{"id":21,"date":"2005-08-12T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-08T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:35:55","slug":"scripting-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"<fx=barbie voice>Scripting is hard<\/fx>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to quote for you now the opening lines of Microsoft&#8217;s <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/guide\/sas_roa_overview.mspx\">Scripting Concepts and Technologies for System Administration.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a book about scripting for system administrators. If you are<br \/>\nlike many system administrators, you might be wondering why this book<br \/>\nis targeted towards you. After all, scripting is not the sort of thing<br \/>\nsystem administrators do. Everyone knows about scripting: scripting is<br \/>\nhard; scripting is time-consuming; scripting requires you to learn all<br \/>\nsorts of technical jargon and master a whole host of acronyms &#8211; WSH,<br \/>\nWMI, ADSI, CDO, ADO, COM. System administrators have neither the time<br \/>\nnor the requisite background to become script writers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ye flippin&#8217; gods. Do Microsoft Administrators really think like that?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to quote for you now the opening lines of Microsoft&#8217;s Scripting Concepts and Technologies for System Administration. This is a book about scripting for system administrators. If you are like many system administrators, you might be wondering why this book is targeted towards you. After all, scripting is not the sort of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><fx=barbie voice>Scripting is hard<\/fx><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}