A Crash Course in PowerShell Scripting

Recently, I was assigned a project to be implemented in PowerShell, the latest shell and scripting language from Microsoft. Having no experience at all with PowerShell, I dove into the voluminous documentation to learn what I needed to about the task at hand. Here is a hopefully concise summary of the PowerShell basics, the minimum one needs to know in order to effectively write PowerShell script.

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hilite.me

hilite.me is an online tool for formatting source code from any language into HTML. All of the color and formatting information is inline, obviating the need for any accompanying CSS or JavaScript. The resulting HTML can be pasted into wherever HTML is welcome — such as emails, blog posts and websites. The one downside to the hilite.me service is that the available styles are listed only by name and not visually. As a result, one needs to cycle through them one at a time in order to recall what a particular style looks like. To remedy this…

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Honda Proposal

Back in 2012, we were approached by West Broad Honda. Part of the Page Auto Group, they are the premiere Honda dealership in the greater Richmond area. They wanted to build an iPad application that would guide their customers through the buying process. The application would be for internal use only; only customers present at West Broad Honda would be able to use the application. Here is the proposal that we presented.

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