Check out all the fun and excitement at this year's Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Take a look at some of the highlights and make plans to attend the next Maker Faire.
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In This Episode

• Today weâll be speaking to Steven Behrns from iTripoli, the developers who brought you Admin Script Editor. Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you. In addition, weâve got a product giveaway, the first of many! But you have to listen to find out how to enter.

News

The News today is sponsored by SDM Software.

Before we go into the spiel, Iâd like to mention that weâve gotten some great feedback from Quest already, so thanks to everyone who has done a clickthrough and filled out the form. You do keep doing that, and we keep the advertisers happy, and that allows US to do more for you. You will start to see the results of that in this very show!

âSDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems. Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects.
To get more information about these products and download trial copies,
visit sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php.â

• We want to highlight a ton of IMPORTANT posts which Jeffrey Snover has made over the past few weeks:
  • How Could You Top CTP1?
    • This post has the background for why and how some upcoming changes will be made.
  • Changes in upcoming CTP
    • This post has an extract from the release notes for CTP2. Very important to read if you want to keep up with the new version. Thereâs also some good discussion in the comments attached to the article.
  • Get-Random
    • I love this quote: I saw THIS posting over on Mark Minasiâs forums that caught my eye. It gives you a random help file under the motto of: âA powershell help file a day, keeps Don Jones awayâ
    • The article goes on to talk about a new cmdlet by the name Get-Random which will get you a random number, orâgrab a random item from a collection.
• iTripoli just released version 3.5 of their Admin Script Editor. (Should be out by the time you read this.) It now includes a debugger and has a ton of PowerShell templates.
• VMware just announced that Beta 2 of VMware Server 2 (the free version of their virtualization software) is manageable by their PowerShell Toolkit! This is awesome news for smaller shops which have not shelled out for their higher-end Virtual Infrastructure products.

Interview

[sponsor] Our interview today is brought to you by Quest Software.
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We interview Steven Behrns from iTripoli in todayâs show. Be sure to listen! Here are some of the questions we asked him.

1. Who is Steven? What do you do at iTripoli, and what is your background?
   1. co-founder
   2. company started in 2001 w/Bob Kelly. Kixscript editor
2. What are your favorite features?
   1. Comprehensive code wizards to generate ps script code for ADSI, WMI, XML, database connections, etc.
   2. Script packager, turns your scripts into an executable.
   3. Script Form Designer
3. When did iTripoli get into PowerShell? Was it a hard sell internally or was this an obvious way forward for ASE?
   1. Thought about this in 2006 during a code overhaul discussion.
   2. First supported powershell in spring of 2007 with the release of 3.0.
4. What are the primary design goals for ASE? How has it done in the marketplace and changed over time?
   1. Everything related to making scripting tasks easier.
   2. They want ASE to appear invisible and intuitive to the scripters.
5. How long was the dev cycle (for PowerShell support)? What were your greatest challenges?
6. Where do you see PowerShell in two years? How will ASE evolve to match it?
7. So I heard you have something to show us?
   1. They wrote a podcast / MP3 player entirely in PowerShell as an example of how much you can do.
   2. The graphics in the GUI are embedded WITHIN the script file using base-64 encoding.

Thanks a bunch to Steven, we had fun with the interview.

Resources

• We have two links for you today from John Robbins, author and master debugger. Itâs a heartwarming before and after powershell love story. He also links to a Compile-Help script which we somehow missed when it was new. This script grabs the help files from all installed cmdlets as well as the about topics, and packages them into a HTML help file for easy reading.
• Carter at VMware (yes, Hal has a thing about them, sorry) also blogged about a way to have your VMware alert events fire off instant messages using Jabber

One-Liner

• One liner sent to us by John Cook and a write up on his blog
  • $env:path -replace â;â, â`nâ

Give Away

• A beautiful NFR copy of Windows Vista Ultimate could be yours. Listen to the show for how to enter.

This is news cast 139.

In the intro a quick recap of our Free Comic Day and review of the movie, Iron Man.

Security alerts this week are EULAs for malware and the security risks of social network applications.

In this week’s news, Linux file system developer Hans Reiser is convicted of murder, implementing the Java and Ruby VMs in JavaScript, tracking down hidden kill switches in ICs, and the missing link in electronic circuitry.

Following up this week, a favorable ruling in the Howell file sharing case with Patry's commentary and Radiohead is not going to repeat their download experiment.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

An ornithopter is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings! Here is a simple monoplane design powered by a rubber band. It's motion is similar to a bird in flight.
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Check out the Build and Ornithopter article MAKE 08 \"Build and Ornithopter\" & You can see that in our digital edition.

Linux Basement Season 2 Live Finale, with a special Pete's Picks of the Week. Don't forget the song at the end!

This is a feature cast.

In case you missed it, a reminder to check your feed for the special edition to commemorate the launch of Cory Doctorow's latest novel, Little Brother. Also, here's my interview for the Future and You which was recorded this past weekend at RavenCon.

The hacker word of the week this week is dd.

Listener feedback is a voice mail from C.A. Sizemore commenting on the Social Spaces 2 feature.

The feature is a monologue considering the effects of coding on thought.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

I am pleased to be able to help promote the launch of Cory Doctorow's latest book, Little Brother. I was privileged to be able to read an early draft of this book and cannot recommend it highly enough to my listeners. So much so that I am taking Cory up on his offer to share an excerpt from my own purchased copy of the audiobook with his permission.

I encourage you to pick up your own copy, in your favorite format, right away. You can find details on the launch at Cory's site and you can buy the book in audio or dead tree formats. The link to the free electronic text is not up yet, I will post an update as soon as it is.