Comments on: PowerShell Picasso

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:58:23 +0000

Look back through the comments. I think there’s a link to the script you’re talking about.

By: JV

JV — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:03:08 +0000

Love The Tijuana Brass. I saw Herbon PBS a couple of weeks ago.

I used ot work with a Sax/Piano player that I hired as aprogrammer. He was excellent. Musicians make better…scripters?!?

By: JV

JV — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:01:14 +0000

On the serious side.

Since reading this blog entry I have started ot go back to using full CmdLet names in examples I post because I agree with you. Thse learning PowerShell should not have to work to understand all of the time.

There is a blogger who recently called for the use of more aliases as if 200+ is not enough. The cahnce of an alias becoming hijacked is very possible so published code should avoid alias usage for safety.

I once saw a post of a bit of code that would expand all aliases before publication. Can’t find it now.

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:59:40 +0000

I am an old trumpet player, that is true.

By: JV

JV — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:57:04 +0000

Ok Pablo,

You call your blog “The Lonely Administrator”. Is this because you are related to Herb Alpert?

By: Glenn Ryan

Glenn Ryan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:57:55 +0000

Great story. There’s one that mirrors it that I had to share. A woman calls a plumber and tells him her basement is flooding and she needs his services ASAP. He comes over, looks at a couple of pipes for a minute and surveys the scene, goes to his tool box, takes out some pipe-fitting pliers, tightens one pipe, then another and voila, the water stops gushing. The woman is utterly grateful and gushes joy. Then he gives her the bill. It’s for $1,000. She genuflects telling him it’s too way expensive and wants him to itemize it. He does. It says, “Tightening the pipes, $1.00. Knowing what to do and where to tighten, $999.”

Glenn Ryan

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:57:03 +0000

True, aliases are great but can hinder the code readability. I wrote an Expand-Alias function that will resolve and replace aliases in your scripts, that way you don’t have to worry about leftover aliases sneaking by in you examples or scripts.
I use .Net static methods when there is no alternative in pure PowerShell, or the alternative is too lengthy or complex.
If you’d like to give Expand-Alias a try read my entry at http://robertrobelo.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1D7FE2F4A61D31E1!243.entry I hope it helps you or your readers.

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:24:25 +0000

That’s exactly the type of .NET PowerShell code I was referring to. There’s nothing wrong, as long as the author explains this is high-level, not ordinary PowerShell.

By: Martin Zugec

Martin Zugec — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:43:32 +0000

While I fully agree with first part (I use aliases only for backwards compatibility and of course DIR\CD ), I don’t fully agree with second part (.NET).

If you meant it as “using assemblies, psbase etc” then I agree, however using .NET object properties\method can even improve reading of the code

http://www.out-web.net/?p=772

By: tojo2000

tojo2000 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:45:32 +0000

Hear, hear! It’s something I’ve been guilty enough of myself in the past. It reminds me of when I was first learning Perl, and had to sift through all of the “magic” variables and functions. The convenience the shortcuts provide doesn’t come close to making up for the hassle they provide everyone else (and sometimes even yourself, if it’s been long enough since you looked at a piece of code).