Archive for the ‘devshed.com’ Category
Setting Up a Web-Based File Manager: bfExplorer
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Perl Lists: Utilizing List::Util
Monday, April 14th, 2008In this fifth part of our series on Lists we will cover the List Util module which gives us seven handy-dandy subroutines with which to manipulate our lists. If we have time we ll also cover multi-dimensional lists in more depth we briefly covered them ...
CVS Quickstart Guide
Thursday, April 10th, 2008The Concurrent Versions System CVS is an open source tool that lets you manage versions of anything stored in files. If you re a software developer trying to manage different versions of the same code you ll want to check out this three-part series. It is excerpted ...
Defining a Custom Function for File Uploaders with PHP 5
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008In the next few lines I m going to show you how to wrap the file uploading application built in the previous article of the series into a single custom PHP function. This will turn it into a more maintainable and reusable piece of code.... SEARCH The Internet's Largest White Paper ...
Parsing Child Nodes with the DOM XML extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008In this last chapter of the series I m going to teach you how to handle the child nodes of an XML document by way of two simple methods called hasChildNode and removeChild respectively. So let s not waste any more time in preliminaries ...
Perl Lists: The Split() Function
Monday, April 7th, 2008In this fourth part of our series on Lists we will start off with the split function and hopefully end by covering hashes. In our last article we covered the splice function which we used to add remove and replace elements ...
SQL and CGI with Perl and DBI
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008In this conclusion to a four-part series on Perl and DBI you will learn about SQL queries and DBI using Perl and DBI with CGI and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book em Beginning Perl em Apress ...
Creating an Error Handling Module for a PHP 5 File Uploader
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Welcome to the third chapter of the series Building file uploaders with PHP 5. Comprised of five approachable tutorials this series teaches you the fundamentals of constructing file uploading applications with PHP 5. It also complements the corresponding theoretical concepts with numerous hands-on examples. In this third ...
Accessing Attributes and Cloning Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008You ve probably realized that the DOM XML library can be pretty useful when working with web documents. However this extension includes some other methods which can be utilized to parse attributes of a given XML string as well as to clone nodes. Thus considering that ...
Perl Lists: More Functions and Operators
Monday, March 31st, 2008We left off covering the splice function which can be used for adding and removing elements from a list. We also spoke about four other functions pop push shift and unshift which are all ...
SELECT Queries and Perl
Thursday, March 27th, 2008In this third part of a four-part series on Perl and DBI you will learn about using SELECT queries to get information from databases. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book em Beginning Perl em Apress ISBN 159 59391X .... Win ...
Retrieving Information on Selected Files with a PHP 5 File Uploader
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008The initial script in the first tutorial of this series lacked some important features such as the implementation of an effective error handling module and the ability to check the MIME type and size of the file being uploaded. In this second installment of the series I m ...
Handling HTML Strings and Files with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008The DOM XML extension has a few additional methods that can be used to process HTML files and strings at least at a pretty basic level. Thus this fifth part of the series will be entirely focused on explaining how to work with these methods. I will include ...
Perl Lists: More on Manipulation
Monday, March 24th, 2008In our last article we talked about lists going somewhat in-depth on their capabilities. We talked about creating them printing from them and even used a slicing technique to add and remove from our lists. In this article we will start off looking at more traditional ways ...
Creating a Database with Perl and DBI
Thursday, March 20th, 2008In this second part of a four-part series on Perl and the DBI you ll learn how to create a database and how to use a collection of very important commands. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book em Beginning Perl em by ...
Building File Uploaders with PHP 5
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008My goal here is simply tackling file uploads from a hands-on point of view and discarding all of those additional configuration settings that must be performed in the web server. Therefore in this series of articles I m going to show you how to build some file uploading ...
Working with Multiple Document Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Welcome to the fourth article of the series A quick overview of the DOM XML extension in PHP 5. By means of easy-to-grasp hands-on examples this series equips you with a friendly guide to using the most relevant methods that come bundled with the DOM XML PHP ...
Perl: Sailing the List(less) Seas
Monday, March 17th, 2008People love lists. Everywhere you look you see them. On magazines Top Ten Fattest Hotties. On television The 2 Gorillas That Make Better Mothers Than Britney Spears. They re everywhere you can t escape. In this article and the ones that follow I am going ...
Perl and DBI
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Databases are a mission-critical part of any company s resources. If you program in Perl you ll want to learn about the DBI which can help you connect to many popular databases. This article the first part of a series is excerpted from chapter 15 of ...
Outsourcing: the Hoopla, the Reality
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Outsourcing IT to foreign countries is a big and emotional topic for a lot of people especially in the United States with career IT professionals now living in fear that their jobs will go to bright-eyed and bushy-tailed southeast Asians. Recent budget reports of several companies ...
Inserting Comments and Accessing Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Welcome to the third chapter of the series A quick overview of the DOM XML extension in PHP 5. As the article s title suggests this series walks you through using the most relevant methods that come packaged with this powerful XML-related PHP extension to perform specific ...
Perl: Concatenating Text and More
Monday, March 10th, 2008This marks the finale of our coverage of text in Perl until we get into some more of the advanced Perl features at any rate . We left off with the here document and how to use it to display text exactly as we type it in using ...
SSH with Twisted
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Twisted is a framework for networked applications. In this article you ll learn how to use the Secure Shell SSH with Twisted to accomplish a variety of useful tasks. This article is excerpted from chapter 1 of the book em Twisted Network Programming Essentials ...
Introducing the Spring Framework
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008In this discussion I will be focusing on the Spring Framework. The first section will be about the whys and wherefores of the Spring Framework. In the second and third sections I will explain how to use the Spring Framework to implement business logic. In the fourth and ...
