Comments on: Is It Friday Yet?

By: David R. Longnecker

David R. Longnecker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:38:54 +0000

>>Heck, I might even throw in the voice object .

HAH! Something that reads off the $host and if your PowerShell window is still open past closing time–”warning” you via voice API to go home. I like it!

I’m posting up a quick post in a bit… got to thinking and since I tend to leave my PS window open all day, I added it to the window bar (or tab, since I use Console2). More on that in a few.

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:10:01 +0000

Another fun enhancement would be to use a different for the countdown method depending on how many days or hours are remaining. Maybe moving from red to green the closer you get. Heck, I might even throw in the voice object .

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:03:19 +0000

I like that change. The script started out “quick and dirty” and never moved much beyond it.

By: David R. Longnecker

David R. Longnecker — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:56:06 +0000

Hah! Cool and fun profile script add-on. I tossed this onto the end of my profile script so it pops out when I open up PowerShell (though, your alias idea is probably better since the console tends to be open all day).

I did tweak the output a bit to make it more readable…

For your “else” statement:

else {
$diff = $($tgif -(get-date))
write-host “Countdown to TGIF: $($diff.Days)d $($diff.Hours)h $($diff.Minutes)m” -fore red
}

This outputs a bit cleaner output:

Countdown to TGIF: 1d 1h 39m

Example on screen: http://bit.ly/3Lg6VM