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 ...

Some Java applications’ requirements make integration with a scripting language necessary. For example, your users may need to write scripts that drive the application, extend it, or contain loops and ...

All scripts start with a shebang ( #!/bin/bash ). You can make notes in your scripts by putting a # in front of an ...

This is part 3 of the article "Adding AngelScript to an Existing Game". In this series, I've been adding AngelScript to the XACTGame sample that can be found in the DirectX SDK. I hope to explain many ...

Wondering what the big Apps news was at Google I/O yesterday? Google announced it is testing a new scripting feature for Apps that will let enterprises not only automate certain tasks but also better ...

Today, Google premiered its approach to user-designed extensibility for its online Apps suite, and so far it's exactly what you might expect from Google: Its Apps Script language doesn't reinvent the ...

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 ...

At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar that gives an idea ...

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become the ...