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File::Find
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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Email::Find
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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Perl Modules Introduction
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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Brian Hatch & Duane Dunston Interview
This is a re-post (or posting to my blog) of an interview I had done for Linux Security in September of 2002. The original article is available here. Just to give everyone an idea about who writes these articles and feature stories that we spend so much of our time reading each day, I have…
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First Attempt at Poetry: No Substitutes
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})…
