PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

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I just released BiteScript 0.0.2, which mainly fixes some issues defining packages and non-public classes. BiteScript is basically just a simple DSL for generating JVM bytecode. I use it in Duby and ...

Bitcoin offered the first smart contract programming language the world had ever seen. Script, as this language is called, lets users encode different conditions under which coins can be spent. But ...