{"id":9191,"date":"2006-12-01T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2006\/12\/01\/powershell-scripting-contest-2-weeks-left\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:21:06","slug":"powershell-scripting-contest-2-weeks-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/powershell-scripting-contest-2-weeks-left\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerShell Scripting Contest &#8211; 2 weeks left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You still have an opportunity to step into the winners circle by submitting your PowerShell Scripts to our Scripting contest.&nbsp; Your entry&nbsp;has to submitted by Dec 15, 2006 to be eligible to win.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>We all techies so let&#8217;s do the math &#8211; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We are giving&nbsp;lots of prizes<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li>First prize is a 3 day, 2 night trip to Redmond to meet the Windows PowerShell team <\/li>\n<li>12 Microsoft XBox 360 Core gaming systems<\/li>\n<li>36 copies of PowerGadgets (Drool Drool)<\/li>\n<li>36 copies of the book Windows PowerShell: TFM <\/li>\n<li>24 copeis of PrimalScript 4.1 for Windows PowerShell<\/li>\n<li>36 Windows PowerShell T-Shirts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<li>PowerShell just shipped so a ton of people are just starting to learn it<\/li>\n<li>Lots of people don&#8217;t enter contests<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>:&nbsp; If you submit a few scripts, you stand a good chance of winning (no promises but you do the math \ud83d\ude42 ).&nbsp;&nbsp; If you can pipe GET-PROCESS to WHERE {$_.HANDLES -GE 500}, you should be submitting your scripts (ok&nbsp;so you probably won&#8217;t with with that one since I submitted it about 3 seconds after the contest started, but you get the idea).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out all the details here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/topics\/winpsh\/contest\/default.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/topics\/winpsh\/contest\/default.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If there is any difference between the data at that website and my blog entry &#8211; trust the website.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]<br \/>Windows PowerShell\/MMC Architect<br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a><br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&nbsp; 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