If you write enough scripts, eventually you will need to update one to fix a bug or introduce a new feature. How do you keep track of which version of the script is out there? You add a version number to your product. If you look around the web, there are plenty of ideas on how versioning should work. It's best to consider your environment (version control software) first and … [Read more...]
Volunteer to teach computer science in high schools with TEALS
Most US high schools do not have a computer science course. This puts those students at a disadvantage in understanding their future options compared to their peers at other high schools. Learning these computational skills can help no matter what career path a student chooses due to the problem-solving nature of computer science and the ubiquity of technology. TEALS is … [Read more...]
Google Summer of Code 2017
Google Summer of Code has been around since 2005. In the program, Google partners with open source software projects and technology-based groups to fund students interested in working on real world software development for three months. Students gain good experience and advice from mentors. The organizations get specific projects or features developed while increasing the … [Read more...]
PowerShell script to query AD for number of accounts with expired passwords
With a recent change to our password policy, some users' passwords began expiring more frequently than before. This has had our phone support seeing an increase in calls. In order to monitor the situation, we wanted to see numbers for those groups regarding how many accounts had expired passwords and were another potential phone call. This script is written with a function … [Read more...]
Browse the web with PowerShell
PowerShell can be used to scrape websites for parsable content. This can allow your script to make smart decisions based on http, https, ftp, or file requests available. The cmdlet Invoke-WebRequest has been in PowerShell since version 3.0. It is able to take different parameters and return the webpage as an object. You can then use standard PowerShell parsing in order to … [Read more...]