Episode 79 – Listener Interviews - PowerShell.org

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we have our first round of listener interviews featuring Rob Dowell, Staci Rottenberg, and Andrew Tearle

News

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PrimalForms 2009 is out{#ve41}
Version 1.2 of the PowerShell Community Extensions has been released{#m8zb}
PowerGui 1.9 is out{#mqy3}
Bruce Payette is up to chapter 5 of his PowerShell in Action 2nd Ed{#l9tg}.
Richard Siddaway looks to be close to finishing his PowerShell in Practice{#m21j} book.

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Thanks to our listeners Rob from the midwest, Staci (Hal’s wife), and Andrew Tearle–all the way from New Zealand!

Resources

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  [How to backup Twitter to Excel](http://poweradmin.se/blog/2009/07/24/how-to-backup-twitter-friends-with-powershell-and-excel-automatically/)


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  Chad put up a [great article](http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!EA42395138308430!493.entry) on building PowerShell GUIs with Primal Forms


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  [](http://poweradmin.se/blog/2009/07/24/how-to-backup-twitter-friends-with-powershell-and-excel-automatically/)[How to administer Hyper-V from the command line](http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/microsoft-hyper-v-articles/storage-management/administer-microsoft-hyper-v-command-line-cli.html)


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  [](http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/microsoft-hyper-v-articles/storage-management/administer-microsoft-hyper-v-command-line-cli.html)Hal started on a [Net-SNMP module](http://poshcode.org/1238)Â 


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  Don Jones [shares his two cents](http://concentratedtech.com/item/show/blog/306) on Primal Forms


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  Richard Siddaway has posted [a script that shows the start order of services](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2493.entry)







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Tips







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    The Scripting Guys have a [neat article](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/07/22/hey-scripting-guy-how-can-i-speed-up-my-windows-powershell-scripts.aspx) on improving the speed of a PowerShell scriptÂ 


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    You can [test more than files](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2009/07/29/test-path-can-check-more-than-files.aspx) with test-path


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    How to [wait for a key press](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2009/07/08/wait-for-key-press.aspx)

  Gotcha







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      [The difference between get-childitem & "get-childitem *"](http://www.powershellcommunity.org/Forums/tabid/54/aff/1/aft/4092/afv/topic/Default.aspx)

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