A discussion in one of my Slack channels caught my eye today around someone’s reflections in a github repo regarding DSC. The posted comment that introduced the link was titled “DSC from a newbie perspective”, and I thought “Oh? I’m a newbie too, I wonder if we’re thinking the same things.” A little …
As you may know, Jeffrey Snover and I have, for some time, been on a “servers are cattle, not pets” kick. Meaning, servers shouldn’t be special, individualized snowflakes. They should be, in many regards, appliances. One dies, you eat it and make another. They don’t have …
Regular Expressions is often referred to as wizardry or magic and for that reason I stayed away from it for most of my career. I used it only when I had to and most of the time just reused examples that I found online. There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but I never took the time to …
As a quick reminder, our Call for Topics is still open for a few more days! Summ. Summit is very much intended to be a kind of mega-user group, not a “conference,” so don’t assume all the “professional” speakers have taken up all the speaking slots. We want you to …
Remember that our Call for Topics is still open until the end of September, if you’d like to submit. And, from our Summit Alumni Slack channel, here are a few things people said they’d like to see… I would love to see a session on what it takes to build a PKI infrastructure in …
About a week or two before Devops Camp, the attendees were asked how much experience they had using Pester, because another attendee was preparing a discussion on Pester and wanted to gauge the other attendees’ comfort level. Learning Pester had been on my to-do list for a while, but I had …
Jason Helmick and I were talking last night, and we got onto the topic of expertise and respect. Kind of, “once someone really gets to that expert level, and they surpass their teacher in knowledge, you really respect them.” I disagreed, and said, “no, I respect them the minute …
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of days, you already know that Microsoft announced last Thursday that the shell/scripting language formerly known as “Windows Powershell” is now supported on Linux and MacOS and that Powershell has been open-sourced. And for days, thoughts …
As PowerShell begins to move into a cross-platform world, it’s important to really understand “why PowerShell.” What is it, exactly, that sets PowerShell apart? Notice that I do not mean, “what makes it better,” because “better” is something you’ll …
Sometimes, as a developer, you want to be be able to keep track of free space on a drive, the size of a log, the load on your CPU, the number of users logged in, etc. With PowerShell, it is typically just a matter of finding the right cmdlet amidst the large (and rapidly growing) pool of cmdlets …
