In the era of cloud computing and mobility, businesses are demanding more agility from their IT organizations. Many silos within IT have responded to this demand. Virtualization has transformed server ...

Simplification of administration and its related overhead is a strategic imperative that most companies are mandating. Although programmatic automation has existed in the Windows and Linux operating ...

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 ...

CIO.com – The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also ...

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 ...

Computer understands the language of 0's and 1's called binary language. In early days of computing, instruction are provided using binary language, which is difficult for all of us, to read and write ...

Unity allows you to extend its interface by scripting your own custom windows, which will be draggable and re-sizable like the other windows in Unity (i.e. Project, Scene, Hierarchy, Inspector). I'm ...

Providing coverage of the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server, this book discusses in detail the different scripting API's and how they can be leveraged to provide useful, practical and ...