Huddled Masses
You can do more than breathe for free…
December 18th, 2008 | 
Author: [new] EDIT: We found out this evening that it was suppose to ship tomorrow, but isn’t going to anymore because they heard about a (possible) bug and are delaying release to investigate (and fix it).
while($true){
$items = Invoke-Http get http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Results.aspx @{freetext="powershell"; nr=50; sortCriteria="date"} |
Receive-Http xml "//*[@id='results']/table/tr/td/p/a" |
where {$_."#text"}
if($items.Count -gt 47 ) {
Out-Voice "There is a new PowerShell Release";
Start "http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/$($items[0].href)"
throw "Confetti"
}
sleep 30
}
Disclaimer: it wasn’t really my idea. 
[new] Edit: Someone suggested I should link to the required PoshCode scripts:
- Invoke-Http and Receive-Http are in the HttpRest script
- Out-Voice
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to “require” those like a ruby GEM?
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Very Funny!!!