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Pragmas in perl are specific instructions that we can embed in Perl code, depending on our needs and preferences, that allow our scripts to be compiled and behave differently than they would otherwise. In this article, we look at how pragmas work. By Dan Ragle. 0508

Vandenbrink provides a tool called VPNSCAN for auditing remote IP addresses for compliance with an existing remote access policy.

Thompson reviews several freely available documents that can help with managing IT security.

Aras, a small vendor of product life-cycle management software, went open source last year — but only on Windows, and via a Microsoft license.

When the worst-case scenario actually happens, downloading the right rescue disc can save your hide -- and your data.

This article walks you through the process of building a simple .net command-line application that is designed to be scheduled to execute. The sample application will send an HTTP request to a web server and send the returned HTML as the body of an email message. Once the application is complete, the article will examine how to schedule it to run using Windows Scheduled Tasks.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!

Now non-programmers can build enterprise-class apps fast and on the cheap.

The funky syntax of a function's return type isn't just unreadable in many cases?it's also a common source of maintenance problems. However, with the new decltype operator your functions will look much cleaner and easier to maintain.

What does the future hold for concurrency? What will happen to the tools and techniques around concurrent programming? In part two of our series, concurrency guru Herb Sutter talks about these issues and what developers need to be reading to understand concurrency.