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Make your Linux command line work like DOS with shell scripting
You can take advantage of the flexibility inherent in the Linux command shell and create scripts that allow you to emulate DOS commands in a Linux environment. Here's how. Read more »
Learn to search with grep
The grep tool is a great text-searching tool. Using grep, you can search anything that is text, be it text in a file or text in a command's output. Grep can search for simple strings or regular expressions, and it can present its output in a variety of useful ways. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
JavaScript tips to accelerate a slow Web app
We've got four simple tricks to help squeeze a little extra speed out of your JavaScript. Read more »
Build a basic Web scraper in Python
There are times when your programs need to access the Web without worrying about the details of the mark-up. In this example we write a HTML scraper using the Python parsing library BeautifulSoup. Read more »
Discover Perl's File::Find module
To show how this works, Builder.com walks you through a sample script that employs the File::Find module. Read more »
Linux users: Know thy compression utilities
Linux offers a specific compression utility for almost any job. But don't get scared off by the number of Linux utilities for this task. Learn the basics to see how flexible and simple Linux compression can be. Read more »
SQL Server 2005 secrets
There's plenty of hype about the new SQL Server 2005. Here's a list what's important about the pending release, and what you can plan on using SQL Server for in the near future. Read more »
Track network connections with LSOF on Linux
LiSt Open Files (LSOF) is a Linux utility that allows you to view current network connections and the files associated with them. While similar in many ways to utilities like netstat and fuser, LSOF has many unique options that let you find specific information on ports, users, processes, and files. Read more »
Doxygen: A breath of fresh air for documentation
Although it's part of your job, creating documentation isn't nearly as much fun as writing code. Check out this open source tool that automates the creation of your docs. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.