Splatting, Automation, and Chasing the Sun with Jess Pomfret

About this episode

Jess Pomfret discusses her charity cycling event and the benefits of PowerShell splatting.

Jess Pomfret returns for her third appearance on the PowerShell Podcast and brings the same energy that keeps people coming back. She and Andrew cover a lot of ground, starting with her upcoming "Chase the Sun" charity cycling event where she'll attempt to ride 205 miles coast-to-coast across the UK in a single day, starting at sunrise on the longest day of the year and racing the sun to the finish line. It's a big undertaking, and she's riding to raise money for Momentum in Fitness, a charity her wife works for that brings fitness opportunities to older adults, kids in non-traditional school settings, and children with cancer. On the technical side, Jess makes the case for PowerShell splatting as an underrated beginner concept that makes code dramatically more readable. She walks through the idea of pulling parameters out of a long command line, organizing them into a hash table, and passing that hash table to the command instead. It's one of those things experienced scripters take for granted, but seeing it for the first time is genuinely useful. The conversation also gets into Desired State Configuration (DSC), where Andrew and Jess dig into what it is, how it works, and why…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew

Guest: Jess Pomfret

Topics covered

• PowerShell
• splatting
• automation
• charity cycling
• Desired State Configuration
• sysadmin

Keywords

• PowerShell
• splatting
• automation
• charity
• Desired State Configuration
• sysadmin
• cycling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Momentum in Fitness

Places: UK

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