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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson, the Scripting GuyÂ
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- Jonathan Medd has a great blog series titled "One Cmdlet at a Time", he's already up to #23 Disable-ComputerRestore
- Ed Wilson's new book is out! Buy it at Amazon: Windows PowerShell(TM) 2.0 Best Practices (use this referral link to help out the show)
Interview
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.
Links
- Ed was on last time over a year ago! Episode 50
- New book:Â Windows PowerShell(TM) 2.0 Best Practices
- PS Hyper-VÂ http://pshyperv.codeplex.com/
- Space Invaders:Â http://ps1.soapyfrog.com/2007/01/02/space-invaders/
- Charting:Â http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EA42395138308430!473.entry
- Listener Trevor's blog post about using VPro from PowerShell
Questions
- ye110wbeard: ## Ed, when you got hired by Microsoft did you jump up and down like a madman yelling "yeeha"Â
- rfoust: ## what other scripting languages do you know and how do you think powershell compares?
- jtruman0917-1: ## With Microsoft promising that all products after Outlook 2007 would have Powershell Support. Â Why would a new automation lang even be a discussion?
- pcgeek86: What happened to Greg and Jean?
- rfoust: ## what's the coolest script you've seen and whats the coolest one you've written  Â
- Jaykul: ## So if you don't exercise best practices when you write scripts ... where do these best practices come from?
- [several asked if he would come to their user group]
Resources
- PoshCode:Â Edit file in Notepad++
- Dmitry posted a PowerGUI Overview Video
- Eric Sloof posted his slides from the recent Dutch VMUG. Topic was managing VMware with vEcoshell.
- James Brundage's WPK series continues with and into to containers
- Joel Posted a PowerBoots Gadgets script
- James Brundage posted Test-Spelling
One-Liners
Everybody got silly in the chatroom. So, let's channel that wild energy here with...beer cmdlets! 🙂 Note: these are not guaranteed to actually DO anything. YMMV, BYOB!
- pcgeek86: Drink-Beer -Amount LotsÂ
- ScottMoss: drink-beer -refillÂ
- pcgeek86: Drink-Beer -Type GermanPilsnerÂ
- ScottMoss: drink-beer -Type Sweetwater BuleÂ
- jtruman0917-1: Drink-beer -Type DoesItReallyMatterÂ
- rfoust: get-beer | giveto-rfoustÂ
- jkavanagh58: drink-beer -brand Yuengling -Type Porter -qty LotsÂ
- rfoust: while ($true) { get-beer }
