A quick PowerCLI guide to list and count VM hardware versions in a VMware environment, with an updated command for modern vSphere.
A VMworld 2018 talk encouraging IT Ops and sysadmins to start coding with PowerShell/PowerCLI, explaining core concepts for beginners.
A guide on how using code snippets in your IDE or text editor can significantly boost a developer's productivity by automating repetitive typing tasks.
A guide on using Packer to build custom Fedora Scientific Vagrant boxes for VirtualBox, including troubleshooting SSH issues.
A preview of a VMworld session on why IT operations professionals should learn coding basics, using PowerShell/PowerCLI examples.
A developer argues for using the terminal over GUIs for efficiency, customization, and the compounding benefits of aliases and scripts.
A developer compares using RecUp for voice memos with iOS 12's new Siri shortcut for the native Voice Memos app, focusing on workflow efficiency.
A technical guide on using Ansible's azure_rm_resource module to programmatically accept Azure Marketplace terms for a VM image.
A guide to installing Azure CLI and Ansible on Ubuntu, highlighting version conflicts and providing a one-script installation method.
A guide to managing AWS Lambda functions using Terraform for infrastructure as code, covering automation and integration with broader AWS resources.
A guide to using Mac's Automator tool to batch convert PDF slides into images for video editing, saving significant time.
Explains how to standardize and add emojis to GitHub issue labels across multiple repositories using GitHub's API and the R 'gh' package.
Author announces 'Practical Python Projects' book, designed to teach intermediate Python through 15+ real-world, portfolio-ready projects.
A guide to configuring options for PowerShell Scheduled Jobs, covering defaults, hash tables, and updating settings.
A guide to running Ansible on Windows 10 using Docker for Windows, detailing the setup process and rationale for choosing containers.
A data science leader shares challenges of scaling a data science team at Lazada, focusing on balancing business input with ML automation.
Introduction to using Windows PowerShell Scheduled Jobs for task automation, covering creation and benefits over traditional scheduled tasks.
A guide to using Django's check framework and Python's ast module to automate custom code quality and style enforcement, like ensuring model fields have verbose names.
A data scientist shares tips on automating a monthly book giveaway using R, including package organization and image manipulation with the magick package.
A PowerShell script to automatically select and tweet a random blog post from an RSS feed archive.
