http://HuddledMasses.org You can do more than breathe for free... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:26:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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":http://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 ... http://HuddledMasses.org/poshcode-the-powershell-code-repository/ 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 ... http://HuddledMasses.org/powershell-script-repository-and-code-signing/ This continues a short series of posts about getting started with PowerShell ... with a few tips about things you can do to keep your "PowerShell profile":http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/manual/profile.mspx safe and organized. Your "profile" is the script that is automatically loaded when you start up PowerShell. Really, I _should_ say ... http://HuddledMasses.org/getting-started-with-powershell-2-part-2/ I've decided to spend part of this weekend organizing my -sock drawer- +PowerShell profile+, and since there doesn't seem to be a lot of best practices or prescriptive advice on setting up your PowerShell profile, I thought I'd write about how I do it, to help any new users out ... http://HuddledMasses.org/getting-started-with-powershell-2-part-1/ The cool thing about the way authenticode signatures are implemented is that even if a script is signed with a self-issued certificate, you can still tell if the script has been tampered with... Check this out: [1]:ls SCRIPTS:\UnknownCert\Sample*.ps1,SCRIPTS:\TrustedCert\Sample*.ps1 | gas Directory: SCRIPTS:\UnknownCert\ SignerCertificate ... http://HuddledMasses.org/powershell-authenticode-signatures-and-trust/ So, I've been "called out":http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2008/06/17/scripting-sysadmin-meme.aspx on this latest "meme":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme posting by "/\/\o\/\/":http://thepowershellguy.com/ and although I usually just ignore these things, As with any curious developer, I had to "trace":http://get-powershell.com/ "this":http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2008/06/scripting-sysadmin-meme.html "thing":http://www.mindofroot.com/2008/06/10/scriptingsysadmin-meme/ "back":http://larryclarkin.com/2008/06/10/SoftwareDevelopmentMemeOrTagIAmNext.aspx "to":http://www.joshholmes.com/2008/06/06/SoftwareDevelopmentMeme.aspx "it's":http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/2008/06/software-development-meme.html "root":http://www.codinggeekette.com/2008/06/sarahs-steps-into-software-development.aspx "cause":http://www.michaeleatonconsulting.com/blog/archive/2008/06/04/how-did-you-get-started-in-software-development.aspx ... it turns out this started as a Software Development thing, and it was altered ... http://HuddledMasses.org/sysadmins-scripters-developers-and-memes/ One of the major security features of PowerShell is the support for code signing of scripts, so that you can set an execution policy that requires scripts to be signed before they can be run. Of course, it goes a bit further than that. When a script has been signed ... http://HuddledMasses.org/code-signing-with-openssl-and-powershell/ There are two requests that I get with overwhelming regularity for the PowerShell script repository: first, that I would add some sort of "browsing" functionality, and second, that it should have an RSS feed. Well, browsing may have to wait until a future iteration of the repository, but feeds are ... http://HuddledMasses.org/rss-feed-for-powershell-script-repository/ So, people keep talking about a better PowerShell script repository, and there's at least 3 or 4 different people working on improvements, but for now, the one we have is working ok, and already has hundreds of scripts in it -- but there hasn't been a way to add or ... http://HuddledMasses.org/automating-the-powershell-script-repository/ I was just having some fun with some recent blog posts... "WPF & PowerShell - Part 5":http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/05/26/wpf-powershell-part-5-using-wpf-powershell-modules.aspx has a script for "Get-Listbox" and for "Show-Control" and Halr9000 wrote a script he called "Get-PSBlogroll":http://halr9000.com/article/487 I had modified the example from the WPF post to create a listbox which will "start" whatever you ... http://HuddledMasses.org/ideas-for-writing-composable-powershell-scripts/