Ben Wilkinson

I live & breathe Tech. Favorite platform is #Azure. #Bicep #PowerShell #DSC #dotNET. DevOps + SRE. SpaceX 🚀 Learning: #Dev+#SRE+#CSharp. Ex PFE.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

Agent Framework is gold.

https://t.co/4Dn8WlfxZF

Lots of good content about it, so easy to learn, plus comes with good examples in the repo.

Using with Azure Ai Foundry is also great.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

Finally started converting my #Bicep to User Defined Types. Extremely happy with the outcome. Thank you to the Bicep Team, for all of the hard work.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

Cool demo.. 👌

[Craig Loewen @craigaloewen]

PowerToys has a new feature we're announcing today: 'Advanced Paste!' Its goal is to let you paste your clipboard content in any format you'd like, and can even custom format your content using AI. Check out the video below to learn more:
https://t.co/NcLDcVK0R6

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

https://t.co/MtZKMFEdcW Deep Dive into RegEx with Stephen Toub.. 🔥Session. Dotnet regex.

[BicepLang @BicepLang]

To all Bicep/ARM Template users: if you are interested in sharing your thoughts on using CoPilot in your deployments and IaC experiences, please sign up for this user study here! https://t.co/7LlDmqcQ2E

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@JohnLokerse I like to use lookup tables for sets of common information. Then you just have a lookup value in the param file on objects for different setting lookup. Many are also just bool E.g. 0/1 to enable disable features.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

Really enjoying being back at #pshsummit again this year #PowerShell 🙏 Great sessions and DevOps topics. ✅

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@BrettMiller_IT @Steve_MSFT @BicepLang Something needs a shake up if this is going to make compelling forward progress. I definitely understand the challenges & constraints. At the end of the day this is a Configuration Management product that has all of the pieces, yet fragmented implementation. It needs portability.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@Steve_MSFT @BicepLang The intern projects in the @BicepLang team have been doing great things. I am sure they can spec out something and gather community feedback in preparation for the integration.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@Steve_MSFT Lots of work on extensibility etc. from @BicepLang Plus the authoring experience is amazing. I hope this communication channel with @Steve_MSFT and team is open.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@markwragg @markrussinovich Thank you @markwragg

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@markrussinovich I was thinking about that Block chain EOL tweet that you posted a while back? Along the lines of it was a dead-end path in technology? Was that 2022, I tried scrolling back, however only got as far as 2023 before they ran out.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

Wow, one of the many long time coming changes... #Azure Virtual Networks. Appreciate this update,... This was probably the most confusing thing for new comers to Azure (ARM) template deployment, including Bicep.

https://t.co/FEkjaf4bDG

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

With #PowerShell Classes. What is the best way to write code and update and re-import class definitions and using imports?

Is the best option in #vscode?
"powershell.debugging.createTemporaryIntegratedConsole": true

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@Kvad The $psstyle is something that is available to anyone on pwsh. 7.2 +

So it's user configurable to your preference and the implementation is really well done.

https://t.co/om3p2ViuKa

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

Adding this to my PowerShell profile, has brought me so much joy... So much better in logging as well.

$PSStyle.Formatting.Verbose = "`e[36;1m"

Not sure why I didn't do it sooner.

[Ben Wilkinson @brwilkinson]

@Slav636 hi @Slav636 It just changes the Verbose Text color... for some reason both Verbose and Warning streams are Orange in recent versions of Powershelll. Originally I think it was in the ISE Verbose was cyan and it's a nice contrast, when you write to both streams in the same output.