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.

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 ...

Scripting is a powerful and convenient way to provide programmability for instruments in test and measurement applications. Script-based instruments provide architectural flexibility, improved ...

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 ...