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And we’re back! Ok, so in the last blog we began a conversation about delegates and using LINQ in PowerShell. In today’s post, I’m going to give an example of how it can be incredibly useful. Let’s talk about Joins. Joins In my line of work, I’m constantly running into …
Greetings PowerShellers! Lately, I’ve been itching to write something up on Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). You’ve likely encountered it if you’ve done any development in C#. LINQ is an incredibly powerful querying tool for performing look-ups, joins, ordering, and …
We’ve been conducting a survey of Summit 2018, now that it’s in the past, and wanted to share some of our immediate take-aways. The survey is still open for Summiteers until end of April 2018; you should have the URL in a follow-up email and can inquire in the Slack team if you need it.
This week at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018, we announced a change in leadership for The DevOps Collective, the nonprofit organization that runs Summit, PowerShell.org, and other programs. Stepping in as CEO will be former Director of Online Services Will Anderson (@gamerlivingwill on …
This is the commentary on the last Iron Scripter prequel puzzle: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 10 - A commentary Next weekend will mark the start of summit and you can work on the Iron Scripter preludes - 4 daily puzzles as a lead in to the main event on Thursday 12 April 2018. If you haven’t …
Here’s my commentary for puzzle 9: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 9 - A commentary In this puzzle you were cleaning up the TEMP folder and the recycle bin plus working with scheduled tasks and/or scheduled jobs. One more commentary to come - probably early next week rather than Sunday and then …
Information is now available at IronScripter.us for the at-Summit events, and participants are advised to refresh themselves on the Rules. Participants attending Summit should begin choosing their faction and getting to know their teammates in the faction-specific channels of the DevOps-Summit Slack …
Activity on the Iron Scripter forum and Slack channels has reduced for the last few puzzles leading me to believe that I’ve been giving out too many challenges. I’ve decided that this will be the last prequel puzzle: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 10 There won’t be a puzzle 11. Next …
In puzzle 8 you’re asked to create some local users, folders and a file. Then set permissions on the file. I’ve provided a commentary on the puzzle: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 8 - A commentary I’ve not presented full faction specific solutions as usual - view the forums and Slack …
You’re approaching the end of the prequels - soon it will be time for Iron Scripter. This week’s challenge involves the file system and the scheduling system - Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 9 In all things remember the goals of your faction. Please remember that we’re NOT grading …
