Jason Antonacci: Clever Guy

FastStone Capture  is a lightweight screen capture tool that saves images and/or video (yes!). I used it to generate still images for a Red Hat Linux graphical install tutorial and a video for adding services to Barracuda Web Application Firewall.  It was easy to use and produced good results for both projects.   FastStone Capture is available with free demo period or a license is less than $20.  An outstanding value. URI: http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

Understanding your objective - both as a concept and as implemented within the system is critical. Knowing a command exists or how it can be applied is next in importance. Remembering the exact parameters or syntax is normally then trivial. Command documentation is normally close at hand. Also, (re)verifying your assumptions (or recollections) is always a wise decision.

A developer asked me how I was scripting an integration task.  I replied PERL, then he smiled and said, "How quaint.".  There were platform limitations that made PERL or Java the only choices in that situation. So I ask you, is PERL "quaint" ? What language do you use for scripting and why? What language would you use if you would/could/had-to change? I prefer to recycle code rather than start fresh.  PERL and Java both being cross platform increases my chances to do that.  However I have always had Java version incompatibility issues as a user (not a developer) and the litany of security issues does not inspire confidence.  The latest TIOBE survey shows PERL and Java both holding steady, yet Java has a commanding lead at 17% to Perl's 2%.  Using the native CLI is frequently the fastest means to an end.  BASH is fantastic for UNIX/Linux and even on Cygwin at times.  I use BASH extensively for UNIX/Linux administration tasks.  There are some PERL one-lin