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June Blender

ValidateScript for Beginners

There"™s been a lot of chatter about in Scripting Games 2013 blog posts about the ValidateScript attribute. The chatter is, appropriately, confined to the advanced events ““ this sort of thing is not expected in a one-liner. But I thought I”™d take a minute and demystify it ““ …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Event 3 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 3 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 …

Don Jones

Some Event 3 Notes

I didn’t see anyone (although I’ll admit I haven’t checked every entry) using my EnhancedHTML module from Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell. I am ensaddened. But man, Event 3 shows that you can really do well by learning a wee bit of HTML. Knowing an H2 and HR tag makes for much …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Your Weekend Games Report

It’s been a crazy-busy week for me, so I’m just getting caught up here. I’m off observing the beta-teach of the new 10961A PowerShell 3 class in Phoenix next week, but I’ll be keeping an eye on the Games. So let’s run some numbers. The Games have 2092 users at present, …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Olver Lipkau

I have been working for AtoS, formaly Siemens IT Solutions and Services, for 6 years as a IT Consultant. I was 15 when I started scripting. First only batch scripts to automate simple things. With time the scriptt grew in complexity and languages. VBS, AutoIt, AHK and finally PowerShell, which …

Bartek Bielawski

Event 3: My notes…

I’m almost done judging event 3, perfect time to share few thoughts about things I’ve seen in this event. A lot of great entries, but still few things that could have been done (in my opinion) better. If you want to know my general opinion - you can read it either in English or in …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

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 …