Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches

Preface

I have a unique outlook on scripting. In my first career as an aircraft mechanic, I worked with machinists—folks who used tools and dies to carve metal into aircraft parts. A step above machinist, career-wise, was the tool and die maker. Those were the highly-trained folks who actually created the tools and dies used by machinists. Folks aspired to be toolmakers, as they were nicknamed, because it was considered a bit cushier job. You didn’t work on the hot shop floor around screaming machines and flying shards; you worked in a cool office, on a computer-aided design (CAD) station. You wore nicer clothes.

It turns out that PowerShell can be treated in much the same way. Imagine working in a nice, cool office, with no users demanding ...