Minding the gap between administration and development
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
2017-07-13: This article was updated to reflect a new beta of the PowerShell SDK. Have you wanted to develop binary cmdlets using C# .NET for PowerShell Core on Mac OS X or Linux? If so, you and I are in the same boat. In this document, I’ll cover the steps necessary to develop C# cmdlets … Read moreDevelop Binary Cmdlets for PowerShell Core on Mac OS X
Visual Studio Code is an excellent developer tool for PowerShell projects. However, regardless of which type of project you’re developing (C#, Node.js, Python, etc.), you can benefit from changing your default shell to the powerful, object-oriented PowerShell shell. Now, you may not want to change your default shell for the entire operating system. VSCode thankfully … Read moreChange VSCode Integrated Terminal to PowerShell
A Little History on PowerShell Editors Since 2009, PowerShell users have been rewarded with an improvement over Notepad, for authoring PowerShell scripts and modules. That tool is called the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Editor (ISE), which was originally included out-of-box with Windows 7 and PowerShell version 2.0. Over the years, PowerShell developers have used tools like … Read moreWhy I use Visual Studio Code to write PowerShell
When you think of PowerShell, is writing a PowerShell “script” one of the first things you think of? If so, I implore you to read on and think about the next time you write any PowerShell code. During the rest of this article, I’ll attempt to describe a gap I’ve identified in the PowerShell ecosystem, … Read moreWrite PowerShell Modules, not Scripts
Evernote has recently come under fire for their new privacy policy that is intended to enable machine learning, with a goal of improving user experience. For some users, who aren’t storing critically sensitive data, this might not mean too much, but certain users have trade secrets that must be kept completely confidential. You can easily … Read moreEvernote Privacy Warning :: Disable Data Sharing