Six months ago, my family and I were packing up the truck for the long drive from Texas to Ottawa, Canada. The day that we left, I received a call from a potential client frantically asking for some help. The account rep told me that they needed some seriously quick help for a potential customer […]
This post is a continuation of Building your first PowerShell Class. If you haven’t read the earlier post, then I would definitely suggest starting there. Today, we are going to continue developing our little class into something with a bit more pizzazz. We will start from our previous module and continue adding new methods (Get the […]
Yesterday, we talked about the components of a class. Today, I want to go through building a new PowerShell v5 Class and showcase some of the interesting nuances. Last night, I played with my toddler son in his playroom. To say that he has too many toys is probably an understatement. Since the oldest is […]
In the introduction to this series, I talked about the work that I am doing to create a PowerShell v5 class based Desired State Configuration (DSC) resource. As I started this project, I quickly turned to the ol’ google-foo to see what others were saying about best practices and tips. The first thing that I […]
A few weeks ago, I started working on a project to create new PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) that will integrate with the NetApp DataONTAP PowerShell toolkit. It has been a very exciting past month for me. I enjoy writing Powershell code and modules but for this project I started using two new components – PowerShell […]
I have worked with NetApp’s Data ONTAP for many years and much of my career revolves around my knowledge of the platform. Recently, I joined the NetApp A-Team and, of course, I jumped at that opportunity. For the past 6yrs, I have worked on many and exciting automation opportunities. A very important feature of Data […]
Over the years, I have developed a series of functions that help me handle the logging and console output of my PowerShell code. It started after getting frustrated with repeating my code multiple times in different locations or worse, when I had to make a change to the formatting. As time went on, I realized […]
So for the past year, I have been pretty addicted to a game on my iPad (Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes by EA) and my normal routine is to flip open the laptop at the end of the day and play for a bit. You know what I mean by ‘play’ is more do the […]
Over the years, I have done many projects with large Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) or Oracle database environments. In fact, I have done a lot around automating those platforms for Test&Dev environments. It always seems to come down to writing deployment strategies and automation scripts, typically using one of my many SQL Cookbooks in Chef. Recently, […]
In the fable of Hansel and Gretel, we hear the story of two children lost in the woods and the unfortunate circumstances that befouled them. An important part of the story is that they were initially safe as they followed the trail of stones that they left. Later in the story, the two children used bread and […]
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