Developers at Blockstream Research think they’ve found a way to make coding Bitcoin easier. Miniscript, a smart contract language designed by Peter Wuille, Andrew Poelstra and Sanket Sanjalkar of ...

Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm's way by using Microsoft's Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection. If you’ve been ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

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 ...

I stink when it comes to shell scripting/coding type of items. Have any of you ever used Partition Magic Pro 7.0's "script builder"? I made a script, and it half-way does what I want it to do. I want ...

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 ...

When I was little, I loved fireworks. Since childhood, the Fourth of July has always been my favorite holiday. And so as a kid, I saved money from Christmas until July to get some cool things that go ...