The Admin Development Model and Send-Snippet

PowerShell TeamDecember 31, 2006Dec 31, 200612/31/06

One of the things that motivated us to develop PowerShell was the belief that we (Microsoft) had been doing a poor job supporting the Admin Development Model.  All the effort seemed to have gone into treating Admins as GUI-only users or as though they were developers that couldn't handle the complexity of parenthesis. ...

Sad State of Blogging Software

PowerShell TeamDecember 31, 2006Dec 31, 200612/31/06

The state of blogging software is pretty sad.  I must be a harder problem than I can imagine (of course there are other explainations but I'll be gracious and go with that one for now.) I started a entry, got distracted and posted another blog entry.  The next day, I came to my computer and noticed that I hadn't ...

Use Copy-Property to Make it Easier to Write, Read,and Review Scripts

PowerShell TeamDecember 29, 2006Dec 29, 200612/29/06

<Updated script on 1/1/2007 to reflect fixes suggested by James Manning>  Dennis Verwiej is doing some great PowerShell work over at his blog Just PowerShell It at http://dverweij.spaces.live.com/ .   Recently he posted a blog entry Import Citrix Published Application in which he Imports a CSV file...

Mandelbrot One-liner

PowerShell TeamDecember 28, 2006Dec 28, 200612/28/06

WaiKin Wong sent me a Mandelbrot one-liner: $i=$j=$r=$x=$y=[float]-16; while(($y++) -lt 15) {for($x=0; ($x++) -lt 84; write-host (" .:-;!/>`)|&IH%*#"[$k -band 15]) -nonewline){$i=$k=$r=[float]0;do{$j=$r*$r-$i*$i-2+$x/25;$i=2*$r*$i+$y/10;$r=$j} while (($j*$j+$i*$i) -lt 11 -band ($k++) -lt 111)}" "} This produces the following results...

Resolve to blog your automation

PowerShell TeamDecember 27, 2006Dec 27, 200612/27/06

In response to my entry Philosophy of Automation, Tim Long blogged a response where he advanced the idea that people should make a New Year's Resolution to start a blog (if you have already).  That is a great idea.  I would follow on and further encourage you to set up a system to remind yourself at least once a week to make a blog ...

Send-SignatureToClipBoard

PowerShell TeamDecember 25, 2006Dec 25, 200612/25/06

In my previous blog about the Philosophy of Automation, I encouraged everyone to share their automation even when it was small.  Here I'll follow that advice. I find myself doing quite a bit of blogging and commenting on other people's blogs.  I am often struck by the sorry state of blogging software.  I could go on for ...