We like to do a lot with a little. That’s the attraction of scripting: it manages big, complicated computing systems — CORBA, for example — with simple, low-cost means. We affectionately call CORBA ...

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 ...

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...