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Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we will be speaking Alex Riedel, lead developer for PrimalScript at SAPIEN Technologies. While he was on he gave away a bunch of great prizes to the people on Ustream (see what you missed?) We also have a contest for a copy of PrimalScript at the end of the show if you missed it live.
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- John Noble blogged about new PowerShell book in the works from Richard Siddaway “PowerShell in Practice”
- Richard Siddaway is doing a Powershell talk in Sweden on Sept 16th
- The PowerShell Guy : PowerTab V2 Examples – Mow’s putting some cool stuff into PowerTab v.next
- Change of the Guard at the Scripting Center – New Scripting Guys: Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer
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We had a great talk with Alex Riedel, listen to the show to hear it!
Resource
- Using conditional operators from BSonPosh “-not(match|like)”
- Aleksandar has a blog post on using an LDAP query instead of “Where”
- Advanced Microsoft SQL Server PowerShell Tips and Tricks
- Pimp your prompt!
- Joel from HuddledMasses.org
- Tomas R at Commonality (Hal’s using this one now)
- Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Introducing PowerShell Prompt Here
- Jeff Hicks from SAPIEN has posted three different ones.
- Here’s a “classic” article from 2006 with some more neat prompt tips.
Tips
- Jonathan’s VDM script goodness
- Get PDF version of files > Windows PowerShell Discussion Forums > PowerShellCommunity.org – On this thread from PowerShellCommunity.org, Shay found out how to read the PDF version in a one-liner
- script to find local group members (http://poshcode.org/544 )
- script wrapper for netstat (http://poshcode.org/560 )
What an awesome podcast! I’ve been using PrimalScript for a year or two now for PowerShell & have watched it mature. I’ve been in the Sapien forums where Alex has answered many of my questions & implemented several of my suggestions. It was a pleasure getting to hear him talk.
One point I wanted to make (although this is not the right place for it, I understand), is that I was disappointed by his response to Jon’s question of finding an opening bracket. His response was to press CTRL+M. Okay, fine, but what other editors do that PrimalScript doesn’t (but SHOULD) do is HIGHLIGHT the bracket pairs and/or draw connecting lines for the brackets. This prevents you from having to press CTRL+M on every bracket until you find the offending line of code missing the closing bracket. Anyway, I’ll have to ping him in the Sapien forums about that.
Gotta go for now. Thanks again for such a great interview. I hope to hear him on the show again in the future.
Hi Matt. Thanks for the nice words.
I misunderstood the question about brackets, Hal and Jon already straightened me out
I’ll make sure it is in PrimalScript 2009….
Alex