Can I write to a div using Perl, or otherwise solve my form submission problem? [more inside]
posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 5 answers

I need to be able to automatically identify language (English, Japaneese, Russian, etc ... ) in which a particular blog-post has been written. (lang attribute might or might not be available). [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I get my web server to interpret perl [more inside]
posted on May 28, 2008 - 7 answers

How do I redirect incoming website visitors to an external site by IP address? [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2008 - 7 answers

Faster techniques for grabbing lines of a file and doing text manipulation and arithmetic via shell (or other) scripting? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2008 - 20 answers

Best starting point for e-commerce / shopping cart software? I'm a competent Perl programmer with background in several other languages, who wants to create a decidedly minimalist-looking web site shopping cart for a client. I expect to hack Perl or PHP code, but would like to hack things that are designed to be hacked. Anyone tried CRE Loaded? Other recommendations? Other places to ask? [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2008 - 11 answers

What's the best way to export all of the emails in a Thunderbird inbox to text files, one text file per email? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm planning on starting a database freelancing business. I understand a lot of people prefer Microsoft Access or FileMaker. With the current evolving trend of applications going on the web and add to that my somewhat good experience with PHP, HTML, Javascript and CSS I'm seeking a cross platform efficient application environment. This is why I believe Access and FileMaker are not an option, I'm also more experienced with high level languages than I am with Access or FileMaker. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 11 answers

Does compiled vs. interpreted code make a difference if the structure of the algorithm is the same (ie, ugly and slow)? Should I take the extra effort of writing a small program in C++ or just do it in Perl...? [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2008 - 17 answers

How can I run a web server on OS X without admin access? [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - 14 answers

I'm undertaking a personal web development and database building project, but I don't do web development or database building. Please help me assess the best options to have someone else do the work for me. I think the stuff I want is fairly easy, but please tell me what you think. [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - 4 answers

Does anyone have any experience with or tips on installing Perl without root privileges? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - 9 answers

Old-school, non-WYSIWYG web-based file editor apps. Do they still exist? [more inside]
posted on Jan 12, 2008 - 6 answers

My company is using a product called "Webumake" and the internal WYSIWYG editor does not work in IE7, Firefox, IE6 on the Mac... [more inside]
posted on Jan 3, 2008 - 2 answers

Help me composite some regex. (That phrasing makes this question sound way less nerdy than it is) [more inside]
posted on Dec 28, 2007 - 13 answers

GrepFilter: How to pull the last 10 authusers from an Apache log file, without all the noise? [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2007 - 10 answers

ParseFilter: I have a CSV file full of leads I need to parse into a more, er, concise format. What would the hive mind recommend? [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2007 - 23 answers

Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML? [more inside]
posted on Nov 1, 2007 - 3 answers

How do I color output in Perl? [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2007 - 9 answers

I would basically like to rip off, wholesale, some command-line script which will provide me a countdown -- only in days. No years, months, minutes, or seconds. Unfortunately, adapting an existing script is beyond my ken. [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2007 - 5 answers

Without access to PHP, MySQL, or any other fancy server-side stuff I still need to have dynamic pages. What are my options? [more inside]
posted on Sep 12, 2007 - 11 answers

Is there a freeware or light weight tool (e.g. perl script) we can use to show us that the SNMP traps are received successfully? [more inside]
posted on Jul 30, 2007 - 4 answers

I am need help writing a Perl script that given the URL of a file (particularly image files) it downloads the file to a local directory I define. [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2007 - 6 answers

Alternatives to lynx, wget and get from the unix command line? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2007 - 11 answers

What are the best database-driven Web application development frameworks out there right now? More specifically, please orient me to toolsets you know of that are similar to Ruby on Rails. [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2007 - 17 answers

In Linux, what's the simplest way to take a podcast RSS file as input, and output a file containing just the URLs of all the MP3s enclosed in the RSS file? Difficulty: the method must only Bash + GNU tools, Python or Perl, with no non-standard add-on libraries or dependencies required.
posted on May 10, 2007 - 22 answers

Which programming language can I learn relatively quickly for simple interpretation and manipulation of text files on my Windows box? [more inside]
posted on Apr 12, 2007 - 28 answers

Given multiple contiguous polygons, the coordinates of which are precisely known, how can I combine them into a coordinate set for a single polygon? [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2007 - 18 answers

Help! I'm trying to write perl, but I have no idea how to write perl. I need to remove charaters from a string. Can you show me how? [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 29 answers

Coding question: What is the best/easiest way to preserve typographical formatting (like nbsp's, line breaks) of pasted text that will be stored in a database and later displayed in boxes of arbitrary size? [more inside]
posted on Dec 31, 2006 - 6 answers

I want to create a web application in which the user enters text into a field and clicks on a submit button, and the text is then altered based on a set of conditions and given back to the user. What's the easiest way of doing this? I have a vague idea that I should use Perl and CGI. I don't know Perl or CGI, but I do know a bit of Java, a bit about servlets and JSPs, some Visual Basic, and quite a bit about http. [more inside]
posted on Nov 29, 2006 - 13 answers

Convert perl to python: I am very comfortable with regular expressions but I need help converting an implementation of them from Perl to Python. I have an example Perl script below that opens a file, scans through it one line at a time, does a s// replace, then finds a string in the result and stores it in another variable. I would love to just have a working Python version of this for my edification-- and if you have any "Perl to Python" tutorial links I'd love to see them. [more inside]
posted on Nov 11, 2006 - 11 answers

I'd like to learn about deploying perlbal. I see docs on installing it but not many on how to actually configure and make use of it. I have just finished a book on Perl. (OO Perl is ugly but doable) Getting everything from CPAN seemed straight forward...Now what? Does this run under mod_perl & Apache? Lighty? Is it its own server and run as a daemon? Any pointers greatly appreciated.
posted on Nov 3, 2006 - 3 answers

Is there a perl/shellscripted way to automatically check a pop3 account and copy new messages directly into a specified IMAP folder? I've already set up a "forwarding rule" that sort of does this, but if there's a more direct way to accomplish it, that would be cool...
posted on Oct 31, 2006 - 4 answers

We're losing a freelance, outsourced web coder that our business relies upon. How do we find and then transition over to someone new without losing loads of money and time? Story inside. [more inside]
posted on Sep 15, 2006 - 11 answers

Is there an tool/tutorial to web scrape secure sites like Online Banking or other sites that make sure that it's you that is logging in? [more inside]
posted on Sep 7, 2006 - 7 answers

I am an experienced software engineer and was laid off recently. I'm currently applying for positions. My ideal would be a telecommuting gig, which is the type of position I had most recently. A certain job mailing list I subscribe to has a lot of promising positions, but many of them are marked "onsite". Here's my question: shall I apply for some of these "onsite" positions in the hope that my qualifications will impress the hiring person enough to consider hiring me as a telecommuter? Or would this just be a waste of time for everyone concerned? [more inside]
posted on Sep 5, 2006 - 7 answers

TechFilter: I would like to obtain the SWF file out of this SIS package. Can it be done? [more inside]
posted on Aug 27, 2006 - 3 answers

Movable Type PHP library: is it possible to use the PHP library in the same fashion as the perl library? [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2006 - 4 answers

Can anybody suggest a gentle forum or mailing list for a Perl newbie? [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2006 - 7 answers

What's the best way to escape meta-characters in Perl regular expressions? [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2006 - 4 answers

*nix shell "best practices" anyone? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2006 - 9 answers

I need, post haste, a perl or shell script that will loop through a directory and combine files. The files are named like this: 212_Class001, 212_Class002, 212_Class0** There are some gaps in the sequence. In retrospect it was a bad idea to store class notes in individual files. I'd like to combine them in the sequence they are numbered. Can someone please help ‽
posted on May 11, 2006 - 10 answers

Help me make my other Mac, in the other room, beep me when an app has finished what it's doing. [more inside]
posted on May 11, 2006 - 20 answers

mod_perl madness! How do I choose between different perl modules at compile (such as it is) time? I'm trying to get a program to be able to run under either mod_perl or mod_perl2 (apache 1.3.x and apache 2.0.x, respectively). Almost all of the version specific stuff can be abstracted out, except... [more inside]
posted on Apr 19, 2006 - 8 answers

Is there a server-based RSS aggregator that works like Safari RSS? [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2006 - 12 answers

Will Perl 6 become mandatory? I know Perl 5 pretty well, and I'd like to keep listing Perl on my resume. I wonder if employers who value Perl skills will start to expect Perl 6 to be listed. [more inside]
posted on Feb 15, 2006 - 11 answers

Copy most recent post from Wordpress to another server? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2006 - 4 answers

What are good free programming language learning environments? [more inside]
posted on Dec 30, 2005 - 41 answers

Perl regular expression question inside. Trying to parse a list of items... [more inside]
posted on Dec 21, 2005 - 8 answers