Template Podcast Title with Gilbert Sanchez

Episode Summary:

In this episode, we cover the value of templating and how Stucco can be used to improve our module development, both inside an organization and for personal projects. Gilbert shares his experience using Stucco on a personal project, a dice rolling module, and Jordan gets lost in the nerdery as the conversation moves to Tabletop RPG games. Once he is back on track we discuss the value of PowerShell meetups, and Gilbert gets the ball rolling for a bay area meetup. 

PowerShell & Global DevOps Summit. The Bar Sessions.

This episode features several conversations we captured while at the Global Summit. Ryan Richter talked to us about his experiences attending the OnRamp. Steven Judd talked about helping to run the remote summit, dad jokes, and music. Lastly, we talk with Harjit and Mick from the PowerShell news podcast, where we talk about how our podcasts came about and things we have learned and improved on since we started.

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Drinking From The Firehose Of Knowledge With Justin Grote

Episode Summary:

In this episode, we got to become familiar with a couple of Justin’s favorite things: deep dives into subjects and axioms. Justin has a lot of experience and insight into the “why” behind things, and he doesn’t hold back from sharing his wisdom with others. We covered human topics, like how Justin has dealt with imposter syndrome and developed his social skills over the years. We also covered technical topics like VS Code, the latest PowerShell extension release, PowerShell’s sacred promise, and more. For each subject, he has a surprising depth of knowledge. This is an episode worth taking notes on.

Talking Crescendo and Documentation with Stevie Coaster

Episode Summary:

In this episode, we talk about Crescendo, a development accelerator that can help rapidly build PowerShell cmdlets around existing command-line tools. We also discuss coding on twitch, writing with the customer in mind, and proper documentation practices.

Guest Bio and links:

Steve Valdinger is a Support Manager at Chocolatey Software with a passion for PowerShell and automation. He has given several talks at User Groups and The PowerShell Summit that have helped people elevate their scripts. His talk about writing for user experience is a must-watch. You can also catch him coding live on twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/steviecoaster.

The Value of Mentorship with Jeff Hicks

Episode Summary:

We caught up with Jeff Hicks at the PowerShell and Global DevOps summit. He talks about how he always wanted to be a teacher and how PowerShell has helped him achieve that. We also discuss the holy trinity of PowerShell Cmdlet: Get-Help, Get-Command, and Get-Member, which will help you find the command you need, learn how to use it, and give you everything you would want to know about the objects it returns. Those commands can help you move through almost any roadblock while learning PowerShell. We end with a general discussion about PowerShell, and what we love most about it.

Contributing to PowerShell Made Easy with Sean Wheeler

We caught up with Sean Wheeler at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit to discuss all things documentation. We discuss why open source is an open discussion and how documentation moving to open source makes for a lot of opportunities to help contribute to the PowerShell community. We discuss the value of the PowerShell blog, and how contributing to the blog can help you practice and improve your writing skills, get your blogs published, and provides an opportunity to plug your own site at the same time.

PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit (PowerShell After Dark)

Jordan and Andrew are attending the PowerShell & Global DevOps Summit in Bellevue, Washington. This summit brings together some of the most influential names in PowerShell and is a gathering place for the PowerShell community. In this episode, Jordan and Andrew give a behind-the-scenes look at the summit after hours. They chat with summit attendees Nick and Chris, who share their insights and experiences with the summit, PowerShell, and the PowerShell community. It’s PowerShell after dark.

Securing PowerShell with Fred Weinmann

I hope you are ready to learn because Fred hits the ground running with information and never lets up. We cover a lot of ground on security and PowerShell, covering topics like: Constrained Language Mode (CLM), script block logging, Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI) and why you should be using it, and more. We finish things up with one of Fred’s favorite topics: his amazing PowerShell modules like PSFramework, PSUtil, and PSAzureMigrationAdvisor.

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This episode highlights Matthew Dowst and his excellent PowerShell Weekly blogs on Dowst.dev. Then we talk about running PowerShell on remote machines and using Invoke-Command vs. Enter-PsSession. We spend a small amount of time on Just Enough Administration, allowing you to move some of your tasks to be handled by others. I finally make an error so bad that when I say, “Kelly can Edit that out,” he is not able to! Not seen in the podcast was Kelly yelling at me in my office.

DBATools with Jess Pomfret

Episode Summary:

Jess Pomfret joins us to discuss how PowerShell was the perfect tool to help her automate DBA tasks. She gives some great insight into joining the community for the first time and talks about how helpful Chrissy LeMaire was in submitting her first submission to the dbatools module. Last, we cover the importance of writing code to test your code with Pester.

Guest Bio and links:

Jess Pomfret is a Microsoft MVP who is passionate about databases and automation, and PowerShell is the tool that lets her combine those loves. She is heavily involved with the DBATools module for PowerShell, the go-to tool for database administrators using PowerShell. Jess is also the Co-Author of DBATools in a Month of Lunches, estimated to be published in June of 2022. All of that and still finds time to speak at PowerShell and DBA events.