PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation console - a fully object oriented command line with integration into a suprising variety of tools.
PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation console - a fully object oriented command line with integration into a suprising variety of tools.
Saturday, May 30 2020
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This week I discovered that my Inbox had ballooned to over 20k messages. It was in desperate need of a clean-up. Here is how I automated that clean-up, getting it down to just under 1500 messages.
Saturday, January 26 2019
powershell
Almost any repetitive action that you do over and over can be automated. It’s not always the big things that need automation - sometimes all you need is a little helping hand. PowerShell is great for this - here’s an example.
Saturday, September 01 2018
psake
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The PowerShell based tool psake is a great way to orchestrate a build. It can also be used for many other kinds of orchestration. One of the trickiest parts is kicking off the process in the first place.
Saturday, February 17 2018
powershell
After noticing an oddity while publishing an update to this site, I ended up investigating minification as a way to ensure the results were more consistent.
Saturday, February 10 2018
powershell
Customizing your PowerShell prompt is an easy way to level-up your productivity in PowerShell. Here’s an update to my 2013 post that shows how my current prompt is constructed.
Saturday, November 18 2017
psake
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On my previous post on code coverage, someone asked if the coverage report could highlight areas where coverage decreased. It turns out that ReportGenerator can do this, but there’s room for improvement.
| Tracking time 11 Nov 2017 |
| The day my build broke 04 Nov 2017 |
| NuGet and .NET Core 28 Oct 2017 |
| .NET Core Builds 21 Oct 2017 |
| Test Coverage Reporting 07 Oct 2017 |
| Test Coverage with Opencover 30 Sep 2017 |
| NuGet packaging 23 Sep 2017 |
| Semantic versioning 16 Sep 2017 |
| Versioning 09 Sep 2017 |
| Launch Scripts 02 Sep 2017 |
| Controlling build types 26 Aug 2017 |
| Unit Testing 19 Aug 2017 |
| Readable output from a build 12 Aug 2017 |
| Finding MSBuild 05 Aug 2017 |
| An Introduction to Psake 29 Jul 2017 |
| Checklists, Automation and Consistency 19 Jul 2015 |
| HTML to Markdown with Powershell 24 May 2014 |
| Powershell Prompts 12 Dec 2013 |
| Powershell Rocks 14 Dec 2012 |
| It's a (PowerShell) Trap 06 Jan 2012 |