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• Mike F Robbins
Scripting Games

People Who are Blogging About the 2013 Scripting Games

I’m sure that most people can easily find any of the blogs of the official judges from the 2013 Scripting Games. I recommend reading those blogs whether you’re competing in the scripting games or not since there’s a wealth of great information contained in them. The best place to find those blogs if you don’t know already is the Judges Notes section under the Scripting Games area on PowerShell.org so there’s no reason to duplicate them here.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

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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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

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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• Glenn Sizemore
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Week 2: Formatting edition

This time of the year always feels like someone is holding down the fast forward button. I blinked and here we are Friday morning another week of scripts in the rear view. I spent most of my week in the beginner class this week, and was greeted by a combination of beginners and scripters who weren"™t quite ready to step up to advanced. More of the latter if I"™m to be honest.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

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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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

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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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Are you getting unfair comments in the Games?

I continue to be amused by folks’ reactions to the Games this year. There’s been some buzz on Twitter this morning from folks who feel some of their comments - and the corresponding low scores - aren’t warranted. In a couple of cases I’ve looked at, they’re right - their entries are being downrated for reasons that are actually not best practices; by following the best practices, these entries are getting lower scores.

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Event 1 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 1 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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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Event 2 is final!

Event 2 has closed for submissions and will open for voting later this evening. Good luck! And voters: remember that quality comments will vastly increase your chances of winning a prize!

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• Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games: What Should We Do With Comments?

Right now, I’ve got the Scripting Games Web site built to only make comments visible to a entry’s author. Some of the comments have been a little snarky, and I don’t want to create an online argument forum. I’m curious what folks think we should do as a next step. I could, for example, make comments visible to everyone once voting has ended for an event (I don’t want to make comments visible while we’re still accepting comments, because it’ll run a big risk of creating a discussion, which isn’t the intent).

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