An introduction to using Phing, a free automation tool, to streamline and automate performance optimization tasks in web development.
A guide to using tox, a Python testing tool, for multi-environment testing, documentation building, and dependency management.
A guide to creating simple Mac applications from shell scripts using the 'appify' tool and customizing their icons.
A developer automates game idea generation by creating a tool that randomly combines words to produce 50 creative, one-line game concepts.
An Emacs Lisp script and shell script that combats procrastination by nagging users after periods of inactivity.
A developer details the painful process of using AppleScript and GUI automation to work around Microsoft Entourage's limited scripting support for rules and folders.
A developer shares a free command-line C# tool to recursively download entire FTP folders, solving a common frustration.
