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A discussion in one of my Slack channels caught my eye today around someone’s reflections in a github repo regarding DSC. The posted comment that introduced the link was titled “DSC from a newbie perspective”, and I thought “Oh? I’m a newbie too, I wonder if we’re thinking the same things.” A little …
As you may know, Jeffrey Snover and I have, for some time, been on a “servers are cattle, not pets” kick. Meaning, servers shouldn’t be special, individualized snowflakes. They should be, in many regards, appliances. One dies, you eat it and make another. They don’t have …
Regular Expressions is often referred to as wizardry or magic and for that reason I stayed away from it for most of my career. I used it only when I had to and most of the time just reused examples that I found online. There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but I never took the time to …
The deadline for the submission of proposals for the 2017 has passed. We are NOT taking any new submissions. if you’ve been in communication regarding a submission thats fine its still under consideration and I’ll be in touch. On the positive side the call for speakers for the European PowerShell …
Last weekend we hosted our second PowerShell Saturday, this time the event was hosted by IPsoft in Amsterdam. During this event members of the Dutch PowerShell User Group gathered together to view a number of presentations and to engage in lively discussions on the various new developments in the …
With Ignite fast-approaching, here’s what’s up - and this is intended to be a “community post,” meaning I’d love it if you could add your own PowerShell At Ignite notes in the comments, including sessions you’re looking forward to! On **Sunday evening, **while not …
It’s a bit of a sad day at The DevOps Collective, which is the nonprofit that runs PowerShell.org. One of our Board of Directors members, Dave Wyatt, will be stepping down from his Director position this week. He wants to focus on his personal life a bit more, although he’s still going …
As a quick reminder, our Call for Topics is still open for a few more days! Summ. Summit is very much intended to be a kind of mega-user group, not a “conference,” so don’t assume all the “professional” speakers have taken up all the speaking slots. We want you to …
Remember that our Call for Topics is still open until the end of September, if you’d like to submit. And, from our Summit Alumni Slack channel, here are a few things people said they’d like to see… I would love to see a session on what it takes to build a PKI infrastructure in …
About a week or two before Devops Camp, the attendees were asked how much experience they had using Pester, because another attendee was preparing a discussion on Pester and wanted to gauge the other attendees’ comfort level. Learning Pester had been on my to-do list for a while, but I had …
