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 ...

Most of us, by now, should have heard of the programming language known as JavaScript. It is quite popular and is mostly used to develop websites. If your web browser doesn’t support JavaScript or an ...

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 ...

Scripting is now considered real programming, and indeed most people don’t even use the word “scripting” when describing what they do, but instead call it “programming.” These days, it boils down to ...

Scripting languages are becoming more popular 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 ...

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 called ...