Back in the day when experimenting with web applications, I created a basic perl script which ran as part of a nightly cron job and; compressed certain files/directories utilised mysqldump utilty sftp ...

Do you remember the cassettes that you could buy from the back of 8-bit magazines that offered a number of useful tools to aid coding? From seedly looking ads such as this (taken from Your Computer, ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...

Linux, known for its robustness and flexibility, has been a favorite among developers, system administrators, and technology enthusiasts. One of the pillars of Linux's capabilities is its inherent ...

I have been assigned a small project that requires a Perl front end via CGI and a MySQL back end with a simple database. The database has basic names, addresses, and some flags to tell whether someone ...

Vincent Danen goes over some basic regular expressions. They are handy for developers and programmers, of course, and can even be employed for Google searching. As a Linux user or administrator, the ...