Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Jeffrey Snover - Inside PowerShell

Posted By: Charles | Dec 3rd, 2008 @ 1:19 PM | 72,017 Views | 15 Comments
Welcome to another edition of Expert to Expert. Once again the venerable language master Erik Meijer leads the conversation. This time, we're lucky enough to have PowerShell creator and Partner Architect Jeffrey Snover. Jeffrey is really passionate about PowerShell and has worked hard to see that his .NET shell scripting technology ships in Windows 7 (it is on by default in Windows 7 and is used by administration components of the new OS). Erik is a big fan of PowerShell (especially since the code name of PowerShell was "Monad"Smiley) so we figured it would be useful to have Erik dig into the nitty gritty of PowerShell with Jeffrey and determine exactly what PowerShell is, how it's designed (and why), how it's used primarily (and secondarily) and finally how it will evolve. PowerShell is much more than a Windows-based shell scripting language and engine. But what, exactly, does this statement mean? Tune in. This is yet another great conversation between two stalwarts of the programming industry. Enjoy!
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#Dec 4th, 2008 @ 7:41 PM
joechung
joechung
Awesome video!  I would love to see better Visual Studio support (File | New | PowerShell Cmdlet, PowerShell Script Editor with IntelliSense support, etc) for PowerShell.  I asked Rico Mariani for a REPL in Visual Studio, but perhaps all that needs to be done is to create a PowerShell UI in Visual Studio.  Hearing Jeffrey mention a WPF PowerShell module in the next version of Visual Studio was great to hear!
#Dec 4th, 2008 @ 7:48 PM
bugseymalone
bugseymalone
Is it just me, or does Snover look like the Chuck Norris of IT?
What a stud!
#Dec 5th, 2008 @ 1:10 AM
vesuvius
vesuvius
Das Glasperlenspiel
Nah, he is Face in the A-Team. Minus the beard of course!
#Dec 5th, 2008 @ 6:35 AM
spivonious
spivonious
He reminds me of Morgan from the NBC show Chuck.
#Dec 5th, 2008 @ 12:52 PM
rroman81
rroman81
All the Chuck Norris jokes being redone for Jeffrey to reaffirm his supperiority.
Like,
Jeffrey Snover counted to infinity, twice.
When a boogey man goes to sleep, he checks for Jeffrey Snover in the closet.
Jeffrey Snover does not sleep, he waits.

Overall, it's an awesome video.  I cannot wait to see that future vision of serializing cmdlets from the remote host into a local host becoming a reality.  That sounds very powerful.
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