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Retrieve your blog posts from WordPress using REST API
If you own a wordpress blog and are curious as to how many posts you blogged with a particular tag, the Invoke-RestMethod is here to help you.
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,100 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway…
Using verbal expressions to make regex easy in PowerShell
What it means is that, we write ‘Four times X plus 3 equals seven’, and get ‘4x+3=7′. That example, could be a little misleading so let try it again, a valid url would consist of http at the begining of the line, maybe s if you are accessing a secure site, then it will have ://, maybe www. if you are so inclined to type and anything but a space. The aim of verbal expressions is to let you type the above and get a regular expression that matches a URL which is this: this:’^(?:http)(?:s)?(?:://)(?:www.)?(?:[^\ ])$’
Tagged with: Powershell, Regex, Regular Expressions, RegularExpressions, Verbal Expressions, VerbalExpressions
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
Google search results using REST (custom search api) in PowerShell
Chanced upon Google’s custom search API while trying to see if there was a better way to retrieve the search results programatically.
Tagged with: Exploration, Fun, Google Custom Search API, Inovke-RESTMethod, Powershell, REST
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
Filtering data from SQL*Server Errorlogs
Tagged with: Context, Error Log, ErrorLog, ErrorLogPath, Powershell, Select-String, SMO, SQL Server
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell, SQL Server
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell, SQL Server
Shuffle the deck using PowerShell
Generate a random permutation of a given set of elements. Power-shell implementation of the ‘Fisher-Yates Shuffle’.
Tagged with: Fisher-Yates Shuffle, gaming, Powershell, Random Number Generators, Random Numbers, technology
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
An attempt at Conway’s Game of Life using PowerShell
While watching ‘Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design’ couple of weeks ago on Discovery channel. Stephen Hawking was talking about how conscience evolves and how simple cells could evolve into complex beings. As an example, I saw the game of life come up and show how simple starting states can evolve into complex self-sustaining groups. This got me thinking, and while investigating how we code this game of life; I found that the rules are pretty simple. So, I started looking at doing this in PowerShell.
Working with INI style files in PowerShell
Anyways, about year ago I was working on moving some parts of our deployment scripts to PowerShell. One of the things that was on the to-do list was parsing and building hashes out of .ini style files. It was not uncommon to find these files used for persisting configuration information and also for automation so, I assumed we would have a built-in cmdlet to cover this kind of a file. We do not have it.
It is a little disappointing but, since the structure of the file is almost static; we can code very easily around it.
Tagged with: automation, configuration files, ini, Powershell, server installation
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner,…
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