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  I finally completed my first Microsoft Certification.  Getting Microsoft Certified has always been one of my goals and I finally accomplished that goal.  

I, along with 4 others in class and 4 online took the MCSA: Office 365 certification course at TechSherpas this past week and it was exhausting and a lot of hard work.  Julio Cruz was an awesome instructor and was very helpful.

The first…

What is functional programming?  I’ve heard of it and dabbled in it with Xamarin to get the F# and C# t-shirt a while ago but recently wanted to look more into it and in particular F#.

A long, long time ago at the University of CincinnatiI took a class in Fortran, Mathematica (which I loved), Lisp and ProLog.  Since then I’ve been exposed to and learning C++, Java, Visual Basic.NET, Java, Python…

Data Science Certification – MPP

Hello Again.  So, I’ve been busy with the Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) for Data Science track.  The program requires you to complete courses under 10 topics with different course options under some topics.  The courses are actually linked to EdX.org which also uses labs through Data Camp.

So far I certified in three of the ten required courses.

Data Science Orientation

Querying Data with…

Aliases

Next we will discuss a little about Aliases, what they are and how to use them.

To get help on aliases run the following command.

Get-Help about_Aliases –ShowWindow

Creating an alias with New-Alias CMDLET

Get-Help New-Alias or Get-Help Set-Alias

New-Alias –Name [new_alias_name] –Value [PowerShell_Command]

New-Alias –Name wos –Value Write-Output

I created an alias wos which is short for…

CMDLET Structure

The structure of powershell commands, also known as CMDLETs, is of the form verb-noun.

Example’s are the following

Get-Help

Update-Help

Set-ExecutionPolicy

Import-CSV

Export-GridView

Typically the nouns are singular.  There may be a few exceptions.

Verbs Approved Verbs

To get a list of approved verbs use the following PowerShell command.

Get-Verb

This displays the verb name and…

Florida Tech Events – March through June 2017

Here are the events that I am aware of in Florida the next few months.  If I’m missing any or they are incorrect let me know…

South Florida Code Camp 2017 – March 11

WordCamp Miami – March 26-27

Orlando Code Camp – April 8

Gulf Coast Maker Con 2017 – April 8

WordCamp Jacksonville – May 20-21

National Day of Civic Hacking 2017 Miami – June 2

IT Pro Camp Jacksonville – June 10

SQL Saturday South…

IT Events in Tampa this Quarter

The following events are coming up in Tampa January – March 2017.

Tampa Bay Startup Week – February 13-17, 2017  Follow on Twitter @TBStartupWeek

World IA Day Tampa Bay – February 18, 2017  Follow on Twitter @WIADTB

Coming Up

Gulf Coast Maker Con 2017 – April 8, 2017 Follow on Twitter @GulfCoastMakers

Other

Kid’s Open Make Day – Sundays,  1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

These are the events I am aware of via…

Getting Help with PowerShell

Using Help in PowerShell Updating Help

The first thing you will want to do on some regular basis is update your help.

To update help in PowerShell you first should be running in an elevated prompt, aka Running as Administrator

Once you verify you are running PowerShell as an Administrator you can run the following command to update your help.

Update-Help – This is used to get and update the help…

PowerShell for the Beginner

Installing PowerShell

For most users PowerShell comes pre-installed.  For more information on installing PowerShell (PoSH) review the following link.

Installing Windows PowerShell – MSDN

PowerShell Online Resources

PowerShell on MSDN

PowerShell Documentation on MSDN

PowerShell on GitHub – PowerShell Team

Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog – Ed Wilson

MSFT Scripting Guys – Twitter @ScriptingGuys

Accessing/S…

New Years Resolutions and what to expect in 2017

Hello 2017

2017 Here I come

I just finished reading most of John Sonmez’s book ‘Soft Skills – The software developer’s life manual’, been part of John’s Mailing list , reading his The Simple Programmer blog and listening to his The Simple Programmer Podcast during 2016.  I got a lot of takeaways from him, and others and hope to put into action this year.

One of the first things I did, and am…

2016 – Oh My

Goodbye 2016

Eventful 2016

It’s been a busy 2016 for this guy. 

In July, I was promoted from an Applications Systems Analyst (ASA) to a Senior Applications Programmer Analyst (SAPA) but the job has totally changed, well sort of.

I went from being on the Database team where I did a lot of things with several version of SQL Server including 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012 and 2014 but also a lot of…