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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Doug Finke about his new book, Windows PowerShell for Developers!
News
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PowerShell 3.0 is out for Win7 and Windows Server 2008!
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PowerShell Saturday!
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First PhillyPosh meeting is Oct 4th at the Microsoft campus in Malvern, PA
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A PowerShell Summit is in the works
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There is a new #PowerCLI IRC channel
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Interview
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Guests - Doug Finke, MVP and author
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The Question -
Mission to Mars: the LUA scripting language
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Chatroom Banter
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JHofferle: ## How difficult was it writing a book that was released around the same time as PS v3?
brwilkinson: # Why would/should a SysAdmin buy your book? : )
JHofferle: ## Is the target audience for your book Developers, or admins with a developer background?
FishTender27: ## I may have missed it as I was AWK. Â Is the book meant to be used and compliment specific development language or is it geared toward writing tools directly in Powershell?
Graythang: ##how much coverage does the book provide for excel use (i have to kick out metrics every month, I'd LOVE to automate it)
Graythang: ## does it cover creating pivot tables with graphs?
JHofferle: ## Have you considered writing about laying a GUI over PowerShell a la Server Manager 2012? This is something the PowerShell team has said they haven't dived into.
AaronHoover: ## for sysadmins - +/- for JSON and XML?
JHofferle: ## What best practices do you see changing for v3?
Vern_Anderson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munge
JHofferle: XML has it's place, but JSON strikes me as the web's version of a PowerShell custom object.
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Contest
If you would like to win a copy of Doug’s new book, Windows PowerShell for Developers, all you have to do is to send an email to [email protected] with your name and address, and your preference for physical or ebook. We will pick one winner and announce it on the next show. Deadline is September 13th!
