Minding the gap between administration and development
Overview If you’re a motorcycle rider, like me, you might be interested in recording audio and video during your rides. Recording your ride can offer both entertainment and security. I bought a Bilt Techno 2.0 Evolution modular helmet from Cyclegear, which also included an integrated Sena DWO-5 headset (Sena SMH-5 equivalent functionality). This headset works … Read moreMotorcycle vlogging via Bluetooth / Android
If you’re writing software, running quality assurance (QA) tests, or testing out a new data management tool, you might want to generate some random data. Although there are many other options out there, you can use Python for this purpose. There’s an open source Python package called Faker that will generate random data, including first … Read moreGenerate Random Fake People with Python
Background Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud9 provides a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) where you can author, test, and deploy your .NET Core and PowerShell-based applications. You can connect to your Cloud9 IDE using a web browser. One of my favorite features offered by Cloud9, that enables developers to comfortably use it, is the support … Read moreSet up a PowerShell and .NET Development Environment with AWS Cloud9 and Amazon EC2
Sometimes you’ll need to initialize a new buffer as an array of bytes. For example, if you want to generate random data using the NextBytes() method on the System.Random class, you need to pass in a byte array buffer for the method to write to. Creating a byte array in PowerShell may not be immediately … Read moreInitialize a Byte Array in PowerShell
Are you on Mac OS and need to keep your AWS PowerShell module up-to-date? As you’ve probably noticed, there are frequently new versions of the AWS PowerShell module being released, to keep pace with new services and service features being added to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Updating PowerShell modules manually can take up extra … Read moreKeep AWS PowerShell Module Updated on Mac OS
I keep forgetting the names of the parameters that are passed into the ScriptBlock handlers for PowerShell Intellisense (aka. tab-completion / auto-completion). Hence, I’m posting the list of parameters here, along with a simple example. $commandName – the name of the PowerShell command that Intellisense was invoked for. $parameterName – the name of the parameter … Read morePowerShell Intellisense: ScriptBlock Handler Parameters
Someone recently was asking for an AWS CloudFormation template, in YAML format as opposed to JSON, that would deploy an EC2 instance running Windows Server, and supported a PowerShell-based UserData script. In response to this, I created the YAML snippet below. Note that the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID is unique to the us-west-2 (Oregon) … Read moreCloudFormation YAML: EC2 Instance with PowerShell UserData
If you’ve accidentally deleted the PowerShell Gallery (PSGallery) repository from your system, you can restore it using the following command. Register-PSRepository -Default In fact, if you try to re-register the PowerShell Gallery using the same method that you’d register a custom repository (see below) … $Repository = @{ Name = ‘PSGallery’ SourceLocation = ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/’ PublishLocation … Read moreRestore Default PowerShell Gallery Repository
As an AWS customer writing programs against AWS service APIs, using the AWS Tools for PowerShell, you’ll often need to reference your AWS AccountID. For example, some service API calls require passing in an Amazon Resource Name (ARN), which contains your AWS AccountID as one of its parts. Much of the time, you won’t have … Read moreRetrieve AWS AccountID using PowerShell
In an exciting, new announcement on their blog, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just announced that EC2 Instances running Linux, and “are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form,” will support per-second billing. This includes AWS Batch and Elastic Map Reduce (EMR). Since 2006, when EC2 was launched, EC2 Instances were elastically billed by the hour. … Read moreAmazon EC2 Instances Will Support Per-Second Billing