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.
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posted by mtstover
on Feb 19, 2008 -
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Does anyone have any experience with or tips on installing Perl without root privileges?
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posted by Ritchie
on Jan 23, 2008 -
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Help me composite some regex.
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posted by ChasFile
on Dec 28, 2007 -
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GrepFilter: How to pull the last 10 authusers from an Apache log file, without all the noise?
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posted by rokusan
on Nov 4, 2007 -
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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?
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posted by cdmwebs
on Nov 3, 2007 -
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Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML?
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posted by joshwa
on Nov 1, 2007 -
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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.
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posted by WCityMike
on Sep 27, 2007 -
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Without access to PHP, MySQL, or any other fancy server-side stuff I still need to have dynamic pages. What are my options?
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posted by genial
on Sep 12, 2007 -
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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?
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posted by kaydo
on Jul 30, 2007 -
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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.
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posted by LoopyG
on Jul 15, 2007 -
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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.
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posted by killdevil
on Jul 6, 2007 -
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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 by Jimbob
on May 10, 2007 -
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Which programming language can I learn relatively quickly for simple interpretation and manipulation of text files on my Windows box?
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posted by poweredbybeard
on Apr 12, 2007 -
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Given multiple contiguous polygons, the coordinates of which are precisely known, how can I combine them into a coordinate set for a single polygon?
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posted by Doofus Magoo
on Apr 11, 2007 -
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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?
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posted by TurkishGolds
on Jan 9, 2007 -
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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?
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posted by shownomercy
on Dec 31, 2006 -
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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.
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posted by bingo
on Nov 29, 2006 -
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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.
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posted by neustile
on Nov 11, 2006 -
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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 by Pasa la bola chetu
on Nov 3, 2006 -
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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 by idontlikewords
on Oct 31, 2006 -
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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.
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posted by unclemonty
on Sep 15, 2006 -
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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?
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posted by mphuie
on Sep 7, 2006 -
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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?
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posted by SomePerlGeek
on Sep 5, 2006 -
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Movable Type PHP library: is it possible to use the PHP library in the same fashion as the perl library?
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posted by xmutex
on Jul 19, 2006 -
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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 by Grod
on May 11, 2006 -
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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...
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posted by Captain_Tenille
on Apr 19, 2006 -
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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.
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posted by pornucopia
on Feb 15, 2006 -
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Help me find a windows graphical "drag and drop" script builder.
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posted by wzcx
on Nov 25, 2005 -
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LatencyFilter: I'm making a multiplayer flash game, where players communicate with each other via a socket connection to a server. How fast can information be sent like this?
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posted by cheerleaders_to_your_funeral
on Oct 27, 2005 -
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I need to write something (in perl) to shorten the text of a link if it's a URL, but only a URL. I've played with a variety of regexps and banged my head against HTML::Parser, but I've gotten no love. Help!
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posted by Captain_Tenille
on Oct 26, 2005 -
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I'm writing some personal wiki software that I want to make as secure as possible. Think wiki software in the footsteps of
Tinfoil Hat Linux. The software is intended to run as a CGI Perl script though Apache on the local machine, with data stored in encrypted XML files that will be decrypted for display by the
Crypt::GPG module. So the question is, where could plaintext data escape to? More inside...
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posted by phrontist
on Oct 17, 2005 -
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I want to use a monolithic script to delegate all document requests on my website.
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posted by cortex
on Oct 14, 2005 -
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Can someone help me figure out how to search and replace case-sensitive filenames in HTML using Perl?
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posted by nightengine
on Oct 6, 2005 -
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