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A Holiday Special: Rusty the Red-Eyed Scripter, Part 1

Summary: Rusty the Red-Eyed Scripter discovers compressing files and working with the Clipboard in PowerShell 5.0. It’s that time again folks—time for the long awaited holiday tradition on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. Get ready for some horrible music and a fun story involving PowerShell. This is our sixth year running the ...

Weekend Scripter: Exploring Palindrome Sentences with PowerShell

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about identifying palindromes that are more than a single word. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the coolest things about palindromes is that they can be formed with sentences. It is also what makes them the most subtle. For example, whereas it is pretty obvious that mom, ...