I am TechNet Gallery Years Old, Part III

Well, it is time for Part III of this series of posts. If you did not read the first one, or the second one, I would recommend starting with those. And now, it is time to cover the final four entries.

8. I love how the 1 to 100 game turned out. It is on the PowerShell Gallery and more information can be found on the post I wrote about it here, including what you need to know to get it on your computer. Here is an old screen capture of some gameplay. Just because it is the 1 to 100 game, does not mean you cannot choose your own numbers. This is the 1 to 3 game.

9. “Convert Alphanumeric String to the NATO Phonetic Alphabet Equivalent”

This script does not come with its own post, however, it was mentioned in this post about my Convert-TextToSpeech function. Essentially, it did exactly what this quote says from the post: “It takes a string made up of numbers and letters and writes it out in the Nato phonetic alphabet.” Since it does not have its own post to read, head straight to the GitHub Gist if you are interested. I have opted to take it for a spin this evening and included an image, too. You cannot tell, but including the Speak parameter will ensure the computer says the results out loud.

10. “Check Email Address Domain Against the Top-Level Domain (TLD) List from IANA”

Uh, this one was already covered in Part II. Weird it is on the list twice. That said, there were two different TechNet Gallery URLs. I attempted to use archive.org and the second of the two URLs was gone, gone. That means that what I wrote was 100% accurate: it must have been deleted. Either way, visit Part II if you want to learn more about this script, and you might.

11. “Map Drive to Drive Letter Using the Win32_DiskDrive Interface Type Property”

We have made it; it is the last one. This script does not have its own post here, but you can get the code from its Gist. The most I remember, at the moment, is that it was written for someone that may have needed help finding the drive letter of a USB drive — it has been a while. I may be totally wrong, but the person it was written for was appreciative. And really, it was kind of a monumental moment in my PowerShell community career. It was the first time I wrote something for someone else out there on the Internet. I am thinking that it may have been the beginning of my desire to learn and write about PowerShell here at tommymaynard.com.

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