My new book, Be the Master: Second Edition is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats, and The Grind Workbook is also available in print! For full details, visit BeTheMaster.com.
My new book, Be the Master: Second Edition is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats, and The Grind Workbook is also available in print! For full details, visit BeTheMaster.com.
Ryan asks:
How would you recommend one “makes time” to learn powershell? I own your 2 “lunch” books but I’ve never really made any progress. By the time I get home from work and deal with “life” I’m not really ‘excited’ to sit down and study. I’ve slowly started forcing myself to use PoSH but I’m doing “one-liners” but I know I could become much more versatile. I guess my question would be, how do I get motivated!
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This was a question via Twitter, and it’s a great one. Buckle up.
David asks:
How is it you became the “first follower” of PowerShell?
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Ifiok writes:
Don, I have read your comments on some political issues and I would say I understood a lot after reading your posts.
My question is on one of the most sensitive issues in US – the appointment of supreme court judges. I have always believed that these judges are expected to be neutral in all cases and should base their decisions only on the law and its technicalities.
How come we hear the parties scrambling to get a judge that’s on their side – I hear things like “a judge with conservative views …”. Why does it matter if a judge believes in a particular parties ideologies and not the other?
This certainly speaks to me of a very partial supreme court system whose decisions are extremely political. In that case where lies the checks and balances the judiciary (and other arms of government) were supposed to uphold.
I hope this is not too long
Thanks for what you do the PowerShell community and your general followers.
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Mike asks:
I’ve read in Be the Master how you focus on managing your time. But I get yanked around a lot at work – email, meetings, crises, and I suppose some Facebook and Twitter time. How do I figure out where it’s being wasted?
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Luis asks:
Long time fan here, first time writer :). Over the last 10 years I’ve learned a lot of Powershell and have increasingly used it more and more at my place of employment. It’s more or less now 80% of my job (which I love!). However, I know that simply working on automation and scripting alone is not necessarily a “DevOps Lifestyle”. I know it’s more about treating the infrastructure like “cows” instead of pets. I think we’re moving in that direction, but there’s still a terrifying amount of “state” in my infrastructure servers that I really can’t do a whole lot about.
I assume this is probably true for most IT professionals in the Enterprise vs those who are lucky enough to work for the unicorn companies. I assume there’s always going to be some “pets” here and there. I’m working hard to apply DevOps principles in my day to day work, but I can’t tell if I’m just getting better at scripting now or if I could fit into a “DevOps” organization.
When do I know that I’m functioning in a DevOps fashion? Or is that just a thing that happens when your job title includes the word “DevOps” in it?
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Jeremy writes:
In the spirit of ‘Be The Master‘ and the non-binary teacher-student relationship, what is something that you are currently a novice in, and how are you working to approach mastery at it?
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I’ve started working on a new book, The Culture of Learning. This is a pretty different kind of book for me, and it’s intended for a very specific audience: people within an organization who are responsible for creating or promoting a “culture of learning.”
Sunny writes:
If one needs to read more on PowerShell under the hood, for example how powershell interact with the .NET framework where can we start?
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“Let’s not say goodbye,” the phrase goes, “but rather say farewell.”
Kinda stupid, actually.
