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Refreshing the Blog

Dave Carroll — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

I published my first article here over 4 years ago. Well, not exactly here, but we’ll get to that in a few.

It had been over a year since I published any article prior to the end of August. A myriad of reasons all claim a part of “why didn’t I”. Perhaps ironically (for a technical site), one of the reasons was purely technical.

As discussed in an early article, How I Blog, this site is a generated static site powered by Jekyll. Though with all of its simplistic power, like its eponymous origin, there can be a dark side to a Jekyll-based site.

Publish a Post for a Jekyll Site on a Schedule

Dave Carroll — Mon, 11 May 2020 09:00:00 -0500

Scheduled Posts

A few months ago, Jeff Hicks asked me to participate in a PSBlogWeek focused on the release of PowerShell 7. I was ecstatic and honored. The contributors were asked to publish one to two blog posts on a specific topic, at a specific time.

How I Blog

Dave Carroll — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Someone asked what I used to produce this blog. This post will provide the methodology and details.

The Decision to Blog

I’ve hosted a personal website on various platforms since early 2000. I’ve used FTP, SFTP, FrontPage, WebDAV, Dreamweaver, WordPress, and probably some others that I’ve forgotten about. Using WordPress, I had performance issues when the MySQL database was not located near the web host.

Even with a stance of ‘update all the plugins’, it was not enough to protect my site from hackers. Late in 2015, my site was hacked and it took me months to realize since they were just hosting hidden pages and hidden SEO info. Once I realized what had happened to my site, I converted it to a static hosted by (don’t judge) Google Sites. It solved the problem of a vulnerable site and poor performance.

Welcome to My PowerShell Blog

Dave Carroll — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings fellow PowerShell aficionados!

I feel I must begin with a confession: I was not an early adopter of PowerShell.

I began using PowerShell because I had no other choice. I needed to manage the Live@EDU environment at the college where I worked. Who had time to learn something that was only going to be used with that particular setup? Not this guy. Boy, was I wrong.

The more I needed to do with my environment, the more PowerShell quietly raised its hand.