PowerScripting Podcast

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to James Brundage about building websites with PowerShell Pipeworks

News

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• March 19th is the International PowerShell User Group Day

• Adam Driscoll is writing Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook which should be out in May

• Sarasota has its first IT Pro Camp Feb 18th with several PowerShell sessions!

• Techstravaganza is coming March 30th

• James Brundage will present at the Atlanta PowerShell User Group on Feb 21st

• The Rochester PowerShell usergroup is also meeting on Feb 21st

• The UK PowerShell group meets on Feb 28th

• Mark Minasi’s 6th annual conference is coming week of April 29th and will be featuring Ed Wilson and Don Jones

Interview

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Links

• http://scriptcop.start-automating.com  – powershell best practices
  http://ezout.start-automating.com – types and formatting
  http://show-ui.com – You know it
  http://powershellpipeworks.com/ – Web Development with PowerShell
  http://pingme.start-automating.com  – Ping monitor
  http://heatmap.start-automating.com – CPU monitoring module
  http://securesettings.start-automating.com – Cred / Secret Data Management
  http://codecraft.start-automating.com/ – code generation fun
  http://autobrowse.start-automating.com / – IE Automation

• Update-Web.com (blog about Pipeworks)

• Pipeworks sites and examples:

  • Heatmap

  • SecureSettings

  • EZOut

  • Show-Logo

  • Show-PowerShell

Chatroom Banter

[21:55:08] <Vern_Anderson> To the cloud!

[22:01:55] <BSonPosh> I feel so disconnected 😉

[22:02:26] <vNoob> James has a very similar talking style to Don, atleast that how it sounds to me

[22:03:45] <vNoob> Man you guys own a LOT of domains 🙂

[22:05:06] <ScottMoss> fyi Steam has Plants vs. Zombies for 2 bucks.. nice

[22:05:16] <JonWalz> I love that game

[22:25:21] <vNoob> ### sorry if this was already addressed…. But do the sites created and that run posh, handle site load as well as sites made the traditional way

[22:27:50] <Jaykul> ## does it multi-thread request handling?

[22:28:16] <Jaykul> ## does each request run on the same runspace?

[22:28:25] <Jaykul> ## or is it a new runspace every single time?

[22:30:29] <Jaykul> ## Do powershell scripters have to choose between learning web design and ending up with sites that look like yours?

[22:34:42] <Brian-AKA-Zuul> I just watched that movie “The Social Network”…I picture James writing Pipeworks while drunk in a single evening

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[22:38:23] <BSonPosh> my internet is flaky

[22:38:39] <halr9000> BSonPosh we noticed

[22:42:04] <Jaykul> ## Have you done any load profiling?  That is, serving a similar site in asp.net mvc and hitting them each with 200 simultaneous users to see machine load?

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The Question

James needs on his Mission to Mars: a laptop with PowerShell ISE

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mike Wells about SQL 2012 and SQLSpade

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• The 2012 Scripting Games have been announced!

• PowerShell Saturday is happening!

• It’s time for another PowerShell Deep Dive

• New PowerShell user group is starting up in Boston, MA

• The SQL Server 2012 Special Ops Tour kicks off in Atlanta March 5th

• Jan Egil Ring posted his PowerShell sessions from the NIC conference

• PowerShell PowerCamp

  • Helsinki March 10-11

  • London April 21-22

• The PowerScripting Podcast will be at SQLSaturday #111 in Atlanta on Apr 14th!

• New version of the Cisco UCSPowerTool v 0.9.6 recently shipped and it has 1400 cmdlets!

• Also new from NetApp: Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit v 1.7 was just released (962 cmdlets)

Interview

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Links

• SQLSpade on Codeplex

• Intro to SQLSpade (blog post)

• How to slipstream SQL Server

Chatroom Banter

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[21:47:11] <Brian-AKA-Zuul> what up

[21:47:14] <halr9000> Brian-AKA-Zuul we were talking about you

[21:47:14] <Brian-AKA-Zuul> you were?

[21:47:34] <halr9000> haha we were totally not mocking you that bad

[21:51:58] <Josh_Atwell> Mike looks at sql tables and sees blondes, brunettes, redheads 🙂

[22:07:20] <StartAutomating> I like it.  You should go for a “Sam Spade” themed look

[22:07:42] <halr9000> The only look that I can do is “Blue Steel”

[22:16:33] <ToENuFF> ## Correction to my question – Can you move the master, model, msdb mdf and ldf to specific drives and directories with your tool?

[22:12:29] <StartAutomating> ## what sort of styles of automation did you have do to (screen scrape / command line drive / data files/  existing scripts?)

[22:12:48] <cmill19> ##how is hard/easy is it to add/remove tasks to SQLSPADE

[22:15:37] <StartAutomating> ## Is it XML ?  Does it store data securely?

hr> can you kick off remote installs?

[22:17:36] <cmill19> #Have your tried server core

[22:17:37] <StartAutomating> ## Can you make that order customizable ?  How much of the tech is specific to SQL server and how much is general automation?

hr> HTML log? Why?

[22:21:49] <cmill19> ##how does the html log work on server core

The Question

Super Power: MacGyver!