I'm a big fan of Evernote. I use it for archiving ideas, writing articles / blog posts and lots more. I often insert screenshots and other large images into my notes. Screenshots can be pretty big, ...

Ask embedded programmers what tools they use, and you'll usually find a common thread: C/C++, an integrated development environment (IDE) or their favorite editor/debugger, and a standard library or ...

Popular scripting language Ruby is branching out into embedded applications, with an Mruby version of the language. But the main Ruby variant is viewed by its founder as needing only minor ...

If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...

Programmable instruments, which allow creating and storing on-board programs for on-demand execution, have been available in some form for many years. Hardware and programming language improvements ...

Editor’s Note: David Wyban from Keithley Instruments explains how consumers’ demand for higher functionality makes embedded software necessary for next-generation test and measurement instrumentation.

Bare Bones has released an AppleScript that may be of major importance to some Web developers who depend on their text and HTML editor BBEdit. The script assists with the migration away from the use ...