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Regular Expression Recipes, by Nathan Good
I’m a regular expression junkie – I think one of the main reasons I love Perl so much is because it’s just so darn easy to go ahead and regexp either with a substitution or match to get the information I want. It certainly makes certain parts of m…
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Free IRC Clients
I have a new article up at Free Software Magazine on free, terminal (i.e. non-GUI) based IRC clients. Here’s the extract: In this article I???m going to look at a staple application of many user???s lives. No, not a web browser, but an IRC client. Int…
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Finding alternatives in developing software
My latest article over at Free Software Magazine is available. This time, I’m looking at the role of free software in development, both of free and proprietary applications. I discuss the benefits of free software and the pitfalls of proprietary s…
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BSD on POWER Now Online
My first article for Free Software Magazine becomes freely available online. Here’s the intro: When you think of the PowerPC processor, chances are you???ll think of just two platforms and, by association, two operating systems. Apple???s Mac OS X, wh…
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Free Software Magazine by RSS
Free Software Magazine – another of the groups which gets my undivided attention for at least two articles each month – have changed the way they release articles from previous issues. No longer will we get one massive slap of pieces; instead we’l…
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BSD on POWER, Free Software Magazine Issue 3
This morning, my printed copy of Issue 3 of Free Software Magazine arrived. I know I should have got over the ‘Wow, that’s my name on the cover’ thing, but I haven’t. It still feels good 🙂 When Chris finished his book he said ‘It’s great now I’ve…