2018 Community Lightning Demos

Rambling

Last year’s PowerShell + Devops Global Summit was a roller coaster.
On one hand, I spoke for the first time - it was terrifying. Getting up in front of a local user group had helped, but it’s not quite the same as a room full of PowerShell-ers, including MVPs and PowerShell team members - eek!
On the other hand, I was lucky enough to host the Community Lightning Demos. We managed to give 22 folks the chance to get up in front of the PowerShell community and give a quick, low-pressure ~10 minute demo.

Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel: Puzzle 3 – a commentary

My notes and commentary on puzzle 3 - working with a web feed - are now available: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 3 - A commentary
As with previous commentaries I’ve not presented the faction specific solutions - view the forums and Slack channel to see what your faction and maybe more importantly what other factions have done.
Puzzle 4 will be available around the time you read this.
Enjoy

Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 4

You’re a quarter of the way to Iron Scripter. In this challenge - Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 4 -  you’ll be asked to find a way to make legacy command line tools work with the PowerShell pipeline .
In all things remember the goal of your faction.
Please remember that we’re not grading submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forum.
If anyone is really stuck or doesn’t understand something in the puzzle leave a comment here and I’ll try to answer. No guarantees on timeframe though.
Good luck

Summit 2018 registration status

The speed at which places at Summit are being purchased has been amazing. We’re down to our LAST 25 places.
At present rates I expect those to be gone by this time next week.
If you want a place at Summit 2018 - BUY NOW.
If you know of anyone who wants a place at Summit 2018 - tell them to BUY NOW
Last year we managed to add about 30 places after selling our initial number. We’ll NOT be able to do that this year. We’re getting much better at working out how many places are, and can be, available.
This is the LAST CALL for registrations for Summit 2018.

Help us Recognize Amazing PowerShell Contributors!

First: Please share this as widely as possible in your social media channels, so we can get the most number of suggestions possible!
We’re working with the PowerShell team at Microsoft to identify individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the PowerShell community. Perhaps they’ve written blog posts that really helped you conquer a PowerShell challenge, or maybe they’ve contributed code (on GitHub or elsewhere) that you rely on. Maybe they’re an amazing teacher, or perhaps they’re an awesome coder. Whatever their contribution, if it’s been notable and helpful to you, we’d like to hear from you.

Distilling Microsoft's DSC Update (Jan 2018)

This past Friday, Microsoft posted a DSC Update that’s worth your attention - and some commentary.

PowerShell Story Continued Becoming a Craftsman

My journey started off by figuring out how to automate a daily disk space report on the mailserver, which ran most of the company, and emailing the report to my boss at the time. After PowerShell sent that first email, something clicked. I sat back in my chair and thought to myself, “Wow, I don’t have to do this anymore”. I can still feel how exciting and relieving that thought was. Fast forward a few years and I had made automation about 80% of my job. I had moved into a few new roles - Tier 2 Support to Systems Engineer, to Senior Systems Engineer. My last post left off when I left my role as a Senior Systems Engineer and landed a gig as a DevOps Engineer. At the time I thought this was the end of the road. I thought, “I’ll pick up a few new tricks and further improve my PowerShell skills”. I couldn’t have been more wrong. This post picks up at the beginning of my transition into the world of DevOps, where I learned no matter how much you know, you know nothing. Continue reading to hear the rest of the story…
http://duffney.io/PowerShell-Story-Continued-BecomingACraftsman

Iron Scripter Prequel: Puzzle 2 – a commentary

A discussion and possible solution to puzzle 1 is now available at  Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 2 - A commentary
Remember this isn’t presented as a definitive solution. It’s my view of the solution.
I’ve not provided faction specific code but rather a list of points the factions need to consider to be truly worthy of their faction.

Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel: Puzzle 3

You have overcome 2 challenges so far both involving code from the archives. In this challenge you’ll be called upon to create your own code. You’ll be presented with a task to perform in Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 3
How you approach this challenge is up to you but remember the goals of your faction.
Please remember that we’re not grading submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forum
Good luck

Summit 2018 registration update

As an update to the registrations for Summit 2018 - we’ve sold 75% of the available places.
As Don explained we won’t be able to add further places like we did last year.
This is our biggest (and hopefully best) Summit yet with more sessions and nearly double the number of speakers.
If you want a place I recommend not waiting. Last year we sold our last place on 24 February. If sales carry on as they currently are we’ll sell out for 2018 well before then.