Articles from May 2013

PowerShell.org Articles published in May 2013.

Bartek Bielawski

Event 3: My way…

Third event is open for voting, but as usual - before I see any of the scripts submitted by you, I’m posting my version. Tried to sneak in few tricks I’ve learned here and there, hope you will enjoy reading and will tell me why I’m wrong. 😉 You can find whole post here.

Boe Prox

Scripting Games 2013: Event 2 Notes

I spent some time last week and this weekend to compile a list of notes of what I have seen with the Event 2 submissions that could show improvement. I touched up on some items with my previous article where I picked out some submissions that I liked and didn’t quite like but wanted to touch …

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. …

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 …

Art Beane
PowerShell for Admins

Some notes on Event 2 Advanced

I hate to seem negative, but I’ve noticed a few things about a number of the advanced entries that seem like folks didn’t read the instructions, or just weren’t careful about details. There were a surprising number of entries that had [string]$ComputerName instead of …

Bartek Bielawski

Event 2: My notes…

Today I finally had some time to look at all entries in both categories. What I liked, and what I did not like about them? You can find answers, as previously, either in Polish, or in English. I focused mainly on things I did not like, but I would anyway say that scripts are really good (overall) …