I nearly fear that when I unveil here that I’m familiar with DOS Batch Programming and already worked with computers when Windows wasn’t even invented, you might think about me as some alien or dinosaur.

Nevertheless today I was force to automate some application and data tweaking to prevent me sitting over an "application push" all night. Hey! It’s friday and I also own my weekend …. Why do customers always think it is usual for a service provider to work 24×7 being ready to tweak their stuff while they are in bed?

Anyway, preparing such an automatic application push or upgrade, there are a lot of things to consider. Failure tolerance, getting process and procedures "restartable", an easy, completed and comprehensive logging or tracking giving me later on the ability to analyze situation if necessary.

You see, there are a lot of things to take care about. But nonetheless, whenever I do, I recognise that I enjoy it.
And … at the end it is amazing to see what all you can do with such a basic and aged script language like DOS Batch.