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DVK has asked 136 questions and find answers to 423 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 substitution in list context return a list of captures?
How can I create a DIV that expands UP TO a height and then shows a scrollbar?
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?

DVK answers

Is there a good reason why I shouldn't be mixing POST and GET parameters in a CGI query?
How to suppress arbitrary warn/error messages from DBI?
Capturing exit status from STDIN in Perl
How can I get all local extrema in Perl without rolling my own?
Guidelines for GUI design for a risk analysis app [closed]
perl invokes shell-- interrupt ^C stops the shell, not the perl
How to report a CPAN module bug
SQL Query Count on Column Information
Perl script (or anything) to total up CSV column
Is there any technology to kill the user login session if user close the browser?