eBooks from Richard Foley
All books and eBooks by Richard Foley:
Perl Debugger Pocket Ref...
Chapter 1 Perl Debugger Pocket Reference What Is the Perl Debugger? In the ideal world, every program would be perfect the first time it is written. In reality, however, even the best program- mers make mistakes or forget to provide for all situations. The Perl debugger is an application you can use to follow the logic of a Perl program while it is being executed, saving you time and frustration in tracking down bugs in your programs. With the Perl debugger, you can stop the program at selected points, print and modify the contents of variables, and print stack traces out to see what has been called from where. This book describes every command, option, and variable of the Perl debugger. Any intermediate to advanced Perl pro- grammer should be familiar with the debugger to save time and frustration while debugging their programs. Why Use the Debugger? There are many
(2004)
RT Essentials
by Jesse Vincent, Robert Spier, Dave Rolsky, Darren Chamb..., and Richard Foley
Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 What Is Ticketing? If your organization is anything like any of ours, there’s always a lot of stuff to do. Vendors need to get paid. Customers need to get invoiced. Staff need to do work for customers. Sales inquiries need to be answered. Bugs in hard- or software need to be fixed, and everyone needs to know that they have been fixed. Somebody needs to take out the garbage. And at the end of the day, you’ve got to know who wanted what, who did it, when it got done, and most importantly what remains undone. That’s where a ticketing system comes in. Why “Ticket”? The convention is to call each request or piece of work a Ticket. When a new thing comes into the system, we give it a virtual slip of paper with a number, much like the ticket for checking your coat at
(2007)

