Neal Ford, in his book “The Productive Programmer”, says
The very things that make casual users more productive can hamper power users
He adds
You can get more done at the command line for most development chores than you can through a graphical interface
He was on a project that required opening and updating several spreadsheets on a regular basis. He took a few minutes and wrote a Ruby script to do it.
Even though it didn’t take long to open the files by hand, the little time it took was still a waste of time, so I automated it
The PowerShell Version
Open-XLWB
DailyLogs
Result
For ISE
In the PowerShell Integrated Scripting environment you can launch DailyLogs from the command pane.
Note
Software development has lots of obvious automation targets: builds, continuous integration and documentation. There are less obvious but no less valuable ways to automate development chores
PowerShell is an automation platform, automation platform, automation platform (quote from Jeffrey Snover). Let the automating begin.
Downloads
Place the two scripts in a folder that is in your path.
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