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Need Perl program to parse amazon book page

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 [...]

What would it take to get you into consulting?

If you are in IT and have a full time gig, what would it take to sway you to consulting? Is it just money? If so, what is your number? Is it a % of your current salary or $X per year.Depends on the gig. I have done consulting. It’s [...]

PHP VS Ruby on Rails. Which one is best for a beginner?

Obviously I will also be needing to implement MySQL in there as well. Well? Which would you suggest for a beginner?I’ve never seen, nor really know anything about ruby, so my vote is PHP

How long would it take someone to learn PHP? How long before I could edit stuff, etc…?

Text parsing help… perl?

Ok, I know there has to be a way to do this easier than what I’m doing now. I have a list like this:
c5t50060E80000000000000811C00000B0Cd0s2
c5t50060E80000000000000811C00000B0Bd0s2
c5t50060E80000000000000811C00000B0Ad0s2
I want to strip out the c5t at the beginning and the d0s2 at the end. I figure I can dump it into a text file and just do a [...]

Programming for Beginners

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 [...]

Website ‘Media Player’

Do any of you know if it is possible to make it so if any .wmv / .avi file is clicked on my website, it is automatically loaded either in that window, or in a popup.. instead of prompting user to download?
People upload files to my website, and want to be able to play the [...]

Point-of-sale Recommendations

I’m working with a regional company that has 20 retail locations and is using a cryptic, difficult point-of-sale system. I feel like the current POS system is dated by at least ten years. Writing reports is tedious and syncing with the web requires a lot of ‘hacking.’ Does anyone have experience with [...]

website contact form not working

my form doesn’t work. can anyone help me?
here’s the code in the html file:
<form method="POST" action="contact2.php">
Fields marked (*) are required
<p>Email From:* <br>
<input type="text" name="EmailFrom">
<p>FirstName:<br>
<input type="text" name="FirstName">
<p>LastName:<br>

Amazon Cloud

I am really, really impressed with Amazon EC2/S3/Queue/SimpleDB. There have been a few issues of downtime lately, but basically I’ve written a web application using Perl/Catalyst/MySQL/Ubuntu (and sometimes Solaris) that needs to sale to 100K hits an hour or so, but will remain idle most of the time. In other words it needs [...]