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Happy International PowerShell User Group Day!
Posted by: sarah on: March 19, 2012
Today, techies throughout the world are celebrating the awesomeness of PowerShell with International PowerShell User Group Day. Some people are quick to dismiss it as an IT admin tool, but there are other people besides sysadmins who use PowerShell. I can think of a SharePoint guy, a few SQL Server guys, and yes, even developers, [...]
Intro to PowerShell @ MIGANG - Notes from 2/15 Presentation
Posted by: sarah on: February 26, 2012
- In: PowerShell
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On February 15, I was privileged to speak at MIGANG on PowerShell. As true with most of my PowerShell presentations, there are no PowerPoint slides for this presentation, just a custom module that has my comments on various topics. The custom module is a manifest module, as I generated a PSD1 file for the module. [...]
Using StudioShell to generate WiX XML
Posted by: sarah on: November 21, 2011
I have to say it - after seeing Jim Christopher‘s StudioShell talk at devLink this past year, I think it’s been my most favorite Visual Studio tool so far. I get to use my PowerShell knowledge to help script stuff out, saving my teammates a ton of work. Today, we added about 10 new pages [...]
Ann Arbor Day of .NET 2011 Recap
Posted by: sarah on: October 30, 2011
- In: Events | PowerShell | Presentations
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Yesterday, I was up in Ann Arbor, Michigan for their Day of .NET event at Washtenaw Community College. I wanted to thank some of the organizers - Jason Follas, Jay Harris, and Scott Zischerk - for making this happen. I know how much work it takes to get one of these together, and without them, [...]
PowerShell Not Your Father’s Command Line Part 29 of 31: Demystifying MSDN and PowerShell static syntax
Posted by: sarah on: May 30, 2011
- In: PowerShell
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Originally, this post was going to be about GUIs, but after waking up this morning and seeing a comment on Part 28, I figured that I’d address that comment in this post. Paul Bendall writes: But how does an ITPro without a developer background start to use MSDN and understand terminology such as static, override, [...]
PowerShell Not Your Father’s Command Line Part 28 of 31: What is the .NET Framework?
Posted by: sarah on: May 28, 2011
- In: PowerShell
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While talking with Hal and Jonathan on the PowerScripting podcast, I was asked the question “What is .NET?” Of course, I mentioned that it’s a framework, but then I choked… the .NET Framework is a huge thing to try to tackle like that, especially when talking with IT pros. Being a developer and working with [...]
PowerShell The Community’s Command Line Part 27 of 31: It Takes a Community to Raise a Language
Posted by: sarah on: May 27, 2011
Much like the saying It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to raise a programming language. Without passionate people in that community, the word won’t spread and a language can die. Yesterday, I talked about some of the cool community resources and sites. Today, I want to salute those who [...]
PowerShell My Father’s Command Line Part 26 of 31: Start Spreading the News…
Posted by: sarah on: May 26, 2011
- In: Community | MVP | PowerShell
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I’m watching this week’s episode of Glee again while writing this post, and the “I Love New York/New York, New York” mashup really inspired this title. I have to give a shoutout to my dad in the title, as while he isn’t technologically inclined, he taught me the value of networking and establishing relationships. He [...]
Scripting - It’s Not Just for Developers!
Posted by: sarah on: May 23, 2011
Recently, Matt sent me this article on IT Pros are not feeling the love from Microsoft and asked for my feedback. Now I need to qualify this for those who don’t know me that (1) I used to work in IT doing system and database administration and desktop support and (2) I’m married to an [...]
PowerShell Not Your Father’s Command Line Part 22 of 31: Good PowerShell Things Come in Nifty Packages
Posted by: sarah on: May 22, 2011
Have you found yourself writing PowerShell objects that you’d love to share with others? What’s the best way to get these things distributable? Well… with PowerShell 2.0, you have two different types of packaging - snap-ins and modules. Snap-ins Snap-ins were available in PowerShell 1.0 and are still supported in PowerShell 2.0. In order for [...]
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