{"id":9021,"date":"2006-12-27T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2006\/12\/27\/resolve-to-blog-your-automation\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:21:00","slug":"resolve-to-blog-your-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/resolve-to-blog-your-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolve to blog your automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my entry <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2006\/12\/25\/philosophy-of-automation.aspx\">Philosophy of Automation<\/a>, Tim Long <a href=\"http:\/\/community.tigranetworks.co.uk\/blogs\/tim_long\/archive\/2006\/12\/27\/huge-advances-come-from-the-accumulation-of-small-deltas-or-why-you-should-blog.aspx\">blogged a response<\/a> where he advanced the idea that people should make a New Year&#8217;s Resolution to start a blog (if you have already).&nbsp; That is a great idea.&nbsp; I would follow on and further encourage you to set up a system to remind yourself at least once a week to make a blog entry (preferrable about something you automated with PowerShell \ud83d\ude42 ).&nbsp; Here is the concept: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Once you write&nbsp;your first 30 blog entries, the next 300&nbsp;will come easily.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With that concept in focus, figure out how you are going to get your first 30 blog entries written.&nbsp; Treat it as a project.&nbsp; You know yourself, what works when you are trying to get a project off the ground.&nbsp; Maybe you want to have a weekly reminder in Outlook,&nbsp; maybe you want to put a postit note on your monitor, maybe you should keep a list or folder with ideas of things you should get around to blogging about.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t think that you have to write a piece of literature here. This ain&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra\">Thus Spoke Zarathustra<\/a>, it&#8217;s a blog.&nbsp; Blogging automation is super easy.&nbsp; You take your script and PASTE it.&nbsp; Then add a couple sentences about how you use it.&nbsp; Make sure you use the work POWERSHELL so that it is searchable.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the great suggestion TIm!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Cheers.<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my entry Philosophy of Automation, Tim Long blogged a response where he advanced the idea that people should make a New Year&#8217;s Resolution to start a blog (if you have already).&nbsp; That is a great idea.&nbsp; I would follow on and further encourage you to set up a system to remind yourself [&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-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In response to my entry Philosophy of Automation, Tim Long blogged a response where he advanced the idea that people should make a New Year&#8217;s Resolution to start a blog (if you have already).&nbsp; That is a great idea.&nbsp; I would follow on and further encourage you to set up a system to remind yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","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=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/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=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}