Perl – USB Sticks Using old flash memory as a backup medium

Mar 15, 2013

USB 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.

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Perl – Distro Update Analysis A Perl tool for querying distribution repositories

Feb 22, 2013

A 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.

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Perl: Heroku Pushing web applications live with Heroku

Aug 23, 2012

If 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.

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ActiveState Releases Komodo 7.1

Jul 26, 2012

ActiveState 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.

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Perl: Clonezilla Backups Using Clonezilla and Perl scripts for backups

Jun 21, 2012

Clonezilla 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.

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Perl: Dropbox Doing more with Dropbox

Jun 27, 2011

The 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.

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Perl: OpenOffice Label Merge Perl and OpenOffice for Lovely Labels

Jun 20, 2011

OpenOffice 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.

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ActiveState Acquires Phenona

Jun 14, 2011

Phenona's 15-year-old founder to join ActiveState's team part-time.

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