Introduction

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Table of Contents

• • Editor’s Pick
  • Trending Github Repositories
  • Top Tweets
  • Top Reddit Posts
  • New on Youtube
  • Bestseller Books on Leanpub

Editors Pick

Here are some of the articles specially picked by me for your reading…

• [Article] Announcing PowerShell v7.1

  by @joeyaiello

  We’re proud to announce the release of PowerShell 7.1, the latest major update to PowerShell 7. This release includes a number of improvements and fixes that build on top of the PowerShell 7.0 release in March and the recent GA release of .NET 5. Since then, the PowerShell Team (and many of you, our community contributors, thank you!) have been hard at work addressing some of the community’s top bug reports and feature requests.

  What’s new in PowerShell 7.1?

  For PowerShell 7.1, we decided to build on the foundation established in PowerShell 7.0 with a strong focus on community issues, especially where we could make additive changes and quality-of-life improvements without introducing instability or breaking changes. As a platform with over 115 million sessions per month, we’re absolutely committed to ensuring that PowerShell remains a stable and performant platform, even after significant version upgrades like 7.1.

  For more details about what’s been added and fixed, make sure to check out the PowerShell 7.1 release notes.  [Read more]

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• [Article] Announcing PSReadLine 2.1+ with Predictive IntelliSense

  by @theJasonHelmick

  Tab completion has accelerated the success of new and experienced PowerShell users for over a decade. New users get the benefit of discovery, seeing available cmdlets and parameters as options while interactively typing. Experienced users receive the benefit of acceleration, typing less while using the Tab key to quickly complete a command.

  As the scale and complexity of cloud deployments and IT environments grow, cmdlet surface area is continually being updated with new cmdlets and additional parameter sets. For example, If you’re beginning your journey with Azure, the Azure PowerShell module can be daunting. In this increasingly complex world, Predictive IntelliSense is here to help.

  Predictive IntelliSense is an addition to the concept of tab completion that assists the user in successfully completing commands. The prediction suggestion appears as colored text following the user’s cursor. This enables new and experienced users of PowerShell to discover, edit, and execute full commands based on matching predictions from the user’s history and additional domain-specific plugins. [Read more]

  

  

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• [Video] A tour of PowerShell Universal

  by @adamdriscoll

  The ultimate platform for building web-based IT tools. PowerShell Universal allows you to run jobs, schedule scripts, build web pages and APIs, and control access; all under a single pane of beautiful glass. [Watch here]

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• [Book] PowerShell Guide to Python

  This PowerShell Scripting guide to Python is designed to make readers familiar with syntax, semantics, and core concepts of Python language, in an approach that readers can totally relate with the concepts of PowerShell already in their arsenal, to learn Python fast and effectively, such that it sticks with readers for a longer time.

  “Use what you know to learn what you don’t. ” also known as Associative learning.

  Book follows a comparative method to jump start readers journey in Python, but who is the target audience? and who should read this book –

  • Any System Administrator who wants to step into Development or Programming roles, and even if you don’t want to be a developer, knowledge of another scripting language will make your skill set more robust.
  • Python Developers who want to learn PowerShell scripting and understand its ease of user and importance to manage any platform.
  • This book works both ways: As a reader, you can use the book to learn Python if you know PowerShell or learn PowerShell if you know Python. PowerShell and Python code samples and screenshots next to each other make it very easy for readers to relate the common concepts and practices and learn the scripting language in no time.

  [Book homepage]

Trending Github Repositories

Github repositories that are trending are a good way to find and contribute to some cool PowerShell projects! Following is the list of top 10 trending PowerShell Github repositories.

Trending PowerShell Developers on Github

Following is the list developer building some cool projects and tools in PowerShell on Github, and popular repositories in their profiles.

Top Tweets

If you are into tech then you can’t miss these PowerShell related popular tweets in last week, here is the list of top 10 most popular PowerShell tweets…

Top Reddit posts

PowerShell Reddit r/PowerShell is a vibrant community and you should be on board if you want to get onto the nerve of PowerShell Community, here is a list of top Reddit posts last week..

New on Youtube

Here are all new PowerShell videos uploaded on youtube.com last week!

Bestseller Books on Leanpub.com

Here are the top 10 book titles which were trending as bestsellers under the PowerShell category!

Author of “PowerShell Guide to Python“, “Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)” and currently writing the most awaited book: “PowerShell to C# and Back” !