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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:09 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 14

# Level 15 (1..99 |% {"1${_}6"} |? {[datetime]::IsleapYear($_)} |? {([datetime]"01/26/$_").dayofweek -eq 'Monday'} )[-2] Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:45 AM

PoSH Challenge Part 13

Again a level involving a bitmap, so if you follow this series code below should look kind a familiar by now See also : More fun with Bitmaps in Powershell ( PoSH Challenge part 10 ) # Level 14 [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName( " System.Drawing
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:57 PM

PowerShell and XMLRPC (PoSH Challenge part 12)

This level was another "Interesting" task, It could have been solved quick and easy ... was it not for one little problem .... Level 13 involved speaking to  PHP web service with XMLRPC, I search for PowerShell and XMLRPC got me here :
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Monday, January 28, 2008 5:04 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 11

For Level 12 more bitmaps but then mixed together and delivered as bytes :   # Level 12 $a = $b = $c = $d = $e = @() $ba = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes( " C:\PowerShell\PoshChallenge\evil2.gfx " ) foreach ( $byte in $ba ) { $a += $byte
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Monday, January 28, 2008 4:46 PM

More fun with Bitmaps in Powershell ( PoSH Challenge part 10 )

As I entered another level about bitmaps, I will reflect a bit more about the way of working with bitmaps in PowerShell instead of posting the solution only. ( if this info is to much of a spoiler for this level you cheated some levels anyway ;-) ) The
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Monday, January 21, 2008 7:29 PM

Posh Challenge Part 9

Level 10, This one was easy as I knew the answer to the sequence so could just look how to script it, still was a nice exercise , ( can you solve the Sequence's logic by only looking at the PowerShell script ? )   : you had to fill on this Sequence
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Monday, January 21, 2008 5:44 PM

PoSH Challenge part 8

And another update at the PoSH Challenge front, I'm arrived at Level 20 ,(had to cheat a bit at level 17 to arive there but more about that later ) so some more posts will follow ;-) I must say that the The Python Challenge . is really a great piece of
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:16 PM

PoSH Challenge part 7

This one was very challenging and got me puzzling for way to deep into the night morning last Friday, taking much more time as expected. The problem at hand at Level 8 did involve bzip2 , I started to find if there was a .NET library for this and found
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:40 PM

PoSH Challenge part 6

Level 7 is the first level in the the python challenge that involves working with bitmaps, before I give my answer to this level of the Python challenge I made a small PoSH version , * Reader Challenge * what text is hidden in the following picture ?
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Monday, January 14, 2008 5:00 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 5

For Level 6 I needed to get information from zip files not available from plain PowerShell, I decided to use a tool I had already handy 7Zip, that comes with a command line version (Instead of looking for a .NET DLL, you have to wait to level 8 for that
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Monday, January 14, 2008 4:23 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 4

I did another couple of Levels in the PoSH Challenge based on the python challenge and did a lot of fun things with PowerShell on the way, and some nice posts will follow in this series ;-) In this part I first will go on first with Level 5 from last
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Friday, January 11, 2008 10:05 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 3

I got stuck on Level 5 so I did a Google search : http://www.google.nl/search?hl=en&q=peak+hell+sounds+familiar&btnG=Google+Search&meta= again lucky the first entry got me going again without spoiling the rest, by naming the Python command
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Friday, January 11, 2008 7:49 PM

PoSH Challenge part 2 (Level 1-4 )

In former post PoSH Challenge part 1 I started this series, following the the python challenge site using PowerShell. Looks like I got Xaegr started : PowerShell Challenge ( Translated ) and Doug Finke got challenged : The Python (PowerShell?) Challenge
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:10 PM

PoSH Challenge part 1

I found this : the python challenge By michael Need a reason to play with Python? Try playing the 30+ levels of The Python Challenge . Solve the problem, move up to the next level. As a warming up for the : : The Winter Scripting Games I / you might have
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