Continuing my fun with PowerShell prompts and because we are in the Christmas season. I’m bringing back my Christmas countdown prompt. I have updated so it should work in both the traditional console and PowerShell ISE. The prompt displays a randomly colorized countdown message with some random decorations. You can find the updated code as…
Category: Miscellaneous
So You Want to Write a Book – Part 3
I’ve been working on what is turning into a series of articles for those of you who get the itch to write a book. If you are just joining the conversation, I encourage you to take a few minutes to read Part 1 and Part 2. In this article I want to cover a few…
So You Want to Write a Book
I received a message on Twitter looking for some guidance on writing a technology-related book. Like many of you, he has no previous publishing experience. Notice I didn’t say “writing experience”. If you are thinking of writing your first book, I am assuming you already are writing. Even if it has been nothing but blog…
Ideas and Inspiration
I received an email the other day from someone who is looking to expand their professional identity and brand. Of course one way to accomplish that is by writing and publishing or sharing your work with others. But this begs the natural question, “How do you know what to write about?” Or as I have…
More Power is on the way
For the past several months, I’ve been debating about what to do for the next iteration of my Hyper-V network. I rely on it heavily for my writing, course-ware development, and training. For awhile now I’ve been traveling with a Yoga 2 Pro which runs a few virtual machines, and a Gigabyte Brix unit with…
A PowerShell New Year
First off, let me thank all of you for your support and interest in my work this past year. Without it I’d be another old man sitting in his bathrobe talking to himself. I hope I can keep your interest in 2016. To wrap up the year and to bring in the new, i have…
Prompting for the Holidays
This should wait for a Friday Fun post but since it is December 1st I decided not to wait. It is that time of year again and my PowerShell prompt is colorful and sparkly. My holiday themed PowerShell prompt (Image Credit: Jeff Hicks) In my profile I have this code to use a new Prompt…
A Spooky PowerShell Halloween
I shared some code yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, but you may have missed it and I wanted to have a more permanent record so this is it. In the spirit of the holiday, I thought it would spooky to have a little fun with the PowerShell ISE. A spooky Halloween theme for the ISE…
Blog RSS Changes
After fighting the last few weeks trying to get Feedburner to work, I’ve decided to revise a few things. First off, the new RSS feed for my blog is https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/feed. The old link will remain active but eventually slowly die. But what I really hope you’ll consider is signing up for my mailing list. Yeah,…
How Hard Are You Working?
Recently in the PowerShell community on Google Plus, there was a discussion about software for creating graphical PowerShell scripts. This is a discussion I’ve seen many times over the years and extends beyond something to create graphical PowerShell tools. Sadly, the root issue of this discussion centers on the mind-set of today’s IT Pro, and…
Will Verizon FiOS Change My Life?
I work at home and for the longest time this has meant cable service for Internet access through Time-Warner Cable. Sadly, there was never a viable alternative so I always felt trapped. I need broadband speeds for work but had no choices, until now. Verizon recently decided to resume building out their FiOS network in…
Friday Fun – Let’s Play a Game
Today is going to be a lot of fun. A few years ago, back when we were still running PowerShell 2.0 everywhere, I created a module to run a Bingo game in a PowerShell session. I primarily wrote the module as a learning tool for beginners wanting to know more about how to construct a…
I Wanna Be Like You
Growing up, one of my favorite Disney movies was their adaption of The Jungle Book, and perhaps my favorite scene was King Louie’s production number “I Wanna Be Like You.” I think what really makes this song work is that we all have a desire to be like someone else, perhaps a role model or…
The Ultrabook Quest Continues
I’ve been continuing my research and deliberations over a new laptop, and am still leaning towards the ultrabook form factor. As to be expected there is no perfect, no-brainer solution, at least for me. What I have been able to do is prioritize the features I need. Since my primary need is for a presentation…
Friday Fun PowerShell Puzzlers
This week’s Friday Fun is a short PowerShell puzzler which I hope you’ll have some fun with and maybe even lead you to look something up and how knows what that might lead to! The following scrambled terms are all PowerShell related. The ones asterisked are PowerShell 3.0 related, but you’ve probably heard about the…