For many Windows-oriented IT Pros, and I used to be one of them, regular expressions was an arcane topic that was too hard to learn. And we never really had a compelling need to learn because we were busy clicky-clicking everything. Then came PowerShell and we discovered, or maybe rediscovered, a whole new way to…
Tag: Pluralsight
Your First Day with PowerShell
I’m happy to let everyone know that my latest Pluralsight course is now available. “Your First Day with PowerShell” is a short course targeted at the absolute PowerShell beginner. I wanted to be there as it were as you started your very first day learning and using PowerShell. My goal was to be with you…
Testing PowerShell HashTables
So I’ve been watching the PowerShell Toolmaking Fundamentals course on Pluralsight authored by Adam Bertram. You may be surprised that I watch other PowerShell related courses, but I always pick up something I didn’t know about, find a new teaching technique or something else that makes me say, “that was cool.” I have found a…
Computer Certificate tools
In my Pluralsight course on Advanced DSC I used a few functions I wrote to make it easier to work with computer certificates. If you need to encrypt things like passwords in a DSC configuration, you must some type of certificate thumbprint as well as a copy of the certificate. The idea is that you…
PowerShell Play by Play with Don Jones
I’m very excited to tell you about this latest effort from Pluralsight. A few months ago I sat down with Don Jones, and we recorded a live course on getting started with PowerShell. The finished product has finally been released. Over the course of about an hour we talk about taking an idea or task…
DevOps Twitter Chat
This Thursday, February 26, I will be doing a live Twitter chat from 12PM to 1PM EST. The topic is DevOps but I’m sure we’ll talk about PowerShell and automation in general. Use hashtag #DevOpsChat to submit questions and follow along. You can follow me on Twitter as @JeffHicks. I hope you’ll join me.
New PowerShell Pluralsight Course
I am so happy to announce that my first course under the Pluralsight badge has been released. My latest course is titled PowerShell v4 New Features. This course is aimed at IT Pros with previous experience using PowerShell, especially PowerShell v3. The course runs just under 3 hours (although it felt much longer than that…
Happy Birthday Pluralsight
Pluralsight is celebrating its 10th birthday today. As part of their celebration they are running a quick contest with a cool prize. They also asked authors for a birthday greeting or message. Since all of my courses are PowerShell related it seemed only fitting to do something like this: Sure, hardly a practical use of…