Windows PowerShell in Action
by Bruce Payette · first published 2007
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…Manning book "PowerShell in Action" by Bruce Payette. The second edition is on Amazon but looks like a third edition is coming out in the Spring and you can pick up the EAP. https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-t...
on “Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?” ↗…object, you don't need to pick the file apart to isolate the date, you just filter on the date object. It's got a data type. That makes it really powerful, in my opinion. (Example largely pulled from "Windows Powershell in Action". I really like this book, as it goes into detail to describe /why/ things are they way they are in PowerShell, because he wrote it. =) https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-s...
on “New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft” ↗I've started reading this one and found it pretty good. As a beginner at least. https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-t...
on “Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?” ↗It's actually a bit more than that. In "Windows Powershell in Action", Bruce Payette (one of the co-designers of Powershell) states: "NOTE PowerShell uses the at symbol (@) in a few places, has $_ as a default variable, and uses & as the function call operator. These…
on “Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)” ↗It's explained in Windows PowerShell in Action that is written by Bruce Payette, one of the PowerShell designers: "before the first public release in 2006, the codename for this project was Monad. The name Monad comes from The Monadology by Gottfried…
on “Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Critic, Is Now Building Azure” ↗