Years ago, I was able to get employers to send me off for an occasional week-long class. They were usually Sun Ed classes in California and were almost always very good. In addition, getting away from ...

Until January of 2002, programmers wanting a book on Perl/Tk had one option: Learning Perl/Tk, by Nancy Walsh. Although well researched and accurate, it gave the reader only a basic familiarity with ...

I have been offered a position with my company's Unix team (yay! no more hell desk!). I won't be starting with them for a few months due to the fact I have to relocate myself and family to a different ...

I've installed Activeperl on my Windows 7 machine as well as an editor from DzSoft. I was under the impression that AS was all I needed, but I couldn't find a way to actually do anything from the ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...