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Wicked Cool Perl Scripts 239

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 28, 2006 @03:34PM from the super-awesome-programming dept.

Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the popular programming languages now in use, Perl is perhaps the best suited for writing utilities — for several reasons, such as its text-processing capabilities, ease of addressing system resources, and minimal language overhead for input, output, list processing. It was designed to blend the rapid solution development of shell scripting with the powerful control constructs of third-generation languages. Consequently, Perl quickly became a favorite language for developing programs ranging from system administration utilities to CGI scripts that power Web sites. In fact, Perl has been called the glue that holds the Internet together. The tremendous flexibility and power of Perl is seen in Steve Oualline's book Wicked Cool Perl Scripts: Useful Perl Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems." Read the rest of Michael's review

Nice Performance Tuning For UNIX 206

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @11:13AM from the never-nice-enough dept.

Professor writes "Be 'nice' to your computers and examine some general guidelines for tuning server performance. A computer is like an employee who does tasks for you -- it's a good idea to keep from overburdening them. Keep this from happening by using the UNIX 'nice' command."

Joomla's Project Director Talks 1.1 96

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 28, 2006 @10:52AM from the fast-times-at-joomla-high dept.

daria42 writes "It's been a hectic six months for the Joomla open-source CMS since its split from the Mambo project, but according to this interview with project director Andrew Eddie there are even faster times ahead. Next week Joomla will make its formal debut at LinuxWorld Expo in Boston, with the milestone Joomla 1.1 release due towards the end of April. As Mambo and Joomla continue to diverge, Eddie says, users and developers will be forced to declare their colours and pick one or the other for production sites."

Comment Re:Sunlight? Heard about it (Score 2, Funny) 269

by dna42 on Thursday December 02, 2004 @06:09PM (#10979413) Attached to: Digital Clock Without Electricity or Moving Parts

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

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