{"id":51103,"date":"2010-03-04T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2010\/03\/04\/the-best-thing-to-happen-to-weekends-in-a-long-time\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:16:00","slug":"the-best-thing-to-happen-to-weekends-in-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/the-best-thing-to-happen-to-weekends-in-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The best thing to happen to weekends in a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><a class=\"addthis_button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=scriptingguys\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font size=\"3\">Are you a hardcore scripting person who is addicted to Windows PowerShell? Do you find yourself waking up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and rushing to your computer to read the latest antics of the Microsoft Scripting Guys? Do you live on the other side of the world from Redmond, Washington, or Charlotte, North Carolina, and therefore feel deprived because there is not a fresh Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog post waiting for you on Monday morning? Do you find yourself bored on the weekend with nothing to do? <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">If you answered yes to any of the above questions (or even to questions we did not ask&#8211;hey, we&#8217;re easy), you need to check out what thousands of other scripters and wannabe scripters have already discovered: The TechNet Script Center&rsquo;s <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/heyscriptingguy\/archive\/tags\/Weekend+Scripter\/default.aspx\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">Weekend Scripter series<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\"><font size=\"3\">. That&rsquo;s right, TechNet&rsquo;s #1 blog is now available 7 days a week. And as far as we can tell, the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog is the only Microsoft blog that is published 7 days a week. Sweet.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">To help you quickly catch up with what you have been missing, we have created a <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/heyscriptingguy\/archive\/tags\/Weekend+Scripter\/default.aspx\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">handy search tag<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\"><font size=\"3\">. In the few short weeks we have been running the Weekend Scripter series, we have covered migrating a collection of functions into a complete Windows PowerShell module as well as creating graphical interfaces for Windows PowerShell scripts. <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">Early returns have been extremely positive. Come see what you have been missing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><b><span>Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer, Scripting Guys<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Are you a hardcore scripting person who is addicted to Windows PowerShell? Do you find yourself waking up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and rushing to your computer to read the latest antics of the Microsoft Scripting Guys? Do you live on the other side of the world from Redmond, Washington, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,61],"class_list":["post-51103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-scripting-guy","tag-weekend-scripter"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Are you a hardcore scripting person who is addicted to Windows PowerShell? Do you find yourself waking up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and rushing to your computer to read the latest antics of the Microsoft Scripting Guys? 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