Perl – USB Sticks Using old flash memory as a backup medium
Mar 15, 2013USB sticks and SD cards quickly lose their value, but if a script distributes the data across several such devices, flash memory is still useful as a fast and shockproof backup medium despite limited capacity.
more »Perl – Distro Update Analysis A Perl tool for querying distribution repositories
Feb 22, 2013A Perl script calls various plugins that sniff around on FTP and HTTP servers run by the major Linux distributions to discover when Fedora, Debian, and other distros update their packages.
more »Perl: Heroku Pushing web applications live with Heroku
Aug 23, 2012If you want to put together a web application in your favorite language and publish it for free, you will find Heroku a convenient helper. The service even allows you to bring your own web server.
more »ActiveState Releases Komodo 7.1
Jul 26, 2012ActiveState announces the release of Komodo IDE 7.1, an award-winning multiplatform integrated development environment (IDE) for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, and web development.
more »Perl: Clonezilla Backups Using Clonezilla and Perl scripts for backups
Jun 21, 2012Clonezilla makes backing up and restoring your system an easy affair that only involves a few key strokes. A homegrown solution reduces the time and effort to the act of slotting in a CD, on which you previously burned a Perl script.
more »Perl: Dropbox Doing more with Dropbox
Jun 27, 2011The proprietary Dropbox service has become a popular way to exchange large files. The Dropbox web API also supports scripts, like the one in this article that picks up files from behind a firewall.
more »Perl: OpenOffice Label Merge Perl and OpenOffice for Lovely Labels
Jun 20, 2011OpenOffice offers a selection of preconfigured formats for users who need to print their own self-adhesive labels. Perl feeds the address data to the document.
more »ActiveState Acquires Phenona
Jun 14, 2011Phenona's 15-year-old founder to join ActiveState's team part-time.
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