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DVK has asked 134 questions and find answers to 412 problems.

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Areas of expertise:

Perl expert (specifically enterprise software development
Sybase (table design, query optimization and stored proc development)
Java (including Reflection and Javascript embedding)

Areas of familiarity:

Web programming (EmbPerl, JSP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
C++
Shell scripting, *nix system administration

DVK questions

Why doesn't my SIGPIPE print the message?
Parsing Parquet files with Perl
What is a good CPAN parser for HTML MS Excel files?
Is there an API to disable/enable a Firefox extension?
When does Perl impose string context?
Why can't I call later-defined sub in BEGIN block even with forward declaration?
Get the maximum values of column B per each distinct value of column A
What is the most readable regex to extract a second word with no trailing spaces from comma-separated string?
Can actual Perl Regular Expressions be implemented in Java via existing library?
Was there something in Cobol intrinsically making it susceptible to Y2K issues?

DVK answers

Making a Perl script detect changes in a separate config module also in Perl
Perl count log entries per second using a hash of a hash of ararys
Correctly Programming in Perl CGI / Accessing the same data from differ perl cgi files
In perl, checking an array for a value and removing it if exists for each value of another array
Should packages be 'use'd globally or from functions that need them?
Mysql BETWEEN clause being ignored. No syntax error
Using XML::LibXML in Perl to alter XML file: newline chars are Unix, not Windows
Long check list ui pattern for web
What are the advantages of developing applications in C++ as compared to managed languages?
Perl: Testing an input reader?