At Readify we love MSH (or as Scott Hanselman refers to it “mush”). Now – thats not strictly true, when I told the developer folk at Readify that I wanted to do a presentation at TechEd 2005 on the upcoming Microsoft Command Shell they suggested that I would be the only one in the room and they started referring to me as Monad Mitch.
Now that Readify has an infrastructure practice I don’t feel quite so alone because the infrastructure guys seem to get the whole scripting thing. Thats why we have decided to launch the scripts site:
http://scripts.readify.net
We are going to use this site to publish useful scripts that we write (and if we can, the ones we find). We really want it to become a community resource so feel free to check out the Scripts, Links and FAQ pages and make any suggestions (via the forms provided). You can also hook up to the RSS feed so you know when it has been updated (the feeds actually contain the content which is cool).
Site Implementation Details
Implemented using ASP.NET 2.0 (duh!). I actually used the soon to be released Web Application Project and rather than using the database to store the data we actually use SharePoint as a backend store. The advantage of doing this is that we don’t have to write an administration interface and we can leverage a tool that everyone in the organisation is already familiar with.
While the data access was possibly a little bit more involved, it really saved time on the administration front. Time actual for development would have been around three or four hours, but time elapsed was probably more like three weeks since it was done in spare time.