Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...

Creating Web pages can be an exciting experience; after all, the Web is on the cutting edge when it comes to publishing technology. But when you have to update dozens of lines of code manually to make ...

XML has become the standard technology in information exchange, but many applications still use more primitive ways to import and export data. One such technique is based on text files containing ...

One of the great things about being a book and magazine writer and the founder of a Web site is that I can keep myself in touch with thousands of developers. And even when I don't receive e-mails, I ...

It was a fine spring afternoon in 1867. Mr. James Legge was just back from China and had settled back into his home in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. When he turned on his SteamBook Pro to check for mail ...

You know the maxim, “Give a man to fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime”? A similar adage applies to anyone who spends a lot of time working with text on their ...