I have something better to type,” she said. Open the Windows PowerShell prompt and type ‘dollar a equals this is a string,’” I said. “OK, I will slide over and let you drive. “Show me, Script Monkey,” she actually said. “Instruct me, oh my magnificent fount of scripting knowledge,” I imagined her saying. “Well then…I ‘bellowed.’ You need to learn some more regular expressions if you expect to compete in this year’s Windows PowerShell Scripting Games,” I said.
I said bellow,” she stated matter-of-factly. “I am not certain ‘bellow’ is the correct word-perhaps ‘discretely inquire’ would be better,” I suggested. At times, it seems that she floats silently through the house. Without warning, she was standing in the doorway of my home office. “Hmm…where did she go?” I said to myself. I waited for a seemingly long time, with my ears straining for the slightest sound. “Yoo hoo, Scripting Wife,” I said with a rather loud voice.
Speaking of learning Windows PowerShell and getting ready for the 2011 Scripting Games, I wonder what the Scripting Wife is up to. Therefore, we now have a week of Live Meetings for a last minute work out to get you into top shape for the games. They were great to work with, and they were flexible with my scheduling. When the TechEd people asked me about doing a Road to TechEd Live Meeting, I said I would like to do an entire week, but only if I could schedule it prior to the 2011 Scripting Games. I will be filtering for the #ScriptingWeek hash tag. We are even going to be streaming it on the Learn PowerShell page of the Script Center, and you will be able to ask questions via Twitter. Sign up for all five because they will be interactive with lots of demos and lots of questions. You can find all five of my live meetings on the TechEd 2011 online. It is going to be WAY cool, and the Scripting Wife will be there also. The sessions will be live at 8:00 (Pacific Standard Time -8 GMT).
The series will run Monday through Friday (five sessions), and they are called PowerShell: Learn It Now Before It’s an Emergency.
It will be a way cool Scripting Week, and sign up is already going on. I just finished a meeting with the Microsoft TechEd people about doing a series of five Live Meetings next week (beginning on March 28) about Windows PowerShell for the Road to TechEd. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here.
Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell and regular expressions to replace text in strings.