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Powershell Summit = Expectations Exceeded

Holy cow, that was one of the best weeks of my life. This is more of a story than a direct event recap, but I hope that you will follow along. I was fortunate enough to attend the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit after becoming their first scholarship recipient. I could preface things more, but let’s just jump...

Powershell Summit = Expectations Exceeded

Holy cow, that was one of the best weeks of my life. This is more of a story than a direct event recap, but I hope that you will follow along. I was fortunate enough to attend the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit after becoming their first scholarship recipient. I could preface things more, but let’s just jump...

Adventures in Leetcode: PowerShell + Leetcode

Selection of problems and solutions from leetcode and interviewbit.

Regex and PowerShell Recap

Quick start or reference for Regex with PowerShell

New Blog on PDQ.com: PowerShell, VS Code, and a Raspberry Pi - Oh My!

Even a teeny tiny device, like a Raspberry Pi, can run PowerShell. Heck yes!

Solving PicoCTF 2019: General Skills using PowerShell

Learn how to solve the PicoCTF 2019 challenges using PowerShell when possible.

Using Invoke-WebRequest to Return Upcoming MMA Events

Let’s look at a simple example of using Invoke-WebRequest to return upcoming MMA events from whenarethefights.com

Adding New Color Schemes to Windows Terminal

Use PowerShell to download 200+ color schemes and add them to Windows Terminal.

Writing a PoshBot Plugin to Display TOPdesk Tickets and Assets

Lets go through the process of writing a PoshBot plugin together.

Parse TOPdesk Access Logs with PowerShell

Do you know who has logged into your TOPdesk environment? Did you know that TOPdesk offers you access logs? Unfortunately the process to access these is rather cumbersome. Manually downloading and reviewing the Access Logs would take too long. Let’s use PowerShell to help us improve our log review process.

Setup

Before we can begin downloading any access logs...

Downloading TOPdesk Database Backups with PowerShell

We are going to learn how to backup the TOPdesk database using PowerShell. By default TOPdesk takes a full backup daily and keeps it for 3 days. I want to take my own backups and keep them for longer.

Setup

Before you will be able to interact with folders you will need to ensure that you have the appropriate...

Iterate Over PSCustomObject Properties by Using THIS Hidden Property

Got a pscustomobject that you want to iterate through? Use the .psobject hidden property!

Comparisons Inside Arrays - Useful and Fancy!

I recently got some assistance from the ALWAYS helpful Joel Tallow with looking for ways to improve my code. He looked through some code and gave me some improvements. He also showed me some really cool bits of code and this post will cover one that I thought was useful.

# what does this...

Input Object Subproperty Tip - Get the value without accepting the whole object!

I was recently working on the TOPdeskPS module and came across the need to access a subproperty of an object that was being input.

[pscustomobject]@{ Property1 = 'value' Property2 = ([pscustomobject]@{ Subproperty1 =<span...

Updating HelpUri for a Large Module

Contributing to open source is something that I really enjoy doing and want to do more of. I have been using the PowerShell Framework while developing modules lately (check it out!) and realized that despite having a website and a copy of all of the commands’, running Get-Help with the -Online switch wasn’t taking me to the online help...

Downloading Coding Music With Invoke-WebRequest

After my last post where we wrote a function the start a pomodoro timer, I got a tweet from Michael Teske sharing some awesome music to use during your pomodoro timers.

Music to Code By

I love listening to music while I code so “Music to Code By” sounds awesome!...

A Toasty Pomodoro Timer

I’ve been putting some thought into how I can use my time more effectively and stumbled upon the Pomodoro Technique. The overly-simplified concept is that you work for 25 minutes and then take a 5 minute break. These are called Pomodoro timers and we are going to make our own with PowerShell.

PowerShell...

Using Invoke-WebRequest to Return Upcoming MMA Events

Let’s look at a simple example of using Invoke-WebRequest to return upcoming MMA events from whenarethefights.com

Downloading TOPdesk Database Backups with PowerShell

We are going to learn how to backup the TOPdesk database using PowerShell. By default TOPdesk takes a full backup daily and keeps it for 3 days. I want to take my own backups and keep them for longer.

Setup

Before you will be able to interact with folders you will need to ensure that you have the appropriate...

Downloading Coding Music With Invoke-WebRequest

After my last post where we wrote a function the start a pomodoro timer, I got a tweet from Michael Teske sharing some awesome music to use during your pomodoro timers.

Music to Code By

I love listening to music while I code so “Music to Code By” sounds awesome!...

Iterate Over PSCustomObject Properties by Using THIS Hidden Property

Got a pscustomobject that you want to iterate through? Use the .psobject hidden property!

Downloading TOPdesk Database Backups with PowerShell

We are going to learn how to backup the TOPdesk database using PowerShell. By default TOPdesk takes a full backup daily and keeps it for 3 days. I want to take my own backups and keep them for longer.

Setup

Before you will be able to interact with folders you will need to ensure that you have the appropriate...

Writing a PoshBot Plugin to Display TOPdesk Tickets and Assets

Lets go through the process of writing a PoshBot plugin together.

Parse TOPdesk Access Logs with PowerShell

Do you know who has logged into your TOPdesk environment? Did you know that TOPdesk offers you access logs? Unfortunately the process to access these is rather cumbersome. Manually downloading and reviewing the Access Logs would take too long. Let’s use PowerShell to help us improve our log review process.

Setup

Before we can begin downloading any access logs...

Downloading TOPdesk Database Backups with PowerShell

We are going to learn how to backup the TOPdesk database using PowerShell. By default TOPdesk takes a full backup daily and keeps it for 3 days. I want to take my own backups and keep them for longer.

Setup

Before you will be able to interact with folders you will need to ensure that you have the appropriate...

Parse TOPdesk Access Logs with PowerShell

Do you know who has logged into your TOPdesk environment? Did you know that TOPdesk offers you access logs? Unfortunately the process to access these is rather cumbersome. Manually downloading and reviewing the Access Logs would take too long. Let’s use PowerShell to help us improve our log review process.

Setup

Before we can begin downloading any access logs...

Writing a PoshBot Plugin to Display TOPdesk Tickets and Assets

Lets go through the process of writing a PoshBot plugin together.

Adding New Color Schemes to Windows Terminal

Use PowerShell to download 200+ color schemes and add them to Windows Terminal.

Solving PicoCTF 2019: General Skills using PowerShell

Learn how to solve the PicoCTF 2019 challenges using PowerShell when possible.

JavaScript Basics

Notes that I’ve taken as I’ve been learning JavaScript.

New Blog on PDQ.com: PowerShell, VS Code, and a Raspberry Pi - Oh My!

Even a teeny tiny device, like a Raspberry Pi, can run PowerShell. Heck yes!

Regex and PowerShell Recap

Quick start or reference for Regex with PowerShell

Adventures in Leetcode: PowerShell + Leetcode

Selection of problems and solutions from leetcode and interviewbit.