{"id":8951,"date":"2006-12-31T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2006\/12\/31\/sad-state-of-blogging-software\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:20:58","slug":"sad-state-of-blogging-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/sad-state-of-blogging-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad State of Blogging Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of blogging software is pretty sad.&nbsp; I must be a harder problem than I can&nbsp;imagine (of course there are other&nbsp;explainations but I&#8217;ll be gracious and go with that one for now.) <\/p>\n<p>I started a entry, got distracted and&nbsp;posted another blog entry.&nbsp; The next day, I came to my computer and noticed that I hadn&#8217;t finished my original post so I finished it and posted it.&nbsp; The blogging software then posted my entry BEFORE the previous one.&nbsp; Apparently&nbsp;the software&nbsp;uses the datetime that you STARTED the entry (not the&nbsp;datetime you&nbsp;SUBMITTED)&nbsp;for ordering purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a result, a number of people come to the blog, see the &#8220;last entry&#8221; has not changed and then don&#8217;t go reading through the rest of the entries to see if something new was inserted.&nbsp; Silly readers.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; apologizes for that boof-a-rama.&nbsp; There is a post that I think is really worth reading at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2006\/12\/29\/use-copy-property-to-make-it-easier-to-write-read-and-review-scripts.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2006\/12\/29\/use-copy-property-to-make-it-easier-to-write-read-and-review-scripts.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/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; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of blogging software is pretty sad.&nbsp; I must be a harder problem than I can&nbsp;imagine (of course there are other&nbsp;explainations but I&#8217;ll be gracious and go with that one for now.) I started a entry, got distracted and&nbsp;posted another blog entry.&nbsp; The next day, I came to my computer and noticed that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The state of blogging software is pretty sad.&nbsp; I must be a harder problem than I can&nbsp;imagine (of course there are other&nbsp;explainations but I&#8217;ll be gracious and go with that one for now.) I started a entry, got distracted and&nbsp;posted another blog entry.&nbsp; The next day, I came to my computer and noticed that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}