I have a bunch of Bash scripts that help me keep my files organized. They’re useful enough that I keep using them, although running everything through the terminal gets cumbersome. I have to keep ...

Some IT professionals who use PowerShell regularly might think they know everything about the scripting language, but they'd be wrong. PowerShell has many undocumented or lesser-known features. You ...

Google Home’s web script editor is getting a new “Help me script” feature. The generative AI feature creates all the code for you from scratch when you tell it what routine you want. It’s currently ...

Now, anyone can prompt an AI model to construct complex computational pipelines that would otherwise require days or weeks of ...

Office Scripts in Excel offer a structured way to automate repetitive tasks, making it easier to manage large datasets or streamline workflows. Built into the “Automate” tab of Excel’s ribbon, this ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

An automated script is a code snippet that executes repetitive or complex tasks, such as provisioning infrastructure, managing security vulnerabilities, setting up data pipelines and testing software, ...

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's "permanent record." If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C ...

Anaconda has released PyScript.com, a free coding platform for creating web applications with data interactivity and computation based on Python. The platform is now generally available for free as a ...

When I was little, I loved fireworks. Since childhood, the Fourth of July has always been my favorite holiday. And so as a kid, I saved money from Christmas until July to get some cool things that go ...