Alex Sarafian

Alex Sarafian @sarafian

About: Senior generalist with technology

Location:
Brussels
Joined:
Jun 26, 2019

Alex Sarafian
articles - 16 total

Upgrade from Pester v4 to v5

Background Recently somebody submitted a pull request in my SemVerPS which failed with the...

Learn More 4 0Jun 26 '21

PlantUML tips and tricks

I love PlantUML. It has it's limitations but if the size and the complexity of the diagrams can be co...

Learn More 7 0Mar 12 '21

Enhance PowerShell tracing and logging for the console and transcriptions

Background XWrite was originally created for PowerShell 4 but it works flawlessly with the...

Learn More 5 0Apr 12 '20

Add semantic versioning capabilities to PowerShell

The SemVerPS PowerShell module offers the ability to work with Semantic Version utilizing the .net im...

Learn More 2 0Apr 7 '20

Render a computer badge with name and state in markdown with PowerShell using MarkdownPS

Originally posted here Using MarkdownPS PowerShell module this is a simple cmdlet that Tests the...

Learn More 0 4Apr 6 '20

Render badges with PowerShell MarkdownPS and shields.io

Originally poste here In my previous post Generate markdown from PowerShell with MarkdownPS I explai...

Learn More 5 0Apr 6 '20

Generate markdown from PowerShell with MarkdownPS

Originally posted here MarkdownPS is a PowerShell module that wraps the markdown syntax into PowerSh...

Learn More 1 0Apr 6 '20

Creating a private Facebook Messenger chatbot

If you need a bot for your personal home automation, then this post describes how to achieve what is...

Learn More 9 0Mar 28 '20

Creating a private Telegram chatbot

If you need a bot for your personal home automation, then this post describes how to achieve what is...

Learn More 12 4Mar 25 '20

Low (No) Code tools from a software engineer's perspective

I've always had reservations for such tools and decided to take a look into this world of low (no) co...

Learn More 6 1Mar 25 '20

The problem with regional settings/formatting from an expat's viewpoint

I'm from Greece which means non latin alphabet in the local language. Like many other Greek people wh...

Learn More 8 0Jan 2 '20

Building Careers with Empathy with Scott Hanselman

I thought to share visibility on this career and life video both the perspective of the person growin...

Learn More 5 1Oct 18 '19

JSONPath for composite types in PowerShell with extra tools for debugging

Although JSONPath is a stand-alone solution to implement the JSONPath concept in PowerShell, it was d...

Learn More 7 0Jul 18 '19

Improved SOAP proxies management in PowerShell

Although SOAPProxy is a stand-alone solution to improving SOAP over PowerShell, it was developed as p...

Learn More 7 0Jul 18 '19

Introduction to posts about JSONPath, SOAP and Amadeus with PowerShell

The airline industry The airline and in general the travelling industry depend quite a lot...

Learn More 7 0Jul 18 '19

Purpose of agile and the many misconceptions about it

Introduction There have been many years since Agile went viral in the IT world and most or...

Learn More 7 0Jul 9 '19