I use powershell with graphviz to generate color coded service dependency diagrams for windows services. Besides creating useful and beautiful diagrams for your environment, this will also provide some interesting functions for gathering remote service information with alternate credentials.
Continue readingComment based help is used in powershell-land to provide fast and easy help for cmdlets at the console. This little powershell based GUI helps fellow coders automatically construct comment based help blocks for their functions.
Continue readingA little while ago I released a script which uses custom linq assemblies to quickly modify an html table based on column header and an arbitrary scriptblock to test the values within that entire column (by default it is a simple -eq comparison). If the scriptblock evaluates to be true then you can either change just the cell style or the entire row style.
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