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UTC/Local Date Conversion in Perl With Time::Piece
Time::Piece is my preferred perl module for handling dates. Here is how it can be used to convert between UTC and the local time, even for past dates which may have crossed the current daylight...
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Excalidraw: Add Padding Around Exported Image
My favorite app for creating diagrams is excalidraw. It is a free, open-source, web application that has all the features necessary to quickly create almost any kind of workflow image. The user...
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SVG Files in Adobe Illustator
Although it has gotten better over the years, Adobe Illustrator doesn’t automatically produce SVG files completely suitable (or optimal) for websites. This document is an opinionated process for...
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Regex is a Programming Superpower!
In an August 15 tweet, @iamdevloper, a very funny programmer-humor account, asked which technology you wouldn’t bother to learn over again: JavaScript, Regex, Kubernetes, or PHP. Never mind the...
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Using ack to search Apache web logs
The ack utility uses Perl regular expressions to efficiently search source code, with smart defaults to limit the results to what you expect. One of the ways I use it is to search our Apache web log...
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Automatically Updating CVS Revisions Remotely
Our install process involves updating the CVS versions of individual files on the staging and ultimately production servers. Web Operations is responsible for manually updating the files listed on an...
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