Description: This is probably one of the modules that I use most frequently. I commonly write reporting and statistic generating scripts. When the data is finished being crunched, I then dump it into a scalar and send it off in an email. This is the module that does my dirty work for me. CPAN: Mail::Sender …
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Description: When I need to interact with the raw IO of telnetting to a port or creating a hand rolled implementation of my own service, I use IO::Socket. My most recent endeavor was for a need to check weather or not services were running on a regular basis. I will show some excepts from the …
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Description: Consistantly writing programs that either act as daemons or take a long time to run depending on the input, I find it necessary to track weather or not they are still running. Lots of programs do this and its generally called state or status tracking. One of the most common ways to do this …
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Description: File::Find is a pretty straightforward and useful module. I often find myself needing to hunt down a bunch of files or parse through a particular grouping of files. Because of TIMTOWTDI, I usually choose to use File::Find based on its ease of use. CPAN: File::Find Example 1: Being a System’s Administrator, I am usually …
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Description: Email::Find is a module for finding a subset of RFC 822 email addresses in arbitrary text. The addresses it finds are not guaranteed to exist or even actually be email addresses at all, but they will be valid RFC 822 syntax. Email::Find will perform some heuristics to avoid some of the more obvious red …
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Before I go into any modules, I think I should explain what I am doing and why I am doing it. And although I am sure that this is done elsewhere and I am not a fan of reinventing the wheel, I am a fan of making my own life easier and hopefully other’s lives …
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Although I already posted my poem on Hanukah first, that was just because it was Hanukah and I wanted to get it up there. This is actually the first one that I wrote. Its shabby, but it got me going. # No Substitutes foreach (%challenge) { $i; wait; $i =~ study each %challenge; foreach ($programming{language}) …
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