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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team.

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    - 
      We'd like to congratulate returning PowerShell MVPs and the newest MVP Antoine Habart (author of [PoshBoard](http://www.poshboard.com/))


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      [PoshBoard v2.0 just released](http://www.poshboard.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:poshboard-20-available&catid=1:poshboard&Itemid=3&lang=en)


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      PowerShell Cookbook [now available on the iPhone](http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/PowerShellCookbookNowAvailableOnIPhone.aspx)


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      The Exchange team blogs about [PowerShell changes coming in E2010](http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452423.aspx)

    Interview

    Links







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        Comment-based help: [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819489.aspx](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819489.aspx)

    Questions







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        finked: ## what was your first scripting language?


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        palen: ## Did you spend much time on performance in the parser, or was that largely v1 kind of stuff?


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        glnsize: ## as a comment... I don't write anything without implementing cmdlet bindings


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        glnsize: ## ahhh there's cut and paste and your not typing this stuff at the console... keeping the parameters the same as c# allows me to easily translate code


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        finked: ## what other areas might get performance boosts in the future?


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        glnsize: ## what happened to runspaces, in ctp2 i could use runspaces... v2 switched to jobs and now I can't run scriptblocks locally in seperate runspaces.  rather i don't think i can...


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        palen: ## Wait, an API for the PowerShell tokenizer?

Resources

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      PoshCode: [Get-DominosOrderStatus script](http://poshcode.org/1355)!


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      Another method to provide help for you functions is by using external files. Chad Miller [makes it easier](http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%21EA42395138308430%21542.entry).


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      Doug Finke [shares a cool project](http://dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/28/try-powershell-an-interactive-tutorial/) for an interactive PowerShell tutorial


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      MVP Guy Thomas releases his [Ezine 185 "PowerShell and Services"](http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/ezine/ezine185.htm)


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      New PowerShellTips blog: [http://www.powershelltips.org/](http://www.powershelltips.org/)


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      MVP Dmitry Sotnikov [shows how to use](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/background-jobs-in-powergui/) background jobs in PowerGui


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      [Monitor login failures from the event log](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/thread/9130fce0-74bd-4e35-a3c6-54552af98ee3/) (from The Scripting Guys forum)

Tips

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          [Piping a range of integers](http://powershellstation.com/2009/09/20/a-handy-trick-ive-started-to-use-a-lot/) to reduce your workload


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          [Explicitly casting types](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tobias/archive/2008/11/17/of-quot-types-quot-and-quot-objects-quot.aspx) (thanks Tobias)


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          Allowing non-administrators to [create a remote session](http://msgoodies.blogspot.com/2009/09/using-ps-session-without-having.html) in PowerShell v2.

      Gotcha







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          Watch out for trailing commas in your csv files

      One-Liner







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          function bg { Start-Job -ScriptBlock { $args } }