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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to James Brundage from Microsoft.

News





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  - 
    April 30th is the next [PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting](http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2009/04/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html) 


  - 
    The PowerShell team [is looking for new verbs](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/04/22/soliciting-new-verbs.aspx) 


  - 
    John Cook has published his new e-book titled "[PowerShell Day 1](http://www.johndcook.com/powershellbooklet.html) "

Interview





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Tips from James

Splatting example:

function

 

foo

(

[switch]

$force

,

 

[switch]

$confirm

)

- 
  [Working with Perf counters blog post](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/04/21/v2-quick-tip-monitoring-performance-counters-with-powershell.aspx)







Here are some sample scripts from James:

Resources







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  - 
    Joel has published a [WPF countdown clock](http://huddledmasses.org/a-wpf-countdown-timer-in-powerboots/) that uses his PowerBoots framework


  - 
    Jeff Hicks is [having fun with the PowerShell ISE](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/04/17/fun-with-powershell-ise/) 


  - 
    Speaking of ISE, the PowerShell team now has a [new Start-Demo script](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/04/22/do-powershell-demos-in-the-ise.aspx)


  - 
    Joel's advice for [getting PowerShell help](http://huddledmasses.org/where-to-go-for-powershell-help/)  in a hurry 


  - 
    Need help [explaining the value of PowerShell to a DBA](http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!EA42395138308430!347.entry) ?

  Tips









      - 
        [Execution policy tip](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2237.entry)  for Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit from Richard Siddaway

    Contest





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{

    

$force

    

$confirm

}

 

$parameters

 

=

 

@{

     

Force

 

=

 

$true

     

Confirm

 

=

 

$true

}

 

 

foo

 

@parameters