Since I find myself spending so much time in a PowerShell console, I’m always trying to find ways to stay. I recently posted my version of a PowerShell script to send a message to Twitter. But that’s only half the story. If I want to check for recent tweets I have to switch to Firefox and the use the Twitterfox addon. But since everything in Twitter comes via a web page or RSS feed, it is pretty simple to use the System.Net.Webclient class in a PowerShell script to get what I want. To that end I wrote a function called Get-Tweet to return recent tweets.
Tag: RSS
What am I reading?
I never cease to be amazed by the amount of information you can get in the 21st century. Blogs and RSS feeds make the world a much smaller and cozier place and speed of knowledge transfer can be breathtaking. To that end, I thought I’d offer what I have in my blog reader.