Welcome to the 290th post on tommymaynard.com. It’s countdown to 300!
Last Friday morning, The PowerShell Conference Book was made available for purchase. While it’s not yet complete, the Leanpub method of publishing allows that it can be sold and distributed even before it’s at 100%. This first release includes 9 of 33 chapters, or roughly 25%. As a part of its introduction, the below Tweet went out from Mike F Robbins. Do yourself a favor and follow the link if you haven’t and read his post. It’s quite descriptive of the overall project, and a great place to start in regard to learning more about this multi authored book project.
Announcing the #PowerShell Conference Book https://t.co/xY4Et7QW4Z #DevOps #PSHSummit #MVPBuzz
— Mike F. Robbins (@mikefrobbins) July 6, 2018
During the course of the last few months, I’ve been having one of those unforgettable PowerShell moments, albeit it’s a longer one than most. You know those moments: your first successful script, your most popular blog article, tweaking a script or function in a way you never though possible, being followed on Twitter by Don Jones, etc.
It all started when Mike contacted me and asked if I would be interested in writing a chapter in the newest PowerShell book. Of course I would! The whole idea wasn’t to spread out some spending money to a collection of worldwide PowerShell experts and authors. No. Instead, it had everything to do with Mike and his determination to help support The DevOps Collective, Inc. OnRamp Scholarship. The authors receive nothing tangible; they only receive an opportunity to help support this cause, as well.
You can help too. Buy the book, and help support this effort. You’ll get to learn from some of the best PowerShell minds this community has to offer (and me, somehow). I do want to thank Mike of course, but also Jeffery Hicks and Michael T Lombardi. The three of these guys went above and beyond what was required of them. Thanks as well to all the other authors that made this endeavor possible. Remember, get your copy, if you haven’t already.
In closing, I also want to thank my wife Jenn and kiddos, Carson and Arianna, for putting up with me. Sorry about being so PowerShell obsessed.
Yeah, okay not really. 😉