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.
Category: Windows PowerShell
ActiveXPoSH is now a free download
The ActiveXPoSH COM component released with PrimalScript 2007 Service build 566 is now available as a free download from SAPIEN.com For more details please review this document: ActiveXPoSH.pdf ActiveXPoSH is free for personal and commercial use. You can download the installer from here.
PrimalScript 2007 Build 567 released
PrimalScript 2007 Build 567 has been released. Please log on to http://my.sapien.com to get the latest download and try the new PowerShell debugger. To learn more about this service release, please have a look at our service bulletin at http://support.sapien.com/bulletins/SB567.pdf
Out-Twitter
I finally finished my version of a PowerShell Out-Twitter function. This allows me to send a quick tweet directly from the PowerShell console. The original and inspiring Out-Twitter can be found at http://cid-5dec3b62d9308943.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/PowerShell%20Scripts/Twitter. My version will used cached credentials, check for tweet length and replace any URLs with Snurl’d URLs.
PowerShell Virtual Users Group Meeting
I somehow missed the announcement, but the next meeting of the PowerShell Virtual Users group is June 24th at 7:30PM EST. Scheduled to speak are Bruce Payette and Wassim Fayed from Microsoft and Hal Rottenberg. Click here to register.
Scripting/SysAdmin Meme
I saw that Kirk Munro called me out on on Steven Muraski’s Scripting/SysAdmin meme . Here’s my contribution to the meme.
Running PowerShell from PrimalScript
PrimalScript 2007, as many of you know, is configured by default to capture PowerShell output. Output is sent to the Output panel. However, there may be situations where you prefer to launch your script from PrimalScript but have it execute in an actual PowerShell session.
PowerShell Debugger included in the next service build
The upcoming service build for PrimalScript 2007 (Professional and Enterprise editions) will include a PowerShell debugger. For those of you who cant wait, here is a screenshot showing a sneak peek: http://www.primalscript.com/images/psnew/debuggershot.png It does support the usual functions you expect, Step In, Step Out, Step Over, Run to cursor, breakpoints, call stack, automatic variable view […]
TechEd 2008 Day 3
Day 3 –
Whew! That was intense! Its day three of Microsoft Tech-Ed and this morning was the big T-Shirt giveaway (part 2). While we had already handed out over 500 T-Shirts on Monday night, this morning was the last opportunity for attendees to get a t-shirt from us. So what, you ask? Well if an attendee is spotted wearing the SAPIEN Tech-Ed T-shirt at tonight’s attendee party at Universal Studios Theme park, they could win $1000 or any one of many fabulous prizes.
TechEd 2008 Day 2
Day 2…
I am actually writing this the morning of day 3, since yesterday left no time to sit down and write anything. It was a VERY busy day. The show floor was very busy. And although it was punctuated with occasional lulls, it was during those times that I was typically out of the booth speaking one-on-one with various people.
