Tag Archives: Scripting

Worklog – Wednesday, Feb 25

Service restarts on some hosts. Looked into automating some periodic restarts. One app vendor suggests using SQL Agent. I don’t really like the idea of using SQL Agent for non-database tasks. Found an interesting exercise in CMD batch file writing in a Microsoft script to restart IIS services. Powershell is another possibility. Problems with SharePoint [...]

Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming

brian d foy has an article up at O’Reilly with some good tools and tips for better Perl programming. As teasers for his forth-coming Mastering Perl, he mentions some useful tools, like Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic, and well as some other modules and approaches to make Perl code more useful and reusable.