APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

It can handle most HTML tags and anything that isn’t able to be converted to Markdown is passed through as HTML. The first phase of the process is parsing the input into a syntax tree. To parse a HTML ...

Parsing HTML and extracting useful bits of data is common job for web programmers. The only question is, how do you go about it? You could use Regular Expressions. On the surface of things, regular ...

Have you ever been given an application and instructed to run it on various computers and systems, only to realize that it wasn’t built for multiple hosts? After all, some apps are designed to be ...