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.

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.

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

How do you make sure the new laptop you just bought is populated with copies of all the Git repositories you use? Easy. By using a meta repository to maintain a list of projects and Perl scripts to automate discovery and cloning.

Kevin Fenzi, one of release-engineers for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and long time member of the EPEL Fedora Special Interest Group (SIG) discusses the EPEL 6 release.

Written in Java, OpenGrok is a source code search and cross reference engine that helps users search, cross-reference and navigate their source tree in a fast and efficient way.

I’m not sure who I should be contacting, but not so long ago I had problems with Windows 7, so I installed Mandriva Linux on my laptop instead, and it is the best OS I’ve used – even better than XP, which I love.