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 PowerShell but it sure was fun to put together. Here is the script I ran.

cls

Function PauseIt {
[cmdletbinding()]
Param()
    Write-Verbose "PauseIt"

    #wait for a key press
    $Running=$true
    #keep looping until a key is pressed
    While ($Running)  {
     if ($host.ui.RawUi.KeyAvailable) {
     $key = $host.ui.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
        if ($key) {
         $Running=$False  
         #check the value and if it is q or ESC, then bail out
         if ($key -match "q|27") {
           Write-Host "`r"
           Return "quit"
           } #if match q|27
        } #if $key
      } #if key available
      Start-Sleep -millisecond 100
    } #end While
} #PauseIt function

Function TypeLine {
Param(
[string]$Text,
[switch]$NoPrompt
)

 If (-Not $NoPrompt) {
   Write-Host "PS C:\> " -NoNewline
 }
 $text.ToCharArray() | foreach {
   Write-host $_ -NoNewline
   start-sleep -Milliseconds (Get-Random -Minimum 50 -max 100)
 }
}

Write-Host "PS C:\> " -NoNewline

PauseIt

$v = new-object -ComObject Sapi.SPVoice
$v.Speak("Hello, and welcome to my world.") | out-Null

$Line = '$colors = [enum]::GetNames([consolecolor]) | where {$_ -ne $host.ui.RawUI.BackgroundColor}'
TypeLine $line -NoPrompt
Invoke-Expression $line
"`r"
$v.Speak("I have a special message.") | out-Null

$Line =  '$msg="Happy Birthday, Pluralsight!"'
TypeLine $line
$v.Speak("And a special way to say it, thanks to Jeff.") | out-Null
Invoke-Expression $line
"`r"
$Line = '$msg.ToCharArray() | foreach { write-host $_ -NoNewline -ForegroundColor (Get-Random $colors) -BackgroundColor (Get-Random $colors)} -end {"`n"}'
TypeLine $line
"`r"
Invoke-Expression $line
"`r"
$v.speak("Happy Birthday, Pluralsight. Now, where's the cake?") | Out-Null
$line = 'Get-Smarter -path Pluralsight -Subject PowerShell | Where {$_.trainer -eq "Jeff Hicks"}'
TypeLine $line
"`r"
Write-Host 'Success'
Write-Host "PS C:\>" -NoNewline

"`r"

No puppies were harmed in the making of this video. Enjoy and Happy Birthday!

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