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June 30, 2022

Learning Test-Driven Development: Book Review

I am always looking for books that could unlock new possibilities and help me improve my technical skills. TDD is an area where I consider my experience very limited and where I would like to be inspired.

When this book was published just a couple of months ago I saw an interesting opportunity to refresh my knowledge on this subject and check if what I learned so far and what I have done in my professional experience could be improved.

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August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

How to Export Third-Party Drivers with PowerShell

I’ve recently accepted a new role and joined a new company this week. During the first day, I’ve followed my usual practice of using chocolatey to install most of the developer’s tools I will use, installed WSL2, and I’ve created a full backup of the laptop. Continue reading “How to Export Third-Party Drivers with PowerShell”

July 15, 2021July 16, 2021

How to run on-demand AV scanning on a file with MS Defender using Powershell

Last month I’ve published an article on MS Defender and Nagios, on a similar topic this week I used the MS Defender Powershell module and wrote a helper function to scan on-demand a file using mpcmd.exe. Continue reading “How to run on-demand AV scanning on a file with MS Defender using Powershell”

July 6, 2021August 1, 2021

How to upload files to Azure Blob Storage using Powershell via the REST API

When I need to upload files on Azure Blog Storage the tools that I generally use are Storage Explorer (installed on my workstation or the web version included in the portal) or AzCopy, but within a script, I would prefer using Azure RestAPI.
Before writing this article I searched similar blogs around this topic, the most interesting one was written by Roger Zander’s blog, the only difference is that I’ve defined a function and validated the parameters, using splatting it is a bit more elegant to read in my opinion. Continue reading “How to upload files to Azure Blob Storage using Powershell via the REST API”