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Email: perl at dslextreme.com
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The Computer Underground specializes in web/database programming with DATA
manipulation being the main objective. We specialize in providing very
powerful scalable solutions for web/database problems. Special
attention is paid to Linux, Apache, Zope, Perl (mod_perl), Php, Python,
PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
In addition, we have programmers for Visual Basic and MS SQL.
It is typical for The Computer Underground to charge over $100 per hour for its employees. We are upfront to our employees how much of a cut The Computer Underground gets. We do not resist employees being stolen from us, but it has never happened. About graphics. If you want pretty fancy shmacy graphics, we have setup outside graphics art consultants to take care of pretty pictures to dazzle customers. But it is not our objective to do the graphics ourselves. We setup the computers systems (websites and databases) and let the graphics people add stuff to the website. |
These webpages are powered by Bluefish Linux, Perl, Php, PostgreSQL, and Apache. All of the webpages are driven by server side includes, CGI.pm, DBI.pm, Pg.pm, or other scripting resources. The need for GUI editors seems trivial when using ssi. SSI is much easier to use for a real webmaster. Notice how the server side include puts the correct time stamp of any file inside the webpage. Other web servers don't use ssi correctly. A ssi which includes a command or other ssi should have the content executed AFTER it is included -- a lot of other broken web servers don't do this, they execute code before the content is included (which would give you the timestamp of the included file and not the current file for the timestamp below). This is one of the many reasons why Apache is the most popular webserver used by the experts.
We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. [...] I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...] "Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget. "I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for thee." The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day. -- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition