Systems administrators have been building Apache servers from source for decades. For most of them, the routine is the same — download a compressed tar file, extract its contents and run through the ...

Build scripts are finally being treated as first-class development citizens, thanks to tools like psake, FAKE, and Rake + Albacore. Ian Davis explores the Ruby-based, open source Albacore DSL. Borne ...

PowerShell is a scripting language and task automation framework that was released by Microsoft in late 2006. If you haven't run into or used PowerShell yet, you are missing out on a lot of power, ...

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An automated nightly build is a process for building an application every night using an infrastructure that automatically executes the required steps at the scheduled time, without any human ...

In the quest for writing better code in PowerShell, we have a great tool that can help you to write better code by pointing out areas that can be improved to better match a 'best practices' approach.

I must admit that I don't really follow basketball. But, I do like to engage with folks at work, and every spring I've always felt a little left out when my work colleagues fill out their NCAA March ...

Let’s suppose you have arrived at a new job site or landed a new contract. You may be a bit nervous, but not too much so; you have a reasonable level of confidence in your Java development skills. The ...

Dear Final Debug: I’m building a site for a large company that will rely heavily on scripting, both server-side and client-side. That is if it does what I promised my boss it’s going to do. Anyway, ...