A handful of useful productivity tools wrapped up in a simple shell script.

A Linux developer has released a compact Bash script, 'prod', that integrates note-taking, task management, scheduling, a pomodoro timer, and an address book into under 300 lines of code. Written ...

If you are building PowerShell longer than a few lines, it is good practice to break up your code into reusable snippets. This way you can only call the code snippet over and over instead of ...

PowerShell modules help IT professionals and business owners organize multiple scripts into a single, reusable package, making code easier to manage, share and maintain. While individual scripts work ...

Are all of the default PowerShell cmdlets exactly the way you like them to be? Do they have all of the parameters you think should be standard and have no extras? Probably not. We all have our quirks ...

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

Use semantic versioning (X.Y.Z) so version numbers are meaningful, not arbitrary. Patch updates should fix bugs or improve logic/performance without changing visible behavior. Minor and major updates ...

Windows PowerShell has evolved into a command-line utility essential for system administrators and advanced users. The tool provides an intuitive interface to automate and manage various Windows tasks ...

When working with Active Directory groups, a common requirement is to enumerate all members of several different groups. This is done to typically figure out what kind of permissions each user in that ...