In a small company like ours, where everyone wears several hats, The O’Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf has become an indispensable resource for the person wearing the hat with the propeller.
Safari is a big electronic reference library of information technology related books from O’Reilly and other technical publishers well-known to IT departments. (O’Reilly books are the [...]
We maintain this site with Perl Template Toolkit. Depending on how you want to use it, TTK is either a souped-up templating program or a souped-down content management system. Big, dynamic, content-rich websites using it include the popular IT news site Slashdot and the BBC.
With templates, you can see the structure of a page, [...]
When you ask a database for information, the result of the query is a table or “rowset”. People who are good at database management write queries that slice and dice multiple tables, perform calculations on data, and format it all before it ever gets reported back.
I’m not one of the people who are good at [...]
The idea of randomness seems to be in the air. The difficulty human beings have in achieving true randomness is an important clue in One Shot, the Lee Child thriller (”Reacher said nothing”) I listened to recently on a trip to Vermont. Probability, randomness’s opposite number, is the subject of The Drunkard’s Walk [...]