Why I’m a Scripting Junkie
One of my more famous quotes from a previous job was “oh yea, I’ve got a script that does that…”. Most of my co-workers know that if it can be scripted, I’ll do it. Perhaps the recent post over on the PowerShell blog, Philosophy of Automation, explains why I’m such a script junkie.
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
I’ve been playing with PowerShell quite a bit lately as you noticed from my base64 copy/paste one-liner. I’ve also been playing with it’s integration with .NET and COM objects (read: IE Browser Automation!) and am fairly impressed. There’s a _lot_ that can be done with PowerShell.
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Nice post. I checked out that post on the powershell blog. It’s great to hear someone talk about being a “script junky” in such a positive tense.
By claudijdon 12.28.06 10:51 am
great quote! very true.
By dennydeatonon 01.07.07 9:35 am
I suppose this also explains that whenever I walk into a server room, I immediately feel the need to automate whatever it is that they are doing. It doesn’t really matter, but they all have to be doing similar things and there is definitely the opportunity to automate it….SOMEHOW!
By Damonon 01.08.07 12:49 am
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