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← Older posts Newer posts →Learning Regular Expressions for Beginners: The Basics
If you consider yourself a programmer and you have not learned regular expressions yet now is the time! At some point in your development you will need to manipulate strings in more complicated ways that simple string functions can’t provide. … Continue reading
Posted in Howto, Programming | 3 CommentsMastering the UPS Shipping API: Getting Started
This article is here to help you get a jump start on using the UPS Shipping API. This article is part 1 of the series that will help you get all the required tools to get you up and running. … Continue reading
Posted in Howto, Programming | Tagged API, UPS | 9 CommentsRetrieve IMDB Cover Images with Perl
In response to David’s post on PHP IMDB Information Grabber, I thought I would extend his idea and grab the cover image for the movie and save it.
Posted in Howto, Programming | Comments OffUpdate Twitter From your Blog If you are Logged In
I don’t want to have to login to Twitter all the time to do updates. So what I made was a script that displays a small text box near my twitter updates on my blog when I am logged in. … Continue reading
Posted in Howto, Programming | 1 CommentAdding Shell to Vim Using Screen
When programming in Perl or any language that requires you to run it from shell it is often helpful to have two screens open at once. One screen for your editor and one screen for running the program. This is … Continue reading
Posted in FreeBSD, Howto, Linux, Programming | 3 CommentsHow Do I Find Open Ports on FreeBSD?
Sometimes it is helpful to know which ports are currently open on your server. On my FreeBSD servers I like to use the sockstat command. It is very similar to the netstat command for Windows or Linux. You can configure … Continue reading
Posted in FreeBSD, Howto | Comments OffGetting Your Twitter Updates with Curl
I have had some serious issues integrating Twitter into my site using the javascript method. Firefox seems to load the twitter updates every time without a problem; however, Internet Explorer and Opera both have issues. Opera for example will load … Continue reading
Posted in Howto | 4 CommentsIntroduction to AutoIt
Ever dream about automating mundane tasks? Or wish you could train you computer to do your work for you? I think we would all love to have the power of automation in our lives. With AutoIt we can easily take … Continue reading
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