TILFMOL #2 - PowerShell Help
This is part two of a short series of posts about things I discovered or had clarified by reading the excellent Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches book (recently released in 3rd edition).
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TILFMOL #1 - The PowerShell Pipeline
As introduced in my previous post, this is part one of a four part series that documents some things I discovered or had clarified by reading the excellent Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches book (recently released in 3rd edition).
Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches
I got started with PowerShell thanks to the encouragement and enthusiasm of a friend and former colleague. Following that, I’ve largely developed my knowledge through the standard combinations of trial + error + googling and more recently (as is evident) by doing my best to engage with and give back to the community.
Issue uploading Pester test results in to AppVeyor
While experimenting with AppVeyor to add Continuous Integration to my PowerShell projects (more detailed blog post to follow) I encountered a bug that meant that the Pester test results (uploaded via the NUnit formatted results file) were not appearing in the “Tests” tab of my AppVeyor project.
Create dynamic PowerShell functions with Parameter Sets
While developing a PowerShell function to query the API of the webcomic XKCD I decided to explore and implement Parameter Sets. These allow you to provide your users with different sets of parameters based on different use cases (assuming you have multiple use cases), which as a result provides a more dynamic set of functionality from a single cmdlet.
Powershell Slack Bot using the Real Time Messaging API
This post details how PowerShell can be used to run a custom Slack Bot that utilises the Slack RTM (Real Time Messaging) API.
A Slack Slash Command using Powershell Azure Functions
In my previous post I talked about creating a Powershell function to lookup terms in a large internal glossary I had collated. This post takes this a step further and creates a custom slash command integration in a Slack chatroom that calls out to a Powershell-based Azure Function to query my (now) Azure hosted glossary.
A Powershell cmdlet for looking up internal terms in a glossary
I’ve recently started a new role and as a result I have a lot of new business terms and acronyms to get to grips with. A list of about 50 of these were handed to me on my first day which was really helpful, but when I searched around the intranet and various other sources of documentation I found there were many more.