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On Snoopy
Oisin asked, "What's with the Snoopy obsession?". To me, the Snoopy dance represents a state pure, unalloyed joy to which the only sensible response is a silly dance. In case you missed it: SNOOPY DANCE! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
Just when you thought it was safe to surf the internet….
A few weeks ago I posted a blog about Ye110beard's blog that had reworked the lyrics to AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" to be a tribute to PowerShell. I closed with the statement, "I'm looking forward to the video!". I THINK I CREATED A MONSTER...... :-) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MWWzrp3xkYY I believe that this video closes the book on the 2 great mysteries of life that have vexed me for years: Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visi...
PowerShell gets Redmond Magazine 2008 Editor's Choice Award
PowerShell continues to win awards with Redmond Magazine’s 2008 Editor’s “Slickest Time Saving Tool” co-winner to go along with PS’s Best of Tech-Ed Attendees award and Best of Tech-Ed Client awards. I said it before, I'll say it again: This train keeps gathering steam! SNOOPY DANCE! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
Block Comments
<Update 01/04/2012: This post was written in 2008, when PowerShell was in version 1. Block comments were introduced in Version 2.> One of the raging debates that have had within the team is the issue of whether to support block comments. In PowerShell, we have the comment character # e.g. # This is a test get-Process -Name LSASS # you can put a comment at the end of a line too There are times when you have a large set of lines that you need to comment out (e.g. code in progress, cutting out code to test something, function headers, etc). Some believe that we should support a block c...
Format-XML
Have you ever had an XML file that looks like crap? The problem is that XML is sorta the data encoding equivalent of Shimmer - sometimes its an encoding for programs and sometimes its an encoding for users. Our PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell pointed out that the output of Export-CLIXML looked like cra.... errrrrr .... well let's just say that was "programmer oriented". :-) Its true, we were thinking about programs consuming our XML not users. You'll find lots of XML like that in the world (one reason is that it saves a ton of space by eliminating whitespaces). So if you ever have a file lik...
Managing Remote WebSphere MQ via PowerShell/Should CMDLETS do their own Remoting?
Dale Lane of IBM announced that the latest version of the IBM PowerShell Library for WebSphere MQ now supports administering remote queue managers. You can read the details and see a couple of examples HERE. Kudos to Dale and that team! What this allows you to perform operations on multiple remote queue managers. Some of you might ask, "Why not just wait and let PowerShell V2 do the remoting for you?". I wanted to address that issue in this blog. First lets start with the conclusion: It is perfectly fine for Cmdlets to do their own remoting! So let's lay it out.&#...
Book Review: Windows PowerShell Cookbook
Richard Siddaway has a good review of Lee Holmes' Windows PowerShell Cookbook HERE. Read it in full to find out why he believes that Bruce Payette and I are both wrong when it comes to our view of Lee's book. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
PowerShell: "Highway to Hell"?
Today a search result for PowerShell pointed to a blog with the phrase "Highway to Hell" in it. I always like to read criticisms for ideas for things we should be doing better. Still, "highway to hell" didn't sound like it was going to be a fun read. I was wrong! It is a (positive) PowerShell song to the tune of "Highway to Hell". :-) That was not what I was expecting. You can read for yourself HERE. I'm looking forward to the video! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:...
www.PowerShell.It : Italian PowerShell Community Website
Kudos to Efran Cobisi for creating what I believe is the first Italian PowerShell community website at http://www.powershell.it Now native Italian speakers can discuss PowerShell topics and share scripts in their native tongue. Efran is looking other Italian speaking PowerShell users to contribute to the site. So if you are reading this and also speak Italian - please go visit his website and read/contribute. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell S...