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More Updates to the Scripting Games

I’ve been making some more programming changes to the Scripting Games, based on folks’ feedback. If you run into problems, please notify me via the Feedback Forums link at the bottom of every page on the site. Use the email address provided. Don’t post a comment here, because I might not see it quickly. Multiple comments per reviewer - you can now leave multiple comments on an entry. Combined with the ability to mark your comment as pertaining to a line or range of lines, this should allow for more granular commenting.

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Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Bartek Bielawski

Bartosz (Bartek) Bielawski is a busy IT Administrator with an international company, PAREXEL. He loves PowerShell and automation. That love earned him the honor of Microsoft MVP. He shares his knowledge mainly on his blogs: in English (http://becomelotr.wordpress.com) and Polish (http://powershellpl.net) and through articles published in the Polish IT Professional (http://it-professional.pl) magazine. He is co-author of PowerShell Deep Dives book (http://www.manning.com/hicks/). He loves good code that takes advantage of PowerShell pipeline and advanced functions grouped in modules.

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Scripting Games Event 2 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 2 of The Scripting Games 2013! Winners: You can log into The Scripting Games Web site and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013.

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Announcing the PowerShell Summit North America 2014

The PowerShell Summit North America 2014 will be held April 28, 29, and 30 at the Meydenbauer Center on Northeast 6th Street in Bellevue, WA. Your membership in the PowerShell Summit also makes you a yearlong member of PowerShell.org, the online hub for the PowerShell community. Membership includes a daily continental breakfast, daily hot lunch, and three tracks of expert-led lectures and discussions. 2014 tracks include: INTERNALS: Inner secrets of PowerShell, suitable for developers and admins alike.

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Changes in Scripting Games Displays

I want to point out some changes that are being made to the Games: Effective immediately, entry author names and current scores will not be shown for events that are still open for new votes. This is intended to help ensure everyone submitting a score isn’t influenced by other people. I’ve seen a bit of ganging-up that I’d rather not see. Archived events - those completely closed and for which prizes have been awarded - will display full information, including user names of comment authors.

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Scripting Games beta entry viewer

If you’d like a quick peek at something, log into the Scripting Games Web site, and go look at the entries in Event 1. Your URL should look like this: http://scriptinggames.org/entrylist.php?eventid=11 Change it to this: http://scriptinggames.org/entrylist_.php?eventid=11 This is the new viewer I’m building. It isn’t rigged up to accept votes or comments, yet, but I’m working on that. It’s being developed for Firefox; I’ll test the other major browsers once it’s a bit more complete.

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As Event 3 gets underway, here are some Event 2 stats…

Event 3 will be open for entries in about ten minutes, but I thought I’d share some Event 2 information. Keep in mind that Event 2 is open for voting until the 14th, GMT. Our Beginner Track had 120 entries this time, while the Advanced had 124. That contrasts with 165 and 159 from Event 1 - a perfectly normal falloff that’s occurred during every edition of past Games. Folks get busy, maybe get discouraged, but we’re keeping right on the trendline.

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Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Jan Egil Ring

Jan Egil Ring is a multiple-year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions in the Windows PowerShell technical community. He has a strong passion for Windows PowerShell, and regularly writes articles on his blog. He occasionally also writes articles for others, such as the PowerShell Magazine. As a judge in the Scripting Games, he will be writing articles on his blog reviewing both good and bad observations in the reviewed scripts.

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