The Surly Admin

Father, husband, IT Pro, cancer survivor

Simple Multiplication Table

My daughter has really been working on her multiplication tables this year and normally she comes home with a study sheet for each number, all the way up to 12.  This week we’re working on 8’s, so 8×0, 8×1, all the way up to 8×12.  Unfortunately she didn’t get a worksheet so she decided to make her own.  If I can take a moment of fatherly pride, she does this kind of thing all the time without us making her.  What a gal!  Well, one of the ways I motivate her is to race her.  So it was on.  Can I write a PowerShell script and get the multiplication table out before she could write it out?!

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April 4, 2014 Posted by | Powershell - Getting Started | , , , , | 1 Comment

ForEach Performance

It’s been a tough couple of weeks, let me tell you!  I had a cold, that eventually dropped into my lungs and became pneumonia.  I don’t know about you, but I don’t have much interest in doing anything when I’m sick, not even Powershell!  Also, at work, we’re ramping up to migrate from our current ERP system to one from SAP and I expect that will be eating up a ton of time too.  Not to mention the need to finish my Exchange 2010 migration, create a Sharepoint 2010 test environment from our production one and half a dozen other projects going on at the same time.  I hope to keep fitting my scripts in amongst all this, as I have to admit this is where my IT passion is right now.

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December 3, 2012 Posted by | Powershell - Performance, Random Thoughts | , , | 2 Comments