Perl source code comparison makes for good reading
One important avenue to good writing is good reading: study of what others have written. Jose Rey provides an instructive example.
Unix How to: Thinking in Unix Time
The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It's a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and grep commands while thinking "Wow, this is groovy". OK, maybe not quite "groovy", but close!
Is Your Web Site Under Attack?
If you have a web site, the answer is undoubtedly "yes". Someone somewhere or, more likely, quite a few someones are attempting to attack your site or the system on which it is running. Assuming hackers have found your site and are testing it for holes that they might crawl through, let's take a look at how you can uncover evidence of their exploits with a quick examination of your web logs.
Peer pick: Perl scripts to interact with Twitter API
"Up until a couple of months ago I had not used a debugger since my FORTRAN days. But I found that it was far easier to develop simple Perl scripts to interact with the Twitter API using a debugger (Komodo) than it was to write a bunch of test scripts." - Ed Borasky
Digesting Log data - part 2
Last week, we looked at a script that digests log files by making clever use of Perl's impressive implementation of arrays. This week, we look at a pared down version of the same script, paying close attention to performance and making some significant efficiency improvements. Though Perl seems to provide us with many ways of accomplishing the same task as does Unix in general, some methods are considerably more efficient than others.
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I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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