http://www.bayview.com/blog Bay View Consulting Services, Inc. Tue, 06 May 2008 17:48:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've picked the dates for our next Perl training classes. They will be held on Saturdays, from 9am to 6pm, in Sunnyvale, CA. The dates are: Perl 101 - October 4 Perl 201 - October 11 Sign up early for the early bird discount ($50 off) and take an extra 10% ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2008/05/06/october-2008-perl-training/ We are planning to debut several new classes soon... Shell 101 - Using the Unix/Linux command line, including Bourne shell, tcsh, and text-processing utilities Shell 201 - Writing shell scripts in Bourne Again Shell (bash) Regex 101 - All about regular expressions, including grep, text editing (vi or emacs), Perl, and more If you ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2007/11/07/new-classes-coming-soon-shell-and-regular-expressions/ We've picked the dates for our next Perl training classes. They will be held on Saturdays, from 9am to 6pm, in Sunnyvale. The dates are: Perl 101 - September 22 Perl 201 - October 6 and 20 (two half-day classes) Sign up early for the early bird discount ($50 off all-day ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2007/06/12/july-perl-training/ Sign up now for Perl 101 and Perl 201. They will be held on June 9 and 16, respectively. Both classes are held on Saturdays from 9am-6pm in Sunnyvale. Sign up by May 25 to get early bird pricing. For more information give us a call ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2007/05/02/perl-training-in-june/ We are pleased to announce dates for the Perl 101 and 201 classes. This is the first offering of these classes in 2007. They will be held on February 10 (Perl 101) and 24 (Perl 201) in Sunnyvale. Please sign up by January 26 to take advantage ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2007/01/08/new-perl-training-dates/ We've picked the dates for our next Perl training classes. They will be held on Saturdays, from 9am to 6pm, in Sunnyvale, CA. The dates are: Perl 101 - April 19 Perl 201 - April 26 Sign up early for the early bird discount ($50 off) and take an extra 10% ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2007/01/03/perl-classes-in-april-2008/ As an interpreted language, Perl scripts can generally be run unmodified on any platform. But there are situations where the differences between platforms make it necessary to test what platform you are running on and act accordingly. Say, for example, that you need to change permissions on a file. ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2006/10/02/platform-specific-perl/ The Number::Format module is now a SourceForge.net project and we have just released our first version there, which is version 1.52. It fixes a minor bug in the format_price subroutine which caused errors during the running of the test suite. The project, originally written by Bay View Consulting's ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2006/09/21/numberformat-152-now-on-sourceforge/ One of regular expressions' most useful features is memorization. To do this, just put parentheses around part of your expression and the result will be memorized: my($name) = /hello, (\w+)/ In this example, we look in $_ for the word "hello" followed by a comma, space, and a word. Since ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2006/04/20/ignorance-is-bliss-non-memorizing-parentheses/ The Perl Tips that were previously mere Web pages are now being presented in the form of a blog (short for "web log"). What does this mean to you? Several things: You can subscribe to it via an RSS feed using your favorite feed reader, such as NewsGator (Windows) ... http://www.bayview.com/blog/2006/01/21/perl-tips-now-available-in-blog-form/