User since: Feb 28, 2009 at 20:01 UTC Last here: May 14, 2013 at 17:38 UTC (4 days ago) Experience: 8022 Level: Parson (16) Writeups: 890 Location: Hamburg, Germany User's localtime: May 19, 2013 at 00:11 CEST Scratchpad: View

About me:

• I'm a graduate engineer (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)), developing web-based perl applications on Linux and Windows servers since 1999.
• I wrote the initial Unicode-Patch for DBD::ODBC, which was included in DBD::ODBC 1.14 and improved since then.
• I'm too lazy to write more about me ...

Useful Postings

• Passing arguments to programs on Unix and Windows: Re^3: Perl Rename
• Useless encryption of interpreted languages: Re: Protection for Perl S‎crip‎ts, Re^2: Where should I have configuration information in a file or database
• Safe image upload: Re^2: Need a RegExp for Images
• Input validation, protecting foreign PCs: Re^2: security: making sure graphics uploaded by users are safe
• Signals on Windows: Re: Signals in Strawberry Perl: Name or number? and Re: Handling killing the perl process
• DBI and placeholders: Re: Counting rows Sqlite, Re^2: Massive Memory Leak, Re^5: Variable interpolation in a file to be read in
• True and false constants: Re: Help Perl Program - I have compilation errors don't know where
• Clean code: Re: Best practices - if any?
• Learning the rules: Re^3: String in array
• Storing sensitive information: Re^2: best way to store login information for a perl s‎crip‎t?
• SQL Server single active statement: Re^2: Can i execute two queries connecting to same DB at a time.
• Secure access to Unix servers: Re^2: Editing remote *nix files from Windows?
• Optimizing servers: Re^5: TCP socket and fork
• Oracle Environment: Re^3: Connecting to Oracle DB using DBI from CGI s‎crip‎t
• Windows and stat(): Re^3: Inline.pm and untainting
• Insecure code in config files: Re^2: conf file in Perl syntax
• Find the name of a variable: Re: Can you find the name of a variable?
• fork(), exec(), signals: Re^3: SIG{INT} not handling CTRL-C ???
• Distributing Perl apps on Windows: Re: How do you distribute your Perl application to your customers?
• MS/OO Office file formats: Re: Excel 2007 Support, Re^2: OLE and WORD docs
• DBI and Unicode: Re: A puzzled garbage character issues by use Perl-DBI
• HTTP Status Codes: Re^3: Doing a proper 404 redirect
• Unicode transition problems: Re^7: any use of 'use locale'? (source encoding)
• Avoiding file storage in web environments: Re^3: Randomness encountered with CGI Session
• Long Windows Paths: Re^2: Shorten windows paths too long
• Don't use soundex: Re^2: Search for similar strings - to standardise
• Optimizing code: Re: how to quickly parse 50000 html documents?, Re: Minimum Hash keys allocated?, Re^2: web performance 2010
• Start a program without waiting on Windows: Re^2: Perl/Tk System Function Error
• The map trap: Re: Using Number Ranges in a Dispatch Table
• mod_perl vs. FastCGI: Re^3: Misery: trying to get mod_perl working on Windows 2008

Broken Code

• Re^4: Randomness encountered with CGI Session
• Re: Persistent Fault Tolerant SQL (MySQL + DBI) connections!
• Re^5: Unify windows filenames
• Re: Date::Indian module
• Re^2: Advice on style (well, not actually broken code, but Exporter's documentation needs some patches)

Opinion

• Learning learning: Re^2: Reflections on Skills of the Skillful
• IMAPdir: Re: recommended storage format for email messages?
• daemontools: Re^3: Proc::PID::File problem generating pid files, or: does it matter where a pid file lives?, Re^3: How to capture system return code when command launched in the background?, Re: Executing s‎crip‎t in normal/daemon mode and adding start/stop capability
• PostgreSQL: Re^2: What is your favourite Linux or cross-platform database?, Re^2: Perl and Database, Re^2: What is the best Perl library to use to connect and access MSSQL2008 Database from winXP PC?
• strict on by default: Re^2: use strict
• "Write code for me": Re^4: I need help about MP3::Tag and perl s‎crip‎t.

Bookmarks

• Problems with arbitary shell behaviour