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• Mike F Robbins
Scripting Games

PowerShell Tip #3 from the Winner of the Advanced Category in the 2013 Scripting Games

In my previous blog article (PowerShell Tip #2), I left off with the subject of inline help and stated there was a better way. I’m fast-forwarding through lots of concepts and jumping right into “Advanced Functions and Scripts” with this tip because they are where you’ll find the answer to a “better way” to add inline help. Click here to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.

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• Jonathan Medd
Scripting Games

Winter Scripting Games 2014

If you’re looking to learn or improve on existing skills as part of a new year goal and one of those in PowerShell, then you may find it useful to check out the Winter Scripting Games 2014. When you are looking to improve your scripting skills it can sometimes be tricky if you don’t have a practical problem to solve. By taking part in these games you will have a number of opportunities to apply your skills to _real _problems.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Winter 2014 – WE HAS PRIZES!!

Many thanks to SAPIEN Technologies for providing - completely without us asking - first-place and overall-best prizes for The Scripting Games! We’ll have copies of PowerShell Studio (x2), PrimalScript (x2), and the entire SAPIEN Software Suite (x1) for our overall top-scoring team at the end of the Games. Team members can decide how to divvy up the loo themselves. Remember that Event 1 is coming up soon: Instructions available 2014-01-18 00:00:00 UTC Entries accepted starting 2014-01-19 00:00:00 UTC All entries due by 2014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC **You must be registered and on a team before we begin accepting entries, or you will not be able to participate.

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• Mike F Robbins
Scripting Games

PowerShell Tip #2 from the Winner of the Advanced Category in the 2013 Scripting Games

Tip #2 - Comment (Document) your code! This is another one of those tips that probably isn’t very popular, but regardless of how good you are at writing PowerShell scripts and functions, they’re useless if no one else can figure out how to use them. You might be thinking that you’re the only one who uses the PowerShell code that you write, but I’m sure that you like to go on vacation just like the rest of us and none of us are going to live forever.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Team Discussion Tips

When you’re logged into the Games, you’ll notice that clicking on your team pulls up a “team discussion” box. That’s a shared discussion area for you and your team. However, if you click on one of the files you’ve uploaded, you’ll see the discussion turn into a “File Discussion.” We retain a separate thread for each file you upload, so that you and your team can discuss that file specifically.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Teams in Danger

Note that as of the time of this post (about 2pm Pacific on Jan 5th), the following teams do not have enough players to participate in the upcoming Practice Event: Lake County Hoosiers A Annihilators AZPOSH Avengers PeopleTecIsAwesome Time Travel is Dangerous Kotagiris wow. much power. very shell. Blasters CCC Anteaters Barracudas Hypothermia Bearcats #PSexec Avalanche Bull Gators Alligators To reiterate: **You must have 2-6 players signed into the Web site and joined to your team, or you will be unable to post entries.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Winter 2014 Notice

Due to some vagaries in the system, we have some users who “belong” to multiple teams. I think I’ve corrected the problem so it won’t crop up again. A couple of players’ team memberships were manually reduced to 1. If it was you, and you’re suddenly on the wrong team, post in the forum and I’ll fix it for you. For everyone else, when you go to the event list you may be redirected to a “You’re on multiple teams” page, and asked to click the team you wish to remain on.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Practice Event Rules

On Monday, our practice event should be open at http://ScriptingGames.org. **If you formed a team but only have one player on Monday morning, you will not be able to submit entries. **I’ve noticed several folks who have only a single player but who have set their team membership to “private,” meaning nobody can join you unless you provide them with your invitation code. **Your team must have 2-6 players to participate in the Games.

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• Mike F Robbins
Scripting Games

PowerShell Tip #1 from the Winner of the Advanced Category in the 2013 Scripting Games

In case you haven’t heard, the 2014 Winter Scripting Games are just now getting started. Regardless of your skill level with PowerShell, it couldn’t be a better time to participate since this is the first time in the history of the scripting games that you’ll be able to work as part of a team and receive proactive feedback (before your code is judged) from a team of expert coaches who use PowerShell in the real world on a daily basis.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Winter Scripting Games Team Formation in Full Swing

It looks like Team Formation is in full swing, with more than a dozen teams already registered for The Scripting Games: Winter 2014. Some team tips: If you create a new team, we’re assigning it a default team name. You can immediately change that. Teams start as public, but we’re allowing you to make them private. This removed the team from the “join up” list, and gives you an invite code.

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