Powershell

I've begun presenting again with some frequency. My topic of choice, unsurprisingly, is PowerShell. I had presented on PowerShell quite a bit back in 2009, but since then I had taken a break. Now that everyone in the area has had sufficient time to forget my earlier presentations, I can just recycle my earlier talks and give them again!

Date math is hard... at least for me. My brain has trouble thinking in terms of dates. I probably overanalyze things, but if you say something like "let's meet for dinner 2 days from now," I immediately start thinking things like "inclusive" or "exclusive" dates. Do you mean 2 days from now including today? Does it include today if it is morning, but if it is evening, we'll start with tomorrow? As I said, I'm sure I'm overanalyzing.

Last week, prior to a weekly meeting, one of my team members had the idea to take a few minutes before the meeting to review some code. We already do code reviews prior to deployments, but we've been wanting to improve the quality of the code reviews... we wanted to really have good dialog about code quality and be able to share that discussion with the whole team.

I know what you're thinking... "did he just say 'binary data'? Like, 1's and 0's?" Well, yes, yes I did. If you're like me, the last time you actively had to do anything with straight binary data was in college when you were learning how to convert between binary to hex to decimal and back again. I would imagine that most of us run into hex somewhat frequently, but that we don't actually have to deal with binary data as often.

I'm sure I'm the only person in the world who ever wants to know what the command line arguments for running processes is, but in the remote chance that someone else out there might need this some day, here you go.

If you seriously still haven't heard or used PowerShell yet, come to my Little Rock DNUG presentation on the topic on Monday, July 13. Or, if you're busy Monday night because you're going to hear Keith Elder speak on Velocity to the Fort Smith DNUG, then come Tuesday night to hear me give my PowerShell presentation to the Conway DNUG instead!

Announcing Find-String.ps1, ack for PowerShell

Various ways of searching through code quickly and effectively.

This is just a quick post to share a very simple PowerShell script I wrote to extract files from a compressed file (zip, 7z, whatever)

If you've been writing .NET applications for a while, you're likely aware that you're not supposed to just throw Exception.

How to write your own custom PowerShell ISE theme.

I was working with a lot of images for a website today and I needed to quickly create thumbnails for each one. I did a quick Google search on PowerShell and creating thumbnails, but I gave up after about a minute... yeah, I probably got impatient, but oh well.

Sharing the slides and notes from my PowerShell presentations to MNUG

Tonight, I presented on PowerShell to the Fort Smith .NET User Group.org/). It was my first presentation/speech since college! Fortunately, it seems to have gone over well and I think I helped drive some interest in PowerShell. Here are my slides and other relevant links for any of those who attended.

I didn't expect to add a Speaking category to my blog just yet, but... well, here it is, my premiere Speaking post.

This will be my first time to go to Tech Ed, so I'm excited. I've only been

Simple PowerShell script to print source control diffs in color in the terminal

PowerShell ISE - a graphical PowerShell IDE

PowerShell 2.0 CTP released

Simple PowerShell client to build a webclient with a proxy

I got a PowerShell sticker

Sharing about PowerShell automation and my LASIK experience

A simple PowerShell script to calculate file hashes

A few weeks ago I posted a way to use PowerShell to find in files. This is just an extension of that post to show how you might open the results of your find in a program.

Select-String is a cmdlet that will search files or strings, sort of like grep in Unix or findstr in cmd.exe. If you use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, you can specify the -Recurse switch to retrieve subdirectories and the -Include switch will only include the file types that you specify. Then you can pipe it over to Select-String.

How to set PowerShell's script execution policy in Windows Vista.

Custom colors in PowerShell by setting ForegroundColor in your prompt

How to customize your PowerShell prompt

You should subscribe to the PowerShell blog

Using PowerShell to find all solutions in a directory

Recursively removing files is another PowerShell thing I like

Free PowerShell IDE from ScriptInternals

A brief post on setting up your VS2005 environment in PowerShell.

My first exposure to PowerShell