You can feel it the second a meeting wobbles: cameras off, vague goals, fifteen minutes gone to status theater. Meanwhile, the real work sits in another tab. The fix is not another framework. It is a ...

I use simple bash scripts to automate the boring stuff in Linux. Here's what they are and how they work.

“Unlike Easy Script 1.0 which could only rewrite a screenplay enough to receive co-writing credit and save the studio money on screenwriters’ production bonuses, Easy Script 2.0 can write a completely ...

IT administrators are under pressure to do more with less: less time, fewer resources and never enough money. Automating steps for servers and application deployments can lift some repetitive tasks ...

The ability to automate tasks in Excel for the web has been a long wait—but it’s finally here, and it was worth the wait. One thing users have clamored for is web apps that support code (macros or ...

Last month, we looked at how to convert an HTML form on a page into a shell script with command flags and variables that let you have access to all the features of the search box. We tapped into Yahoo ...

In computer programming, a script is a program or sequence of instructions that another program interprets or carries rather than the computer processor doing it (as with a compiled program).