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Scott McMahan is a software developer who specializes in web and database programming, system design and architecture, and developing software tools. He works with Linux, UNIX, and IBM mainframes; and programs in a variety of languages including C, Perl, Java, and PHP. He has been involved with computers since 1984, and been a software developer since 1993. Scott can be contacted by e-mail

Automating Windows With Perl (1998)

A critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful book, ahead of its time, which discussed using Perl as a "glue" language to automate Windows system administration and tasks. Included code for a portable cron daemon which is now an open source project (cronw.sourceforge.net). Also included early chapter on using OLE Automation with Perl.

This book was about five years ahead of its time, and what I wanted to do with this technology wasn't quite possible yet. With the adoption of the .NET CLR runtime, and the targeting of languages like Perl and Python to the CLR, seamless integration with COM servers became trivially easy.

I began to concentrate on UNIX and mainframe development actually while the book was being written, and never returned to the Windows world to update it.