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PowerShell PowerTip: Grabbing the location your script lives in

June 12, 2018 Jun 12, 2018 06/12/18
Kory Thacher
One super common thing in PowerShell is to design a script to consume particular files for data. Often times you are building the script right in the folder for your files. However, it can be annoying to give long, literal file paths to a file. Also, if you give that script to someone else, they need to edit that path to point at the right ...

Working with JSON data in PowerShell

June 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 06/5/18
Kory Thacher
Welcome back everyone! This week we will take another look at some common data types we might encounter in the real world: JSON data. JSON data is used pretty frequently on the web if you're hitting APIs. This not only includes external data (twitter, weather, marvel database), but often includes internal data to your company. It's nice to ...