Pretty much every blog I’ve produced is a real world solution that I have used in production. Sometimes they are solutions I have worked on recently, sometimes months or even a year has gone by before I finally wrote it down. Sometimes blogging and a real world solution occur at the exact same time. I …
In Powershell, aside from the old school Net objects, we have Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest cmdlets to make HTTP/REST calls. I’ve been exploring both as part of my APIs and Powershell series. So far there are times when one is better than the other at certain things. Like Invoke-RestMethod turning JSON response files directly into Powershell …
Starting out on helpdesk and moving to systems administration, I never had any exposure to APIs and how to use them. I would be in meetings and people would start talking about APIs and this would be me. Instead of being clueless, I would rather know a little bit when people smarter than me start …