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Monday, October 25. 2010
Perl Custom Date Parsing
I was recently asked how to do custom date parsing in Perl, specifically for a date in the format mmddyyyy. I work with dates frequently in Java, so I am familiar with using SimpleDateFormat objects to parse dates in this manner. The Perl equivalent is Date::Manip::Date.
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Wednesday, October 13. 2010
Debconf 10
In August I attended Debconf 10. My primary goals were to learn more about the current status of the Debian community, particularly in the face of Ubuntu's rise to popularity, and to fix the package xtrkcad for Debian, which used an outdated library.
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