Don Jones

"Semantics" generally refers to the "meaning" or "sense" of something. Take this line from a recent Scripting Games entry: if ( Test-Connection $ComputerName ) Don't like it. Why? Well, because the code implies that Test...

Now that Microsoft's finally been able to start officially talking about v3, folks are getting even more excited. Amazing new features... workflow... simplified syntax... updatable help... complete cmdlet coverage... Slow down, tiger. Although folks...

So, one of the things I've been seeing float through my mailbox lately is the phrase "Remote PowerShell Debugging." It's mainly been in relation to a recent PowerShell-related product announcement from an ISV. Great product, no question...

So, I need some feedback. I'm in the middle of planning a book on PowerShell scripting and toolmaking (my favorite new gerund, and more descriptive, I feel, than scripting ). One of the things I want to cover is building GUI tools in PowerShell. And...

Understanding some of PowerShell's guts requires a pretty deep dive into the .NET Framework upon which the shell is built. In PowerShell v1 and v2, the shell was built upon the Common Language Runtime, or CLR, just like every other .NET application...

I recently moderated a Webinar for VMware, about their vCenter Protect Essentials Plus product (formerly a Shavlik product). Awesome PowerShell integration. So basically, this product (which I shall henceforth call vCPEP) is like System Center Configuration...

One of the things administrators often look to do with PowerShell is "scrape" Web pages. In the past, you had a couple of options: Use Internet Explorer's COM object (which can get a bit fugly), or use the .NET Framework's WebRequest...