If your business involves rendering 3D drawings or sketches of objects such as buildings or floor plans, you might know about Google SketchUp. SketchUp allows you to model 3D objects or import models ...

Are you spending valuable time on work a well-trained monkey could do? If so, Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts will teach you how to automate repetitive tasks using Ruby, one of the most powerful and ...

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In the world of programming languages, sometimes you don’t need the overhead and performance of Java, C#, C++ and other power tools. Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of ...

Everybody in modern IT operations should know how to write scripts. If you're a scripting beginner, make it a priority for the next step of your career. The Ruby language is easy to use for IT ...

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Seems I run into another weird-ass limitation on this server every day. You might remember I had trouble earlier executing anything at all. I fixed that. Then I had trouble writing to a directory for ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

Popular scripting language Ruby is branching out into embedded applications, with an Mruby version of the language. But the main Ruby variant is viewed by its founder as needing only minor ...