Jeff Friesen’s Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional is out now from Apress. In this article Jeff introduces you to his new book by presenting excerpts from its chapter on the Java ...

For some reason, I’m often asked this question: is scripting programming or just systems administration? Oddly enough, we briefly addressed this within the firstPowerShell Unleashed book. But, because ...

Passing arguments, writing a help menu, and debugging can be burdensome. However, the getopts command, Heredoc, and the "set ...

Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you. So, ...

If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

I often see this term get tossed around like salad such as "Im running a SCRIPT to do this.. that..". What does this term really mean? Could someone please give me a definition of what this is? Whats ...

So my programming skills are rudimentary at best. I have a basic but somewhat rusty (it's been about 3 years) working knowledge of C and C++.<BR><BR>I'm doing some work that I would like to automate ...