This tutorial helps beginners learn the basics of Perl programming.

You’ll also find quick reminders of how to do a few things in Perl, orgnanized by task, here

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Many Web sites feature RSS feeds and newsletter subscriptions that let you know when they’ve updated their contents, but unfortunately, a significant number of sites still don’t. How can you keep up with them? Let’s build a shell script to automate that task.

A simple script for tracking Web sites

The Vim editor allows you to modify its behavior via scripts, and the Vim community has produced hundreds of scripts that may help you be more productive, or add functions to Vim that you’ve always wished it would have. Here are five that I find…

Five scripts that make life easier with Vim

MEPIS said today that the release candidate of a community-built “ultra-lite” derivative of its own Linux distribution is ready for testing. AntiX (pronounced “Antics”) is the personal project of MEPIS community member “anticapitalista,” who wanted a MEPIS version that would work well on old PCs.

Ultra-lite AntiX Linux targets obsolete PCs