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Perl One Liners

Overview Perl has a reputation as a write-only language and one that is difficult to use. While you can write unreadable code in any language, aspects of Perl make it difficult for novices to read and encourage poor readability. There is one area where Perl remains the unquestioned champion: one-liners. One Liner Perl was originally

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My Favorite Tools for Web Development

SSH Connection My workstation runs Windows 7 x64 and while I have tried PuTTy and Cygwin, for stability and ease-of-user I’ve settled on using NetSarang’s XShell as my favorite SSH tool. PuTTy worked well for me until I started using Windows 7. With the advent of Windows 7, PuTTy began to drop connections intermittently. I

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