Although many Linux developers are only now discovering the combination of a scripting language and a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, this sort of development environment is not new. The ...

Increases in processor speed and memory sizes are making it possibleto incorporate scripting in embedded systems themselves. This offersthe potential of reducing deployment costs and allowing a new ...

All script writers need to deal with textual data at one time or another. One of the most powerful tools for manipulating text in the free software world is the text widget found in the Tk graphical ...

Any viable company has to react quickly to gain or regain an edge over its competitors. For companies that rely on their Websites to generate revenue, this means frequent changes to those Websites.

The following is a guest post written by Jeff Hobbs (pictured), director of engineering for a company called ActiveState. ActiveState offers developer tools for writing, managing and distributing ...

Ron Simonson, a product engineer at Analog Devices' (www.analog.com) Design Center in Beaverton, OR, often had to make the same types of measurements for different tests. Rather than spend time with ...

Tcl (Tool Command Language) and its GUI sidekick Tk (Toolkit) have been available in one form or another for more than a decade. John Ousterhout originally designed Tcl as a freely available embedded ...