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Andy Lester

McHenry, IL

http://petdance.com/

I've been a programmer for over two decades. I work in Perl and a big pile of legacy PHP.

My book Land the Tech Job You Love is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf.

My Perl news blog is Perlbuzz.

My blog about tech life, including job hunting, is petdance.com.

AIM: petdance

Twitter: petdance, beyondgrep and perlbuzz

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How do I set a variable to the output of a command in Bash?
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How do I add an empty directory to a Git repository?
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How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?
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How can I sanitize user input with PHP?
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How do I tell a senior programmer that I disagree with him
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How can I speed up my Perl program?
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Is Linux ruining my chance at a good software engineering career?
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How do I tell a senior programmer that you disagree with him
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Is Linux ruining my chance at a good software engineering career?
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Regex to check for at least 3 characters?
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Determine Oracle null == null
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Seriously, should I write bad PHP code?
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Use grep --exclude/--include syntax to not grep through certain files
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How can I format my grep output to show line numbers at the end of the line, and also the hit count?
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What Linux/Unix commands are outdated and have powerful alternatives?
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How to truncate long matching lines returned by grep or ack
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How do I find files that do not contain a given string pattern?
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50
What is the difference between ++i and i++?
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Do you use NULL or 0 (zero) for pointers in C++?
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What is .gitignore?
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45
How to truncate a string to a specific length in perl?
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PHP array: count or sizeof?
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41
Fastest way to convert string to integer in PHP
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41
How can I extract URL and link text from HTML in Perl?
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41
Which costs more while looping; assignment or an if-statement?
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38
How do you make Vim unhighlight what you searched for?
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37
Using Divs to display table-like data
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35
How do you count your Lines of Code?
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34
What is a practical use for PHP's sleep()?
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How can I prevent SQL injection in PHP?
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