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Hey folks! I’d like to announce that I’ve debuted on suite101.com. My first article there was how to optimize your job hunting using RSS feeds. Check out the article here.

The cool thing about blogging software is that it shows the blogger all sorts of interesting information, such as the number of visitors, or the search string that led them to the blog. I see lots of interesting search strings, but I keep wondering if the users actually found what they were looking for. That [...]

Seriously – **DON’T!** (did I stress that enough?) Not unless you’ve tested it well on a non-production machine. It’s been known to break themes and plugins. My Advertising Manager plugin is still broken as of this writing, and there’s no automatic downgrading. If you were hasty like me and ended up getting in trouble with [...]

Folks, I decided to change the looks of my blog. I’m using Atahualpa theme which is simply amazing. There are over 200 customization options which allow you to do practically anything you want. If you are wondering about the logo, it is one of Pablo Picasso’s drawings. I chose it because of its simplicity, which [...]

On my previous post, I talked about MySQL functionality “insert into … on duplicate key update” which I found really cool. It has since been the most popular of my messages (although nobody leaves any comments), so I guess I’ll start talking more about MySQL… Don’t forget to keep an eye out for fresh Perl [...]

Welcome to Vinny’s Technical Corner. Here you’ll find some (hopefully) interesting posts regarding the *nix world, general programming techniques, Perl, and other languages – web oriented and not. I’ll try to keep the posts neatly organized in categories, for programming newbies to rocket scientists – in case there’s one out there who would like to [...]