If you seriously still haven’t heard or used PowerShell yet, come to my Little Rock DNUG presentation on the topic on Monday, July 13. Or, if you’re busy Monday night because you’re going to hear Keith Elder speak on Velocity to the Fort Smith DNUG, then come Tuesday night to hear me give my PowerShell presentation to the Conway DNUG instead!

I’ve never given a talk two days in a row, so this will be a new experience for me. If you’re interested in the content, I’m trying to keep my presentation notes and related files up on one of my github projects. I’m finding that the whole distributed source control works well for me for accessing and working on my presentation from all different areas and computers.

If you’re at the meeting, stop by and say hi!

If you’ll be in the northwest Arkansas area tomorrow (April 25), be sure to come out for the NWA Code Camp. There will be presentations on everything ranging from LINQ and Silverlight to iPhone development. I’ll be presenting my PowerShell talk one more time as well. If I can count at all, it looks like there will be 15 different speakers total.

I’m looking forward to it!

Tonight, the FSDNUG group participated in their first launch event ever – for SQL Server 2008! Woo!

The gist of it was that 4 of us took about 15 to 20 minutes to talk about different portions of SQL Server. It turned out to be more intro than deep dives, but I think the group got more out of the presentation this way.

My portion of the presentation was on SQL CLR.

I think my talk went alright, but my demo definitely didn’t work. I blamed the Windows 7 beta but it probably had more to do with my lack of knowledge. *shrug* If you’re interested in trying the example out for yourself, Bashar Kokash has a good post on it. The example worked fine on my machine without any problems the first time, but during the talk, the Visual Studio deployment apparently didn’t work. Oh well.

The other code examples that I had all are linked off of the MSDN overview of SQL CLR link from above, so knock yourself out. Keith Elder’s post on creating custom SQL CLR user-defined types is also a good start.

The final two links I used were this one from SQL Skills and this one… that provided most of my information Thanks Google!

I enjoyed the chance to present again! If you have any feedback, feel free to let me know.

I promised the slides, notes and links from my Memphis .NET User Group talk, so here they are… and wow, they haven’t really changed much from when I gave the PowerShell talk to the FSDNUG group. So, I’ll just link to the zip of the presentation from that talk.

The primary slide that I added to my presentation was entirely related to a StackOverflow question entitled, “how do you use PowerShell.”

I felt that the talk went fairly well, but I did have to rush towards the end because I added an overview of some real scripts that I use, but I didn’t remove enough of my prior content… thus, the rush.   No big deal, though. I did get the feeling that there were a few people who didn’t really feel that PowerShell applied to them, but hey, that’s fine. At least there weren’t any tomatoes!

I’ll be presenting one more time (as far as I know) this year at Harding University. I’m looking forward to it, too. I’ll be presenting for the Computing Seminar on October 9. The last time I spoke before Seminar was in 2003 when I talked about “Smart Client Software.” That was when it was for college credit! I’m planning on changing the talk up a little to direct it more towards CS students instead of professional developers. I imagine it will be a slightly different audience than the typical .NET User Group, too. We’ll see.

Back on the MNUG talk, thanks to Randy for driving and thanks to Colin for inviting me to speak. It was fun!

Colin is risking it I say. How is he risking it you might ask? By asking me to speak to the Memphis .NET User Group!

I think he’s crazy, but whatever.

Randy Walker and I will be traveling to Memphis, TN tomorrow night where I’ll be presenting on PowerShell. Randy is coming out to meet with the founding members of the Northeast Arkansas .NET User Group, which is very cool. Regarding my presentation, it will likely be a similar presentation to what I gave to the FSDNUG group, but I’m hoping to have more script examples. I think I gave the Fort Smith group a good picture of PowerShell, but I don’t think I showed them nearly as many practical uses of PowerShell as I would have liked. I’ve got a folder of scripts now, some that I’ve written for myself and a few that we’re using at work, that I’ll be showing and walking through during the presentation.

If you’re in the area, come on out!

Tonight, I presented on PowerShell to the Fort Smith .NET User Group. It was my first presentation/speech since college! Fortunately, it seems to have gone over well and I think I helped drive some interest in PowerShell. Here are my slides and other relevant links for any of those who attended.

PowerShell Homepage and Download

PowerShell Blog

PowerShell Community Extensions

PowerTab

Start-Demo script that I used to automate some of the demos

Many thanks to Chris Green for allowing me to use some of the content from the presentation that he shared at Tech Ed 2007 Australia. Thanks also to Ben Pearce for his great PowerShell cheat sheet. Final thanks to Michael Paladino for helping me with a run-through of my presentation ahead of time.

I've zipped up my PowerPoint presentation along with my demo.txt (to go along with the Start-Demo script), the source for my PipelineDemo program, and my custom ps1xml file. You can get the zip with the presentation contents here. The PowerPoint presentation has a lot of relevant links that I didn't explicitly post here.

I hope everyone enjoyed the talk! I enjoyed giving it!

Let me know if you have any comments on ways that I could improve.

I didn’t expect to add a Speaking category to my blog just yet, but… well, here it is, my premiere Speaking post.

I’ll be presenting on PowerShell to the Fort Smith .NET User Group next Monday. The talk will be an introduction level talk, but I plan on covering quite a bit if time allows. My primary focus (goal) will be on how PowerShell can make us as developers be more productive, whether that is from script automation or just learning to more efficient by using our keyboards more.

If you’re in the area, drop by! You can even heckle me if you want!

I’m planning on posting the slides and examples after the presentation.