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Friday Fun with PSQuizzes

Posted on August 25, 2023August 25, 2023

Time to get back to the to blog. I’ve been working through my backlog of projects. These are things that I started writing or updating but then got pushed to the back of the line. One of these projects is a PowerShell module I wrote as a teaching tool. The idea was to create short…

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Friday Fun – Painting a Pretty Picture with PowerShell

Posted on February 11, 2022February 11, 2022

A few months ago, I wrote about my PSClock module. This is a set of PowerShell commands for creating a digital clock using a transparent WPF form. You can install the module from the PowerShell Gallery. The repository can be found at https://github.com/jdhitsolutions/PSClock. Because my Windows wallpaper changes throughout the day, sometimes I need to…

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Friday Fun: PowerShell Console Editing

Posted on October 29, 2021October 29, 2021

The other day I read an interesting article on Adam Bertram’s blog about editing files with a text editor in PowerShell. Naturally, the PowerShell wheels in my head began turning. While I was intrigued by some of the options in the article, I’ve in fact installed the Micro editor to play with, I realized I…

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Friday Fun: A PowerShell Welcome

Posted on October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

I realized it had been a while since I wrote a Friday Fun post. These posts are intended to demonstrate PowerShell in a fun and often non-practical way. The end result is generally irrelevant. The PowerShell scripting techniques and concepts I use are the real takeaways. The task is nothing more than a means to…

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Friday Fun PowerShell ASCII Art

Posted on February 14, 2020February 14, 2020

Today’s post is definitely on the fun side. In fact, I apologize in advance for the afternoon you are about to blow playing with this code. Those of you of a certain age will recall dial up modems and bulletin boards. Part of the experience was visual. Board operators often displayed the name of their…

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Friday Fun: Taking a Shortcut Path in Your PowerShell Prompt

Posted on January 3, 2020January 3, 2020

To kick off the new year I thought I’d take a shortcut and reclaim some wasted space in my PowerShell prompt. I know I run into this issue during classes and conferences. Perhaps you encounter it as well. You are in in the PowerShell console and have ended up in a deep directory structure so…

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Revised Everything PowerShell Prompt

Posted on December 7, 2018January 23, 2019

Since it is Friday and time for some more PowerShell fun, and I’ve been sharing some of my prompt functions, I thought I’d re-share my kitchen sink prompt. This PowerShell prompt function does *a lot* to things and gives you a snapshot view of your system everytime you press enter. It will work cross-platform, but…

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Friday Fun with Timely PowerShell Prompts

Posted on November 30, 2018

If PowerShell is a part of your daily routine, you most likely have a console window open all day. In addition to using PowerShell to get stuff done, you can use PowerShell to keep you on track. I’ve written before and talked about how I use PowerShell to manage my day. You may not need…

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More Fun with PowerShell Thrillers

Posted on November 20, 2018

Last week I posted a Friday Fun article about using PowerShell to create a synopsis for a hypothetical thriller novel. Naturally I wasn’t satisfied to leave it at that. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good start. But I needed to take the next logical step. I had a script, but that meant having…

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Friday Fun: PowerShell Thriller Revisited

Posted on November 16, 2018

A number of years ago I shared a fun PowerShell script that generated a description of a new thriller you might find in the action thriller section of your local book store. I modeled it after the works of authors like Vince Flynn, Ben Coes and James Rollins. I’m a big fan and of these…

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Friday Fun: Perk Up Your PowerShell Prompt

Posted on April 6, 2018

I haven’t written a Friday Fun post in quite a while. Often these posts don’t have much practical value but hopefully illustrate a concept or technique. Although what I have today is something you could use immediately. I have a version of a PowerShell prompt function that will color code your location based on the…

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Friday Fun: A Long Time Ago in a PowerShell Universe Far, Far Away

Posted on December 1, 2017

With the upcoming release of the next Star Wars movie, I thought I would revisit my PowerShell script that generates your Star Wars universe name. Sure, it is contrived and completely impractical, but I’m betting you are curious nonetheless. My previous version as a simple script with hard coded values which meant you had to…

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Friday Fun: PowerShell Anagrams

Posted on June 23, 2017

Maybe it’s my liberal arts background but I love words and word games. I have a constant pile of crosswords and enjoy tormenting my kids (and wife) with puns.  I am also fascinated with word hacks like palindromes and anagrams. An anagram is where you take a word like ‘pot’ and rearrange the letters to…

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Friday Fun: Timing is Everything

Posted on July 8, 2016

For today’s fun I want to introduce you to a PowerShell project I’ve been working on. As with many of these Friday Fun projects this is something that is hardly groundbreaking but it could be fun to use and hopefully serves an educational purpose.  What I have is a module called MyTimer that contains several…

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Friday Fun: Well That’s a Fine ToDo!

Posted on July 1, 2016

Today’s Friday Fun isn’t exactly groundbreaking but you might find it useful in your PowerShell script development process. You might even learn a little something about the PowerShell ISE which is really the point of these articles anyway. How many times have you been working on a script or PowerShell tool and know that you’ll…

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