Recently, a friend of mine found out he was in need of a new job, and asked me if I had any leads. I didn't, at least not for his area and desired position. I did have one suggestion, which was to get on Twitter. His response, "Thanks, I hadn't … [Continue reading] about Improving Your Career With Social Media (or, How To Learn To Stop Worrying And Love The Twitter)
Some tips for writing your first PowerShell cmdlets & modules
A while back, I wrote a bit of a rant about the difficulties in finding helpful resources on writing PowerShell 2.0 cmdlets in C#. In case you hadn't read it, my point was that there's literally tons of great resources on authoring PowerShell … [Continue reading] about Some tips for writing your first PowerShell cmdlets & modules
PowerShell module for VIO-4001/4004
As I've mentioned before, I work as a sales engineer for Virtensys, a company that provides a very cool PCIe-based I/O virtualization appliance. Lately I've been working on an unofficial project to develop PowerShell cmdlets that will allow the … [Continue reading] about PowerShell module for VIO-4001/4004
Configuring EST & VST VLAN tagging with Dell PowerConnect: VMware vSphere
As I've mentioned before, I've got a Dell PowerConnect 6224 in my vSphere lab. When I first started setting up my vSphere environment, I had some difficulties with configuring the Dell switch to support external switch tagging (EST) and virtual … [Continue reading] about Configuring EST & VST VLAN tagging with Dell PowerConnect: VMware vSphere
C#, WSDL, PowerShell cmdlets — Oh my!
Lately I've been working on trying to author PowerShell cmdlets with Visual Studio 2010 to talk to a web service. At first glance, I thought it would be easy. I had the WSDL and XSD files, and the webservice side of things is already working. There's … [Continue reading] about C#, WSDL, PowerShell cmdlets — Oh my!