PLEAC (Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook) Perl is noted for the Perl Cookbook, which documents common programming problems and their solutions for the language. PLEAC is an attempt to take ...

If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...

Since every programming language is a tool suited to solve a particular problem, it behooves each IT shop to use the best tool for the job. So in this article, I share a few up-and-coming scripting ...

Generic formats like JSON or XML are easier to version than forms. However, they were not originally intended to be human-readable but machine-readable. Since many applications require a ...

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...