Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language
News Microsoft's support for Python could help the software giant attract Unix developers to the Windows platform, as it is a commonly used scripting language on the Unix platform, according to Salim Fadhley, who develops Python programs for Unix.
[January 4, 2006, 13:05]
Using Jython Scripting Language With WSADMIN
White Papers The intent of this paper is to introduce the reader to the use of Jython as a scripting language to be used with the wsadmin function of WebSphere Application Server. WebSphere supports both the JACL language and the Jython language for scripting...
[July 11, 2008, 3:46]
intelligent FTP Client
Downloads iFTP is a WIN32 FTP client with a powerful and enhanced scripting language that offers an easy to use command set to create automated, robust and reliable FTP scripting operations. The language offers conditional processing, including RAS dialer in...
[January 11, 2001, 7:00]
Researcher kicks off 'Month of PHP Bugs'
News A security researcher has kicked off a project to put the spotlight on flaws in the widely used PHP scripting language. PHP, which originally stood for Personal Home Page, is a popular scripting language used to create dynamic web pages.
[March 5, 2007, 8:31]
Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform: Find Out Why .NET Programmers May Want to Learn and Use Ruby, and Discover the Core Syntax of the Language
White Papers The Ruby programming language is a modern, object-oriented scripting language, with a syntax inspired by languages such as Perl and Smalltalk. For several years, Ruby existed as a little-known scripting language that excelled in the tasks for which...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
PHP tools come to the UK
News PHP, a server-side scripting language that supports applications in Web pages, is now the leading Web scripting language, according to Wick Hill. The company is now distributing commercial tools from Zend for UK developers working with the language.
[September 12, 2002, 8:34]
Yahoo! shifts to open-source scripting
News has decided to jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favour of the open-source alternative PHP. But as the cost and effort of maintaining the proprietary scripting language rose, and as the quality of the open-source alternative...
[October 31, 2002, 7:53]
PHP flaw threatens Web servers
News A flaw found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language could allow attackers to crash, and in some cases control, computers over the Internet, an open-source developer group announced on Monday.
[July 23, 2002, 9:31]
Scripting flaw leaves sites vulnerable
News A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well as other Web servers.
[February 28, 2002, 9:48]
ColdFusion 8 Developer Security Guidelines
White Papers Adobe ColdFusion is a scripting language for creating dynamic Internet applications. It uses ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), an XML tag - based scripting language, to connect to data providers, authentication systems, and other services.
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
Nuclear Vision
Downloads Nuclear Vision is the powerful scripting language that revolutionizes the way you work. It is the only 100% HTML-style scripting language that is easy to learn and easy to use. Other users have converted entire websites from ColdFusion (a similar...
[December 26, 2003, 16:23]
PHP virus sparks debate
News Antivirus company Central Command says that a new strain of viruses written in the popular scripting language PHP could be on the way, although other antivirus experts believe the danger is limited. Central Command last week found a "proof of...
[January 8, 2001, 10:10]
Zend sharpens PHP's enterprise focus
News The company's founders are the creators of PHP, a scripting language that is designed to allow rapid construction of Web applications. Zend's business model is to give away an open source scripting engine, the software required to run PHP...
[January 10, 2005, 17:40]
All Windows systems vulnerable to Jscript flaw
News Jscript, the Microsoft object-oriented version of the JavaScript (aka ECMAScript) scripting language, is an interpreted language, so it can run only in the presence of Active Server Pages, IE, or Windows Script Host.
[March 31, 2003, 13:40]
W3C's latest standard: Scripting's swansong?
News Without the DOM, authors would have to code separately for each scripting language to interact with each different browser. From the accessibility perspective, if everything is buried in a scripting language, then it's hard to find an alternative...
[January 10, 2003, 10:53]
Metropolis
Downloads Metropolis is website management software that runs rings around similar products like CityDesk, by being between a few hundred and several thousand times faster, and, thanks to its inbuilt scripting language "MetroScript", infinitely more powerful.
[October 8, 2005, 8:00]
Java update warms to scripting languages
News Walker-Morgan explained that until now, Java developers have had to rely on "language specific" scripting tricks to bind a script language with Java, or use IBM's Bean Scripting Framework. Sun has released a Java development kit that seeks to meld...
[December 12, 2006, 16:22]
Scripting - the basics
News Each scripting language has a collection of commands or keywords and a set of rules on how to use them. Once you learn the keywords and syntax, you can use a text editor to write the script and then save it with a file extension that is appropriate...
[March 11, 2003, 9:18]
Sun builds on JavaFX Script
News It's a scripting language designed for creating dynamic user experiences, for creating graphical user interfaces [GUIs] with really rich interaction and dynamic behaviour and lots of artwork. One is a scripting language called JavaFX Script.
[May 14, 2007, 13:43]
A Peek into the JavaOne 2009 Classrooms
Blog Basically, as with any piece of software or hardware, choosing a suitable Scripting Language depends upon the technical and business requirements; moreover, in this session, five major Scripting Language gurus battled it out.
[June 4, 2009, 14:03]



