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Aptana 3 Rocks

Been trying to find a free (as in beer) development environment that is easy to use and configure with sensible defaults. Just downloaded Aptana 3 and after 2 days use. We have a winner. Things I like: Downloaded both Windows and Linux clients - Install was easy on...

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Perl Switch/Case Satement

for (@ARGV) { if (/^6\d{4}$/) { $item_code = $_; $action = 'load'; } elsif (/^stop$/) { $action = 'stop' ; } elsif (/^start$/) { $action = 'start'; } else { print "Default\n"; } } print "Item : " . $item_code . "\n"; print "Action : " . $action ....

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ABA File Information

Every now and again a business has to change Banks and you are left to figure out what the ABA file format should be and what the different fields mean. Especially annoying is when you have set it up and have been running for years and the meaning has been lost over...

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Rackspace Cloud – Uptime

uptime 05:29:01 up 44 days, 4:54, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 Since I went to a small Rackspace cloud server I was concerned whether it would be stable. I have only had the account for a couple of months but the uptime is consistent with my last reboot so...

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