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  • Building BlogDB

    Building an open-source website to showcase blogs from around the internet.

  • Building Open News Wire

    This is the story of how I forked House News Wire and created Open News Wire.

  • Building House News Wire

    This guide walks through creating House News Wire, a simple and open-source message posting app that includes user re...

  • Creating my development environment

    To work on projects, I'll need a development environment. This guide walks through building one and making it reprodu...

  • Credential Management In DBIX::Class

    Most companies have a method of storing passwords and configuration details in a configuration file. For programmers ...

  • Find a Perl Module's Path

    This article covers the standard methods of locating Perl Modules on your system.

  • Force Download with HTTP Headers

    Through the use of the HTTP headers you can force a web browser to download content, instead of displaying it. You co...

  • Cookieless Domains

    The premise of cookieless domains is that one can speed up an HTTP transaction and the amount of entities downloaded ...

  • Understanding Bash History

    Understanding how to fully utilize bash's history functions are paramount to being able to quickly recall commands an...

  • Understanding Job Control In Bash

    Between opening a number of shells and running a screen multiplexer like 'screen' there are many ways people utilize ...

  • Understanding File Descriptors and IO Redirection

    The ability to string together data between processes and controlling where it comes from and goes to is ultimately a...

  • Understanding HTTP Caching

    Understanding how HTTP Caching and Content Distribution Networks work.

  • SSH: Tips And Tricks You Need

    SSH is one of the most widely used protocols for connecting to remote shells. While there are numerous SSH clients th...

  • Five Text Processing Tools You Should Know

    Easily learn basic text processing from this article that describes how to use simple Shell commands to transform data.