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• December 29, 2019
• in powershell
• 1 min read

Using Powershell To Retrieve Latest Package Url From Github Releases

Github can host package releases, I will show you how to use Powershell to retrieve the latest release download url.

• December 29, 2019
• in powershell
• 2 min read

Using Scoop On Windows

I've been using Scoop for setting up my personal and professional Windows development desktops since nearly 2 years.

• September 14, 2019
• in powershell, network
• 3 min read

Fast TCP port check in Powershell

The Test-NetConnection cmdlet is great and verbose but too slow if the remote port to check is not opened. This is due to its timeout setting and cannot be modified. In this port, I will show you a custom function that leverages the power of System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient to accelerate the port test.

• November 5, 2018
• in powershell, redis
• 2 min read

Creating Multiple Redis Instance Services On Windows

Even Salvatore Sanfilippo (creator of Redis) thinks it's a bad idea to use multiple DBs in Redis. So we can install as many Redis instances as the number of DBs we need. This post will show you how to create multiple Redis instance as Windows service on the same Windows server.

• November 1, 2018
• in powershell, proxy
• 2 min read

Setting Pwsh Invoke-WebRequest Proxy

Different than Windows Powershell, Powershell Core doesn't use the system proxy setting on Windows. This post will show you an one-line command to set Powershell Core web cmdlets proxy.

• October 18, 2018
• in gitlab, cicd, python, powershell
• 4 min read

Using Gitlab integrated CICD for Python project on Windows

Gitlab ships with its own free CICD which works pretty well. This post will give you an example of the CICD file .gitlab-ci.yml for a Python project running on Gitlab Windows runner.

• September 28, 2018
• in powershell
• 4 min read

Terminate Powershell script or session

I always asked myself how to terminate a Powershell script or session, each time I needed to do some tests by myself and also searched on Google. But I could never remember it. So I would like to take this post to note it down, the next time I need to terminate, just need to come back to here.

• September 20, 2018
• in gitlab, cicd, powershell
• 4 min read

Install Gitlab Runner on Windows by Powershell PsRemoting

Gitlab runner can be installed on Windows OS. For people like me who is more familiar with Windows, we would like to use Windows as a Gitlab runner. This post will give you a simplified procedure (winrm PsRemoting full command line) about its installation with some tips and tricks that I haven't seen anywhere on the Internet.

• September 5, 2018
• in scheduling, powershell
• 5 min read

Use Powershell to manage Windows Scheduled Task

A recent project made me to use the Windows scheduled task to execute periodically some python scripts. After the project, I find using Powershell to manage the Windows scheduled task is not so straightforward, that's why I opened this post to share my experience on some common usage, and hope this can save your time if you also need to use it.

• June 26, 2018
• in python, powershell, package
• 5 min read

Install Python on Windows with Powershell without administrator privileges

As a Windows DevOps, I often use Powershell and Python, Powershell is installed by Windows out of box, but this is not for Python. And for my working environment, I don't have the administrator privileges on some servers. I will show you in this post how to rapidly deploy Python on Windows as a standard user by using Powershell with Nuget.