PowerShell.org Articles published in May 2013.
A lot of you have been working too hard at solving the problem (both beginner and advanced). Some of this is clearly related to trying to offer a very complete solution but some look like attempts to write extra clever or elegant code. In the “real world”, there"™s probably not …
Event 2 is scheduled to open this evening in The Scripting Games - remember, all times on the Scripting Games Web site are GMT. You will need to adjust for your local time zone. Voting on Event 1 is scheduled to end on May 7th, so you still have 5 days to earn pointlets and leave comments for your …
As promised, today more general thoughts on scripts I’ve seen in both categories in the first event. I’m Polish, so I decided to blog notes both in my own language, and in English, “just in case”. Also, my Polish is much better than my English (I hope!), so for people from …
With Event 1 in the books for the 2013 Scripting Games, we are now in the voting period where the community gets the chance to play judge on all of the scripts submitted by voting and commenting on the submissions. I aim to take a look at the common items that pose problems and recommendations on …
While working on my notes for first event of Scripting Games I was looking around what others wrote, and was surprised that people really think that enabling SupportsShouldProcess is good enough. In my opinion - it is not. And because this is relatively big topic I decided to write separate blog …
Jan Egil Ring weighs in with his thoughts on Event 1: http://blog.powershell.no/category/2013-Scripting-Games-Judges-Notes/feed/
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/
