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- Networked Qualitative Data Analysis With Perl and XML
- One area that the academic colleagues identified as being lacking in their 'Toolkit' was a lightweight and, above all, low-cost, Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software CAQDAS tool. Many dedicated CADQAS software packages are expensive and are adapted for installation on single computers; it is commonplace to find such software on...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Software, Perl, Network, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Tools & Techniques, XML, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Software Development
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- Putting Information to Work With Perl
- IX Development Laboratories Inc., a Santa Rosa, California company, specializes in Web sites it calls Information Factories, or sites that involve a high degree of interaction with users. On such sites, people provide information that is manipulated to produce different information of value to other people; and these powerful, complex...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Intellix, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Storage, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware
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- Logicept's Back-End Implementation for Seniors.com
- Seniors.com is a portal providing current and useful information for men and women, 50 and over. With more than 10,000 registered users, many of whom visit the site daily, Seniors.com needed an extensive list of standard Web-portal features like user registration, user login, discussion forums, site navigation, and newsletter distribution....
- Tags: Newsletter, O'Reilly Media Inc., Logicept, Seniors.com, Corporate Communications, Portals, Gender And Diversity, Web Technology, Content Management, Marketing, Internet, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Top Ten 802.11 Myths of 2005
- The authors explain several myths that repeatedly popped up in popular wireless coverage. Security is important, but it is not the only design criteria for wireless networks. Now that most laptops come with wireless LAN interfaces, network architects need to design networks with much greater capacity than at any point...
- Tags: Security, IEEE 802.11, Network, O'Reilly Media Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Amazon's Production Software Group Builds Auction Site Prototype
- When Amazon decided to expand into online auctions in 1999, the company's production software group faced a daunting challenge: build a prototype of a complex, robust auction site as quickly as possible. Without a second thought, the group pulled Perl out of its arsenal. With Perl, the company built a...
- Tags: Software, Auction Site, Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- Hacking Windows XP
- If the system contains more than one user account, or if one has set up XP to require logins, one will have to log in to XP before one can begin to use it. But one needn't stay with the default XP login rules; one can use a single Registry...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Hacking, built-In, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet
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- Perl Keeps Golf Dream Alive
- Charles Jones, LLC is a public records search company that cut it's teeth on computers made by a company known as GE. When the Senior Manager of Systems Development at Charles Jones, LLC realized that his company's monthly sales reporting system threatened to curtail his dream of golfing on Friday...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- With Perl, SupportWizard Avoided the Usual Compromises
- Few years ago, Integral Solutions Corporation ISC in Redwood City, California, set out to tackle what their engineers admit was a rather bold plan. The company wanted to develop a Web-based customer support solution with high-end functionality comparable to the best available - and sell it at one-fifth the price....
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Help Desk, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Call Centers, Development Tools, It Operations, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- Findus Helps Finding Books in German Public Libraries
- Richard Lippmann, a system administrator for the city of Zindorf in Germany, describes Findus, a search utility he created as a personal project to help cut down on his family's late fees at their public library. Now that "Personal project" has evolved into a program serving more than 2 million...
- Tags: Books, O'Reilly Media Inc., Library, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
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- Perl Provides Document Management and Control for CCRA
- The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA - the Federal tax collection agency) has a collection of approximate 10,000 forms, guides and other publications that require management and control. Earlier, these forms were managed using a proprietary database software that was costly to maintain and difficult to extend. As well,...
- Tags: Business Requirement, Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
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- Perl Helps Heal Swiss Hospital's Database Migration Pain
- After using an Ingres ARUNA database for ten years, the pathology laboratory at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland decided it was time to replace their software with a more open Oracle DIAMIC package. No easy task for a facility which handles over 50,000 lab samples per year and is...
- Tags: Perl, Hospital, O'Reilly Media Inc., Migration, Ingres, Databases, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Storage, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware
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- Developing Java Beans: Introduction
- As software developers, one is constantly being asked to build applications in less time and with less money. And, of course, these applications are expected to be better and faster than ever before. Object-oriented techniques and component software environments are in wide use now, in the hope that they can...
- Tags: Application, JavaBeans, O'Reilly Media Inc., Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Java, Middleware, Management, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
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- File Cache Performance and Tuning
- The built-in Windows 2000 file cache is essential to the performance of Windows 2000 file servers. It is also an important factor in the performance of Microsoft Internet Information Server IIS as well as many other applications. The file cache is a specific, reserved area of virtual storage in the...
- Tags: Performance, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft IIS Server, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, File Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
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- Bottom-Up Application Programming With Perl
- A major UK bank wanted a Perl guru, but would settle for someone 'Who knew a bit about everything'. They wanted a fully configurable shopping-basket ordering system. While Perl may not have seemed the obvious choice for such a system, the existing system was already using it, and they wanted...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Programming, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- Managing Student Affairs With Perl at the University of Papua New Guinea
- In 1999, the University of Papua New Guinea UPNG restructured its academic year from two semesters per year to three trimesters, with a week between each term. The change in the academic calendar led the School of Natural and Physical Sciences SNPS to re-evaluate the data entry process for student...
- Tags: Perl, Data Entry, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- Perl Excels at Quick Add-Ons to Existing Applications
- One of Perl's most successful aspects is its ability to handle small, urgent tasks that must mesh with an existing structure. The manager for the Enterprise Network Applications Documentation and Quality Assurance department faced with just such a task - creating a customer response form for ENA's Web site. The...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Excel, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- Perl Is Precious to Venezuelan ISP
- As part of his job at the largest ISP in the country, a Systems Manager at Cantv.net is in charge of all the aspects of the logical service provisioning for ADSL customers. Their network is not simple. Once the network was up and running, lots of customers were brought in...
- Tags: Perl, Network, O'Reilly Media Inc., Service Provisioning, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Strategy, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Networking, Internet, Sales, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- Siemens Business Services Chooses Perl for Its Landmark Application
- With more than 95,000 applications for title transfer per year, Siemens' U.K. government customer, the Registers Of Scotland Executive Agency ROS, is a busy organization. By their very nature, databases are often indispensable; but rarely do they carry the tradition, symbolism, and historical importance equal to the Registers of Scotland....
- Tags: Perl, Siemens AG, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Storage, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware
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- Perl Is Instrumental in Data Warehouse for Italy's Top Bank
- UniCredito Italiano UCI is a 2,600-branch group of banks with roots tracing back to Renaissance times and the old merchant bankers of Milan. Changes in Europe's monetary market have opened up unprecedented new opportunities for UCI, whose network now includes banks in Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Slovakia. UCI urgently needed...
- Tags: Bank, Data Warehouse, Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., ERM, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Financial Services, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
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- Unicode overview: Explore the basics of character sets and encodings
- The emergence of the Unicode Standard, and the availability of tools supporting it, is among the most significant recent global software technology trends. By providing a unique number for every character regardless of platform, program, or language, Unicode enables a single software product or web site to be targeted across...
- Tags: Chapter, Unicode, O'Reilly Media Inc., Character Set
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