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Jonathan Walz

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Episode 57 – Carter Shanklin and the VI Toolkit

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast Carter Shanklin from VMWare joins us to talk about the new version of the VI toolkit for PowerShell. News ** *When it comes to scripting, you"™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest"™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell"™s strength across the enterprise.

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Win a copy of Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM on the podcast!

You can be one of the first to receive a copy of my book when it comes out (not long, I swear!), for free! Be sure to listen to Episode 57 for details. And let me give you a tip. Last time I looked, we had around 1,800 subscribers who listen to the recorded show. We typically have between 15 and 40 people show up to the live show on our Ustream channel.

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Join our Facebook Group

If you were a member of our group on Facebook, you"™d see this today: I think we"™ll be doing some sort of promotion with the group in the next month or so, so stay tuned for that.

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Episode 56 – James Kovacs talks about PSake

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer James Kovacs about his PowerShell build tool, psake. News ** *This segment is brought to you by Idera: *Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center.

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Ustream FAIL.

So we got ready to record the show tonight and to start the live stream and"¦Ustream"™s servers were choking. We ended up doing an on-the-fly move to Stickam to complete the interview which thankfully, worked fine. But then the stickam stream froze on Jon"™s PC multiple times, and it froze on the end-user side as well for some. So"¦ Looks like we need a better live streaming service. We are open to suggestions.

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast

Tonight on the show we"™re interviewing James Kovacs. James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He assists clients in building smart clients, web applications, web services, and even full-fledged servers using the .NET Framework and Microsoft server technologies.

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Episode 55 – Jeff Hicks in for Hal and an interview with James Brundage

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode This episode features PowerShell MVP, author, and scripting guru Jeff Hicks as a guest co-host and an excellent, information pack interview with PowerShell Quality Expert James Brundage. News ** *When it comes to scripting, you"™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest"™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell"™s strength across the enterprise.

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Episode 54 – the case of the missing interview

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen:  In This Episode We've got a ton of news and resources for you as well as a new tip. News *Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro's top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Let's not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer.

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Tomorrow on PowerScripting Live "“ James Brundage

James Brundage has been on the PowerShell team since February 2007 as a software tester. During the time on the PowerShell Test Team, James has tested large portions of the C# engine APIs, the Add-Type cmdlet, and he has explored the interaction between WPF and PowerShell. Prior to working on the PowerShell team, he worked on the Task Scheduler team and the WMI team during Windows Vista. Prior to working at Microsoft, James built a scriptable UI builder for video applications called the Motion Video System, which was used to produce a couple of video mixing applications (Trigger and Mix) as well as a digital advertising platform (BrandAlone).

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We are ON for tonight"™s PowerScripting Live!

Come check out the show at 9pm EST tonight and chat with fellow listeners. You can even interact with our guests. Tonight we"™re having a couple of nice fellows from Compellent to talk to us about their new PowerShell snapin.

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