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Can anyone of you leet hax0rs hack up a Perl program that can parse an Amazon book page and notify me when a used book is less than a certain amount? I could run it through the Windows scheduler to check every 5 minutes and it would help a lot.I get paid to do [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Tags: Amazon, CGI, data miner, Fred Durst, html, HTTP, Perl, php, USD, Windows scheduler, Windows XP | Category: general | Comments (2)

I am looking to get into programming/Dev work.
I have been doing HW/network/tech support for a long time and I am burned out on it. I was talking to one of our developers at work and he suggested reading up on and starting with C# and ASP.net.
Any suggestions/thoughts/book recommendations for a newby? I have absolutely 0 [...]

October 18th, 2008 | Tags: API, ASM programmer, ASP.net, assembly programmer, bad programmer, bad software, bash programmer, beautiful systems, Bill Clinton, C programmer, C++, Can, CGI, Cisco, client-side web dev, Colonel, computing, CS professor, few tools, functional applications, functional programming, Google, Governor, hand tools, html, HTTP, Intel, interpreter, Java, JavaScript, limited programmer, Microsoft, object-oriented programming, online apps, online web application, Pascal, Perl, php, power tools, powershell programmer, practices/software, Pragmatic Programmer, programmer, Programming for Beginners, Python, real solution, regular applications, Ruby, script interpreter, skilled programmer, software developers, software piece, SQL, TCP/IP, ultimate programmer, Visual Studio, Wait, web app, Web applications, web apps, web browser, web coding, web developer, web development, Web programming, web resources, web server, web services | Category: general | Comments (1)