Today someone in Xbox Live Operations (the folks that keep xBox Live alive and well) pinged me with a simple question about PowerShell with a complicated answer: “How do I create a class in PowerShell?” There’s two scenarios I find where people want classes. The first (and most common) is familiarity: the person wants to ma...
PowerShell MVP and prodigious PowerShell blogger Keith Hill has converted his very popular Effective PowerShell blog series into a FREE Ebook. You can download it HERE. Here is a taste of you'll you'll get: Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................
The MVP summit started yesterday and we meet with our MVPs today. This is one of my favorite events of the year. MVPs are people in the community that are very active (and helpful [yes - they look at both :-)] ) in a particular technology community. We get them all together each year and have a good exchange of ideas. We tel...
A while ago I did some experimentation with a PowerShell folksonomy. The idea was to tag internet content (blogs, comments, newsgroup replies, etc) with unique tags that search engines would pick up and make it easier to find exactly the information you needed. This effort stemmed from an documentation battle we had over the use of the...
Have you ever found yourself asking the question, "where did THAT come from?"? In PowerShell we try to give you mechanisms you can use to answer questions like that. We spend extra resources (memory, cpu cycles, etc) to do this because we focus in the performance of the PEOPLE using our software instead of the performan...
