Getting Started with PowerShell 2 – Part 3
My “getting started” series ran out of steam a bit partly because I didn’t get much feedback on them — maybe you’re not interested, or maybe it wasn’t easy enough, or was just too confusing. In any case, I want to put up at least this one last post to suggest that you get the [...]
*CHANGED* Network Cmdlets for PowerShell (Marco Shaw Presents…)
Man! See if I ever mention these things again. They’ve changed the date for the UK PowerShell user group meeting from July 29th to July 31st … But Marco Shaw will still be presenting about the /n software NetCmdlets. These are the (free for personal non-commercial use) cmdlets which let you tackle everything from IMAP [...]
(Mis)using “Localizable Data” to force users to set variables
Have you ever written a program or a script where there’s a setting which has to be set by the user the first time the app is run? With applications, we just show the configuration UI when it’s run for the first time, but how about with PowerShell scripts? Well, in PowerShell 2 (CTP2), there [...]
Searching the PoshCode Repository
I’ve been having problems with the search functionality on the PoshCOde repository, and I just thought I’d throw this up here because I just now solved the biggest problem: ranking. Up until now, the results have not been returned in order of relevance — this is because the search works using MySQL’s FULLTEXT BOOLEAN search, [...]
Rant: Sometimes I hate my job
So I’ve been asked to add a feature to one of the apps that I nominally took over when my former manager left … they want a management pane where certain authorized super users (to be decided later) can add data to the main lookup tables, and must be able to do clean up by [...]
PoshCode — The PowerShell Code Repository
Well, after some extensive hacking this long weekend, I’m happy to announce the opening of the refurbished (and renamed) PowerShell Code repository at it’s new domain: PoshCode.org with a few new features and a slightly overhauled look. I expect that soon we’ll be replacing the back end with something which has a few enhancements over [...]
PowerShell Script Repository and Code Signing
There’s been a lot of discussion on the #PowerShell IRC channel about code signing lately — mostly in response to my earlier posts (which I won’t link to here, because I should probably retract some of it after the discussions we’ve had). The discussion mostly revolves around how code signing applies to the PowerShell script [...]