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Build a hexadecimal clock in PowerShell – Part 5

June 24, 2016 Jun 24, 2016 06/24/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn to split data in a Here-String and get a console beep. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here with our final day this week to wrap up building a hexadecimal clock in PowerShell. When we finished yesterday, we ran across a snag in our output. Most of our rows kept dropping to the immediate left of the screen as in the ...

Build a hexadecimal clock in PowerShell – Part 4

June 23, 2016 Jun 23, 2016 06/23/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use PowerShell to navigate the neutral zone. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to continue forth (not COBOL nor even Visual BASIC) into our silly yet fun quest to build a hexadecimal clock by using the PowerShell console. It does seem silly, doesn’t it? Yet, consider some of the things that we’ve learned in ...

Build a hexadecimal clock in PowerShell – Part 3

June 22, 2016 Jun 22, 2016 06/22/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Select-String in PowerShell to identify data and match it to an array. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to play more with our funky, nerdy, cool hexadecimal clock. Yesterday we built out a small function named Get-HexTime to give us the current time that displays hex digits instead of decimal for hours, ...