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Jan Egil's Event 4 Notes

Jan offers some perspective on Event 4 at http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/22/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-4/

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Scripting Games Event 3 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 3 of The Scripting Games 2013! Winners: You can log into The Scripting Games Web site and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the …

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Some Event 3 Notes

I didn’t see anyone (although I’ll admit I haven’t checked every entry) using my EnhancedHTML module from Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell. I am ensaddened. But man, Event 3 shows that you can really do well by learning a wee bit of HTML. Knowing an H2 and HR tag makes for much …

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Your Weekend Games Report

It’s been a crazy-busy week for me, so I’m just getting caught up here. I’m off observing the beta-teach of the new 10961A PowerShell 3 class in Phoenix next week, but I’ll be keeping an eye on the Games. So let’s run some numbers. The Games have 2092 users at present, …

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Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Olver Lipkau

I have been working for AtoS, formaly Siemens IT Solutions and Services, for 6 years as a IT Consultant. I was 15 when I started scripting. First only batch scripts to automate simple things. With time the scriptt grew in complexity and languages. VBS, AutoIt, AHK and finally PowerShell, which …

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More Updates to the Scripting Games

I’ve been making some more programming changes to the Scripting Games, based on folks’ feedback. If you run into problems, please notify me via the Feedback Forums link at the bottom of every page on the site. Use the email address provided. Don’t post a comment here, because I …