RFC: Information in PoshCode Module Manifests
OK, I’m putting this out there to see if I’ve missed anything that would be useful. This is the list of metadata that we’ll be storing about Modules in the PoshCode repository. It duplicates most of the information in the PowerShell Manifests, but it adds more of information that we feel is important for searching, [...]
F.A.Q.: How do I Install a PowerShell Module
As a warm up to writing my best-practices posts, I decided to answer this frequently asked question on the PowerShell wiki at PoshCode. I’m not going to repeat the whole post here, but suffice it to say that there’s a good explanation on the How Do I Install a PowerShell Module page, along with this [...]
PoshCode Poll: How do you want Search to work?
If you can only have ONE of these, how would you like to search our PoshCode.org script/module repository?(opinion poll)
PoshCode now Twitters
Well, over the weekend I stole a few moments from thinking about PoshCode 2.0 to think about PoshCode 1.0 … and I added two things: Feedback I’ve replaced the misused “comment” box on the website with a full GetSatisfaction.com widget, so you can get your voice heard and get feedback (in the past it’s been [...]
PoshCode Updated for CTP3
I’ve updated the PoshCode script module to support CTP3, and added a -limit parameter to the Get-PoshCode cmdlet so you can specify how many items you want retrieved in the case where there are a lot of matches for your search terms — by default the limit is 25. Improvements to the underlying web search [...]
PowerShell User Group and Community News!
I keep forgetting to mention this! I’m speaking at the next PowerShell Virtual User Group this Thursday, November 13th at 12PM EST. Join us if you’re interested in any of my PowerShell CodePlex projects (PoshConsole, PoshCode, WASP). Actually, join us even if you’re not, because there’s going to be a demo of the latest version [...]
PoshCode OpenSearch
Well, an interesting comment came up today that the new version of PoshCode.org that we’re working on should support OpenSearch and of course, me being me, I said: oh, OpenSearch is easy, gimme a minute… And three hours later, I’m going to bed. However, I did manage to add paging support so you can “browse” [...]
New PoshCode features from July 2008
So, there’s a few new features in the latest version of the PoshCode script module, and a few new features in the repository itself, including an embed feature, which I will demonstrate by embedding one here. Notice that the scripts on the site have an embed code, and it will normally embed the full height [...]
Searching the PoshCode Repository
I’ve been having problems with the search functionality on the PoshCOde repository, and I just thought I’d throw this up here because I just now solved the biggest problem: ranking. Up until now, the results have not been returned in order of relevance — this is because the search works using MySQL’s FULLTEXT BOOLEAN search, [...]