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In This Episode

****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Joel Bennett about PowerShell V3 and PoshCode

News

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  We have a new MVP [Michal Gajda](https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=6E8C20A2-9D16-4D44-9613-DF8FD605EEF8)!

  The vBrownBag podcast [just featured Josh Atwell and Jake Robinson for a "PowerCLI 201" session](http://damiankarlson.com/2012/04/09/vbrownbag-powercli-201-with-jakerobinson/)

  News from the [Scripting Games](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/09/so-how-are-the-2012-scripting-games-going-thus-far.aspx)

  Scripting Games quick tips from [Boe Prox](http://learn-powershell.net/2012/04/10/scripting-games-2012-quick-tips/)

  [Cisco recently released v0.9.7 of the UCS PowerTool](http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/pshell-download)

  New Deep Dive videos:



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      Bartosz Bielawski - [Tracing in PowerShell](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/video-bartosz-bielawski-tracing-in-powershell/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DmitrysPowerblog+%28Dmitry%27s+PowerBlog%29)



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      Dmitry Sotnikov - [PowerShell Jobs in v2 and v3](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/video-dmitry-sotnikov-powershell-jobs-in-v2-and-v3/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DmitrysPowerblog+%28Dmitry%27s+PowerBlog%29)



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      Shey Levy and Kirk Munro - [Leveraging Proxy Functions in PowerShell](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/video-shay-levy-and-kirk-munro-leveraging-proxy-functions-in-powershell/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DmitrysPowerblog+%28Dmitry%27s+PowerBlog%29)



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      Richard Siddaway - P[owerShell Events](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/video-richard-siddaway-powershell-events/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DmitrysPowerblog+%28Dmitry%27s+PowerBlog%29)



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      Jeffery Hicks - [Turn Command-Line Tools into PowerShell Tools](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/video-jeffery-hicks-turn-command-line-tools-into-powershell-tools/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DmitrysPowerblog+%28Dmitry%27s+PowerBlog%29)



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      Aleksandar Nikolic - [Delegation with Remoting](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/video-aleksandar-nikolic-delegation-with-remoting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DmitrysPowerblog+%28Dmitry%27s+PowerBlog%29)

Interview

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Links

  [PowerShell v3 - Finally on the DLR](http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-3-finally-on-the-dlr/)

  [PowerBot](http://huddledmasses.org/powerbot-2-an-irc-bot-in-powershell-script/) ([poshcode link](http://poshcode.org/?lang=&q=powerbot))

The Question

Mission to Mars: beefy laptop

Resources

  Joel Bennett tipped us off to [Chocolatey](http://chocolatey.org/), an application packaging system based on Nuget which runs in PowerShell

  Old (but good) Scripting Guys post: [Import INI files](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/08/20/use-powershell-to-work-with-any-ini-file.aspx)

Tips

  V3: [Be careful of the magic members and the way they unroll](https://plus.google.com/106423422372421380780/posts/EPEvo21AVJk) 🙂

  [Don Jones says, quit using write-host](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/donjones/archive/2012/04/06/2012-scripting-games-commentary-stop-using-write-host.aspx)! (Or puppies will die!)