Command Line Programming

The Linux command line is a powerful place to be, and that power is available to a Windows user as well. Now everyone can take complete control of their own computers.

Jun 30, 2009 - Mark Alexander Bain

These days there's no need for anyone to spend hours typing up those weekly reports. All they need is Microsoft Word and a PowerShell Script

Jun 5, 2009 - Mark Alexander Bain

The programmer of a PowerShell script always has a vital source of information - the user. The question is how to get that information from them.

Jun 2, 2009 - Mark Alexander Bain

The Windows script developer can choose between MS-DOS (or CMD), VBScript and now PowerShell. There are pros and cons for each of them, so which is best?

May 15, 2009 - Mark Alexander Bain

Microsoft Windows PowerShell Cmdlets are very powerful because of the way in which they use .NET objects. Using a script makes them versatile and efficient.

May 7, 2009 - Mark Alexander Bain

PowerShell is Microsoft's new shell language. It works with the .NET objects and is therefore much more powerful than MS-DOS or CMD, but much simpler than VBScript.

May 5, 2009 - Mark Alexander Bain

FTP (File Transport Protocol) has been around for a long time, but it's still as useful as it ever was - especially when it comes to automating processes with FTP macros.

Nov 11, 2008 - Mark Alexander Bain

This article looks at how to download on-line data such as Yahoo! Finance's stock quotes without the need of a web browser - all through the power of Wget.

Oct 21, 2008 - Mark Alexander Bain

A batch file provides an historical record when creating MySQL databases and the objects in them (tables, views and stored procedures)

Sep 26, 2008 - Mark Alexander Bain

Bash is the default shell for Linux and is very powerful. However, it lacks in-built mathematical functions - something that that the Korn shell does have.

Aug 28, 2008 - Mark Alexander Bain