PowerScripting Podcast Episode 15 now out!

[Guest Hal Rottenberg]

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A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

 

In This Episode

 

* Special guest this episode, Joel Bennett aka “Jaykul” from

HuddledMasses.org

* “The Developer Show”

* New software releases, interviews, other goodies

 

News

 

* AD Cmdlets RTM (Dmitry’s PowerBlog)

”We kind of kept sticking to the fashion of perpetual betas for quite

some time now (since the first 1.0 beta released late March through the

RC 1.0.5 this fall) and we feel that the product is now feature rich and

stable enough…”

* Windows PowerShell Holiday Gift Guide: Books (Technet Scripting

Center)

”The Scripting Guys present their first-ever Windows PowerShell Holiday

Gift Guide. In this inaugural gift guide we survey some of the best

PowerShell software, script editors, cmdlets, and add-ins that money can

buy.”

* An Interview with Lee Holmes (Technet Scripting Center)

”Lee Holmes is a developer on the Windows PowerShell team and author of

the new book Windows PowerShell Cookbook (which includes a foreword

written by Scripting Guy Dean Tsaltas).”

* An Interview with Lee Holmes (A Couple of Admins Podcast)

* Cisco opening up IOS (Network World)

”Cisco’s plan to open up its venerable IOS routing software to customers

and third-party developers is a bold move designed to further the

company’s push to make the network the epicenter of the virtual data

center.”

 

Resources

 

* Expresso Regular Expression Development Tool

Very cool tool to create regexes. Free registration required.

 

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Tips

 

* Discussion on an email from listener John Cook:

 

“I’m a programmer, so I don’t find PowerShell (or VBScript etc.)

difficult as a language. What I find difficult about scripting is

scripting itself, such as recognizing when it’s worth the effort to

write a script. I’m a big fan of scripting, but I don’t write a lot of

scripts because I don’t think to do it. Or I’m doing something that’s

not repetitive enough to script.

 

I would find it interesting to listen to a show about scripting

strategy: organizing tasks so they can be scripted, etc.

 

I would also find it interesting to hear a discussion about testing

scripts. I’m a fan of test-driven development, but scripts are hard to

test. Scripts are full of side effects: creating or deleting files,

setting properties, sending email, etc.”

 

* Discussion with Joel about his new Windows Automation Snapin for

PowerShell (WASP)

o Blog post:

http://huddledmasses.org/window-gui-automation-from-powershell/

o New Codeplex project: http://codeplex.com/WASP

o This is basically an upgrade to the Win32.Windows snapin

Joel released a while back, the one thing that’s missing in this release

that was possible in that one is using frame-set definitions to position

windows. That will make it back in eventually, but in the meantime, I

present some major new additions which add up to the ability to do 90%

of what you’d want to do in testing or automating your winforms app’s UI.

* Also covered: Joel’s experiences developing a Windows

Presentation Foundation (WPF) PowerShell host.

 

One-Liner

 

(new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice).Speak("Hello $($env:UserName)",2)

 

 

 

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Hal Rottenberg <hal@halr9000.com>

Author, TechProsaic (http://halr9000.com)

Webmaster, Psi (http://psi-im.org)

Co-host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)