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I’ve decided to bring #PSBlogWeek back! Brush off those PowerShell blogs and grease up those typing fingers….wait..don’t do that but at least stretch a little bit. If you’d like to write a great article on PowerShell on your blog to help contribute great content and get yourself some notoriety, #PSBlogWeek is how it’s done.
For full details, head over to my blog where I’ve outlined everything or head directly over to psblogweek.com for full details!
Back by popular demand is the week-long coordination of blog posts on a single PowerShell topic known as #PSBlogWeek! This week, 5 hand-picked bloggers will be writing informative content around the topic of logging.
The daily schedule for this week is as follows:
Monday (Jason Wasser @wasserja) - Building Readable Text Log Files
Tuesay (Thom Schumacher @driberif) - Slicing and Dicing Text Log Files
Wednesday (Jaap Brasser @jaap_brasser) - PowerShell Logging in the Windows Event Log
Thursday (Adam Platt @platta) - Reading Events from Event Logs
Friday - (Adam Bertram @adbertram) - Building Logs for CMTrace
A big thanks to June Blender (@juneb_get_help) for her help in editing these posts.
If you’d like to download an eBook containing a nicely laid out compilation of all the content provided this week, head over to adamtheautomator.com to snag a copy. Feel free to share it wherever you’d like. Consider it public domain.
If you missed our last #PSBlogWeek, download the eBook to bone up on everything you need to know about PowerShell advanced functions.
I’m back from Techmentor Redmond 2015 which was my first public speaking talk ever. It went great. I met a ton of great people and really enjoyed myself. When speaking to IT pros one of the questions I typically ask them is “Are you blogging or sharing your knowledge?”. 9 times out of 10 I get a big, fat no. Why? It’s because they feel like they have nothing to share. They feel like no one would be interested in their ho-hum, mundane life as an IT guy. I always followup that comment with “How do you know?” which ultimately results in a shrug. You don’t know that your life isn’t interesting and can teach others something. Why are you making the decision for others? You’ve acquired lots of knowledge in your career. Don’t be stingy! Share it!
As a personal challenge to you, I have a copy of Don Jones’ and Jeff Hicks’ Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches book. If you don’t have a blog today, start one. If you do and haven’t blogged in awhile, dust it off and start writing again. The first one to contact me on my blog Adam, The Automator with a link to their blog with at least 5 good posts will win the book. Don’t try to sneak those piddly little one paragraph posts by me just to get a free book! Minimum post length is 500 words.
You have nothing to lose but perhaps a few hours of your time and some further opportunities in your career. Give back and you will be rewarded.
P.S. Did you know I used to blog about selling used books on Amazon? Talk about a niche topic. At it’s peak it was getting over 1,000 readers/day. Now, don’t you think IT is just a wee bit bigger than that? If I can blog about selling used books and get 1,000 readers/day you can spend just an hour a week writing a blog post about your IT experiences and you will help more people than you think.
We all love PowerShell and we all probably have some very entertaining stories about a situation where it really saved our butts (or caused problems). Either way, we can all tell some kind of interesting story around a memorable moment you had with PowerShell or automation in general. I’d love to hear about them.
I’m looking for a short story anywhere from a few paragraphs to an entire article if you want. The more detail the better. What kind of situation were you in? Were you under a deadline and PowerShell saved the day? Did automation backfire in your face and you blew up your whole datacenter? I want to know about it!
