{"id":17366,"date":"2014-10-29T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17366"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:51:13","slug":"tee14powershell-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17366","title":{"rendered":"TEE14&ndash;PowerShell Unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jeffrey Snover, uber genius, Distinguished Engineer, and father of PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Tale of 3 Parents<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UNIX: Small unit composition with pipes: A | B | C. Lacks consistency and predictability.<\/li>\n<li>VMS\/DCL: The consistent predictable nature impacted Jeffrey. Verb &amp; noun model.<\/li>\n<li>AS400\/CL: Business oriented \u2013 enable people to do \u201creal business\u201d. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Keys to Learning PowerShell<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn how to learn: requires a sense of exploration. I 100% agree. That\u2019s what I do: explore the cmdlets and options and properties of objects.<\/li>\n<li>Get-Help and Update-Help. The documentation is in the product. The help is updated regularly.<\/li>\n<li>Get-Command and Show-Command<\/li>\n<li>Get-Member and Show-Object \u2013&gt; the latter is coming.<\/li>\n<li>Get-PSDrive HOw hierarchical systems like&#160; drives are explored.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Demo<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Into ISE to do some demo stuff. <\/p>\n<p>He uses a OneGet and PowerShellGet modules to pull down modules from trusted libraries on the Internet (v5 from vNext).<\/p>\n<p>Runs Show-Object to open a tree explorer of a couple of cmdlets.<\/p>\n<p>Dir variable \u2026. explore the virtual variable drive to see the already defined variables available to you.<\/p>\n<p>$c = get-command get-help<\/p>\n<p>get-object $c<\/p>\n<p>$c.parameters<\/p>\n<p>$c.parameters.path<\/p>\n<p>get-command \u2013noun disk<\/p>\n<p>Get-something | out-gridview<\/p>\n<p>Get-Help something \u2013ShowWindow<\/p>\n<p>$ConfirmPreference = \u201cLow\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jeffrey Snover, uber genius, Distinguished Engineer, and father of PowerShell. Tale of 3 Parents UNIX: Small unit composition with pipes: A | B | C. Lacks consistency and predictability. VMS\/DCL: The consistent predictable nature impacted Jeffrey. Verb &amp; noun model. AS400\/CL: Business oriented \u2013 enable people to do \u201creal business\u201d. Keys to Learning PowerShell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TEE14&ndash;PowerShell Unplugged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[176,87,189],"class_list":["post-17366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eventnotes","tag-eventnotes","tag-powershell","tag-scripting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17380,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions\/17380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}