I just changed the syntax highlighting used by the site (to SyntaxHighlighter Evolved). One reason is that it’s much easier to use.
I have tried to go through the older posts and update the markup to include the proper codes to highlight using the new plugin. If you notice one that doesn’t look quite right, let me know.
Mike
Just a quick note to let you know that I haven’t given up on writing about PowerShell best practices. A few things which have derailed my thinking. My first “best practice” I thought was a no-brainer. After I wrote it I got thinking about what actual benefit there was to sticking to single-quotes rather than …
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I’m going to kick off this series with a no-brainer. In PowerShell, there are 2 ways to quote strings, using single-quotes (‘) or double-quotes (“). This is probably not a surprise to you if you’ve seen PowerShell scripts before. A “best practice” in PowerShell is that you should always default to using single-quotes unless you …
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If you’ve never heard of splatting in PowerShell or possibly read about it but never used it, you should probably consider it. Briefly, splatting is the ability to package up parameters into a hashtable and use the hashtable to supply the parameters to a function call. The parameters which are passed into a function automatically …
Did you ever find yourself knowing that you had written a function but you couldn’t remember which module you put it in? If you have the module imported, you can find out with this: Note that I am defiantly using the “dir” alias for get-childitem even though everyone says not to. I’ll be a rulebreaker …
I’ve been doing some thinking about PowerShell Remoting for a project at work and realized that I hadn’t ever set up remoting on my “home” laptop. I’m not in a domain, so remoting configuration is a bit different. In any case, I would be using the same machine as source and target of the remoting …
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If you’ve done much looking around, you know that there’s an awful lot of great information about PowerShell available on the web. The community that has formed around this product is one of its strengths. You’re probably familiar with the name Tobias Weltner. His Master-PowerShell e-book has long been a resource that I’ve turned to …
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I recently got thinking about the -AsCustomObject switch for the Import-Module cmdlet. I have seen it several times in discussions of implementing “classes” in PowerShell. Here’s a typical (i.e. trivial) example: With that module, we can do the standard module stuff: Ok, that was way too basic. Here’s something a lot closer to the topic …
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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about “idiomatic PowerShell” since my last post and my thinking led me to an idea that I haven’t actually used, but seems like the kind of thing that people would do in PowerShell. If I were writing a script that needed to get a “bunch of things” from …
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I think that PowerShell is a fairly readable language, once you’re used to its unique features. Naming functions (cmdlets) with an embedded hyphen, using -eq instead of the equals sign (and similarly for other operators) and not using commas to delimit parameters in a function call (but using them in a method call) are all …
