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I’ve received a few comments from folks after my observations on the Scripting Games Event 1. In those observations, I noted how much I loved: [ValidateScript({Test-Path $_})][string]$path As a way of testing to make sure your -Path parameter got a valid value, I love this. I’d never …
Tobias Weltner offers some “don’ts” from his review of Event 1 entries: http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-advanced-1/
There’s been a lot of dismay floating around the community about the state of “community voting” in the Scripting Games. Some folks are voting without leaving comments (we’ve expanded the comment field to 2000 characters, hopefully that’ll help), and some disagreement …
The first challenge of Scripting Games 2013 is complete! Honestly, you win by getting the experience of playing. I hope everyone is in there voting and writing really constructive comments. I’ll get over there in a minute, but I wanted to make sure that I got this information out to everyone …
Today is my first day working in my new role as Technical Product Manager at Provance Technologies. A little while back Provance approached me to talk about this position, and it seemed like a very natural fit. Rarely have I felt such a positive vibe from a company through the interview process, so …
As of right now, we’ve got almost 1900 votes on entries in the Scripting Games. Remember that each vote is a “pointlet” (see the PowerShell tie-in we did there?), which is basically a raffle ticket in our prize lottery. But… there’s a secret about the lottery. …
June Blender is was a senior programming writer on the Windows PowerShell team at Microsoft from Windows PowerShell 1.0 ““ 3.0. You see her work every time you type Get-Help for the core modules. She’s now working on the Windows Azure Active Directory SDK team, and she remains an avid …
Looking for not-so-expert solution for Event 1 in both categories? Wonder how one of the judges would do it, if he had a chance? Want to return favor and tell me what I could do better and what I’m doing wrong? Don’t hesitate. 🙂 I decided it may be helpful to post my solutions before I …
Following on from my previous post we"™ll look at how the two types of cmdlets compare for accessing remote machines. I used a similar format to the previous tests but was accessing a remote machine. First off was the WMI cmdlet ““ using DCOM to access the remote Windows 2012 server …
Challenge #1 of Scripting Games 2013 is coming to a close. I can’t wait to see the results! I solved both the Beginner and Advanced versions just for practice and I learned a lot along the way. They’re not easy, but if you haven’t yet tried them, go for it. And be sure to review …
