Set PowerShell as your CLI of choice in Windows 8. WITH POWERSHELL

November 04, 2014 FoxDeploy

In a conversation on Twitter, I lamented with some friends that Hitting Windows+X in Windows 8 and above opens up the admin window, but still–In 2014–lists Command Prompt as the CLI.

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PushBullet + PowerShell = PowerBullet!

November 03, 2014 FoxDeploy

A friend and colleague of mine, Chris Townsend were talking over lunch recently, when he lamented that during a very long scripted process, he would have to manually check back in for status checks to see how this process was going, and might waste a whole weekend in front of the keyboard.  We began trying to think of ways to get notifications if he needed to intervene and manually do something.

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A primer on Docker from the Windows Perspective

October 29, 2014 FoxDeploy

If you’re keeping up with the Azure talks from TechEd Barcelona this week (and you should be!) you’ve heard a lot of mentions about Docker recently.

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Use Invoke-WebRequest to get your physical location

October 23, 2014 FoxDeploy

Hi all,

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Help your peers shine! Nominations for PowerShell Heroes are open

October 21, 2014 FoxDeploy

Do you know someone who has been helping the community, active on the forums, or otherwise kicking PowerShell butt and hasn’t been nominated for an MVP or other award?

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Get the daily forecast in your console, with PowerShell

October 20, 2014 FoxDeploy

Today I saw a post on reddit about scraping a webpage for weather information. Reading over the comments, I had an idea, and I quickly looked away wanting to try this myself before seeing what someone else posted.

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