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Seems I run into another weird-ass limitation on this server every day. You might remember I had trouble earlier executing anything at all. I fixed that. Then I had trouble writing to a directory for ...

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In the world of programming languages, sometimes you don’t need the overhead and performance of Java, C#, C++ and other power tools. Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of ...

Chances are, you do some boring, repetitive data-related tasks at work — ones a computer could easily do, if only it was told how. “At one desk, a tester is entering test data into a database by hand.

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