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Episode 91 – Oisin Grehan on Pmodem and Modules

Jonathan Walz
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Oisin Grehan about Pmodem and PowerShell Modules

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    The guys at Devfarm are really pumping out the tutorials on their [new blog](http://blog.powerwf.com/). For example: 


        [What is a Workflow](http://blog.powerwf.com/post/212184431)


      - 
        [PowerWF Terminology](http://blog.powerwf.com/post/213802536)






  - 
    [Channel 9 has posted](http://blogs.msdn.com/mediaandmicrocode/archive/2009/10/30/new-wpk-video-online-multitouch-fingerpaint-in-30-lines-of-powershell-script.aspx) another one of James Brundage's WPK videos "How to Write a MultiTouch FingerPaint with WPK"


  - 
    Dmitry has a new video out as well, this one is about [how to create a PowerGUI powerpack](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/video-on-creating-a-powerpack/).


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  Links







    - 
      [http://www.nivot.org/2009/11/02/PowerShell20IntroducingThePModemFileTransferProtocol.aspx](http://www.nivot.org/2009/11/02/PowerShell20IntroducingThePModemFileTransferProtocol.aspx)


  Questions







    - 
      ChadMiller: ##Any differences in way I would write a binary module in V2 vs V1 snappin


    - 
      PowershellJedi: ## is the green & yellow progress bar built into powershell v2 i've seen it used in other cmdlets


    - 
      glnsize: ## opinion on winrm and remoting in the realworld... after managing your sp farm.

Resources

  - 
    Jeff Hicks [posts about PModem and Folder Listings](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2009/11/pmodem-and-folder-listings/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed)


  - 
    Mike over at PowerShell Musings is [doing a series on creating your own PowerShell Hosting App](http://powershellstation.com/2009/10/12/writing-your-own-powershell-hosting-app-part-1-introduction/)


  - 
    Lee Holmes [blogged about an Activity Monitor](http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/PowerShellActivityTracker.aspx) he wrote in PowerShell

Tips

      - 
        [A one-liner from Hal](http://twitter.com/halr9000/statuses/5260468753) showing how to write a log message with functional context.


      - 
        [Pipelines and Parameters](http://poshcode.org/1428)


      - 
        Serverfault.com: [Return folders whcih contain one file](http://serverfault.com/questions/74484/how-to-find-directories-that-contain-only-on-file) 

Gotchas

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      An [oddity in PowerShell operators](http://www.ericwoodford.com/node/262) 


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      [WMI class win32_product isn't installed](http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/archive/2009/09/16/wmi-remote-query-for-win32-product-class-results-in-generic-failure-error-0x80041001.aspx) on all systems

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