffrey has announced that an ALPHA release of PowerShell is now available for Linux and Mac. Currently …
At the beginning of July, we welcomed our 3rd son into the world. As days past my wife and I would say, “wow, he’s 11 days old. Can you believe it?!”. I’m sure parents out there are relating to this! This gave me an idea for a fun script that would get your age in years, …
