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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Scripting Guy Ed Wilson about the 2011 Scripting Games!

News

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• The 2011 Scripting Games have been announced{#fa7n}
• MVP Thomas Lee has announced two dates for his weekend PowerCamp in York, UK{#iyfp}. London coming soon as well.
• SAPIEN PrimalForms 2011 has entered private beta{#sa03}
• The first annual Tampa IT Camp is coming March 19th!{#dz7u}
• VMware has released the official PowerCLI poster for v4.1.1{#o8vs}

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Interview **

The news is brought to you by Don Jones’ 2011 PowerShell Retreat in Las Vegas

 

Links:

• 2011 Scripting Games Study Guide{#h1or}
• MVP Sean Kearney produced Scripting Games commercials:
  • Bionic Scripto{#n1:g}
  • 2011 Scripting Games are calling you{#h:yx}
  • Krazy Ktel Style Commercial{#yt9n}
• Easy to remember URL: http://scriptingguys.com{#lnpg}

Chatroom Buzz:

21:47 You can’t see it but Hal is wearing a cool Indiana Jones shirt

21:48 why thank you jonwalz-1 

21:48 got it from Disney

21:52 +1 Scripting Wife is awesome

21:53 Do I get to go in the Beginner category since I’ve never participated in the Scripting Games before?  🙂

21:57 that’s what we need in a scripting guy: a PowerShell Bigot

21:59 Ed, Boots and WPK are (slowly) merging

21:59 like two galaxies

22:06 ha! I love mixed metaphors!

22:06 gotta rein that train in!

22:07 my own original: You don’t want to be the third wheel in a two horse race

22:10 who’s going to grade the vbscripts?

** Resources **

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies{#ke7l}

• Provide Progress for Your Script{#abiz}
• Quick reference guide for PowerShell with Lync Server 2010{#jtf5}
• Use PowerShell to find expired certificates{#q0md}
• Nice beginner walkthrough of querying SQL from PowerShell{#u33f}
• NetApp DataONTAP PSProvider{#dh84}
• Call PowerShell from ASP.NET{#fhub}
• Session support for PowerShell ISE!{#bz6i}

Tips

• Speed up the reading of large text files{#enar}
• Hal talks about Group-Object