State of PowerShell for Sitecore for April 2012

While I’m updating it on a separate page I thought for the purpose of having a record and further tracking - it would be interesting to capture the state of the PowerShell knowledge in the Sitecore community here as well.

How do I get the PowerShell Console for Sitecore?

Download the Console installation package from its Sitecore Shared Source page.
Introductory documentation to PowerShell console on its Shared Source page.

Adam’s (101 level) blogs for PowerShell Console for Sitecore

So what PowerShell Console for Sitecore is and what can it do for me?
Sitecore PowerShell Console cheat sheet Part 1 & Part 2
Sample scripts for Sitecore PowerShell Console

How PowerShell console can help you extend Sitecore?

External Content helpful for Sitecore PowerShell Scripters

Free PowerShell EBooks
Sitecore Virtual User Group: An Introduction into PowerShell from a Sitecore .NET Developer

Alternative solutions

PowerShell console in Sitecore Rocks – part of the Sitecore Rocks extension to Visual Studio
psTerminal – not available yet (currently in development by Andrew Chumachenko of Sitecore UA) – introduced on Sitecore Virtual User Group Webinar.

The PowerShell co-nerds within Sitecore Community

Other people that did research in the field, adopted the console early and/or are knowledgeable in the subject:

Jakob Christensen - Sitecore - Sitecore Rocks author - has alternative Sitecore PowerShell console (@TheRocksGuy Sitecore.PowerShell - Rocks PowerShell commandlets
James Gardner - PS Console enthusiast - doing quite advanced stuff with the console (@iamdudley
- Powershell Console - editing fields that have never been populated
- PowerShell Console script examples for updating built in fields
Nick Wesselman - co-author of Sitecore EviBlog (@techphoria414 - PS proponent.
- Blog - Changing Item Templates With Sitecore PowerShell
- Forum - PowerShell error on Get-Item
Alex Shyba - Sitecore US - advanced stuff with PowerShell deployment (@alexshyba
- Installing Sitecore with PowerShell
Szymon Kuźniak - Cognifide - contributed commandlets to the console (@skuzniak)
- Sitecore Profile Cards: The Lazy Way
Marek Musielak ? Cognifide ? (@MarasM) great thanks to Marek for his help in integrating JQueryTerminal with the console)
Great thanks to Lars Nielsen? (@ln_sitecore) and Lars Birkholm Peters (?@larsbirkholm) for their support and encouragement for the project.

How can I contribute?

If you have any suggestions please email me: adam [at] najmanowicz.com or post within the Sitecore Shared Source Forum.