February 2017 Archives

Else Clauses on Loops

I am curious whether anyone else would like to see else="font-size:12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:Ca…

Not Comparing The Way You Meant

Here’s another example of code taken, terrifyingly, from a script that a contractor was paid cash money to write. The contractor’s code included a script to remote into another system and perform a command. Most systems required ssh, but we had some older systems that required rsh instead. So the contractor made a configuration file that contained c…

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user-pic My real name is Jeremy Holland. I've been a programmer for 25 years, using primarily Perl since 2000.