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 ...

When you are writing scripts or modifying existing scripts, the WAITFOR and TYPE statements require special attention to detail. To ensure that the script recognizes the expected prompt for each stage ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...

Bash scripting is every Linux administrator’s Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results. Bash scripting remains a staple of my ...

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 ...

An automated script is a code snippet that executes repetitive or complex tasks, such as provisioning infrastructure, managing security vulnerabilities, setting up data pipelines and testing software, ...

This is the second in a three-part series on using AdWords Scripts. In the first part we covered how to read scripts. In part two, we go beyond the very basics and look at some of the issues that new ...