Tag Archives: perl

Automation Leveraging NSX REST API Guide

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Humair

I also published this blog post about automation leveraging the NSX REST API on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog on June 21, 2016. The full blog post is provided below and can also be seen on the VMware NSX … Continue reading →

Posted in APIs/SDKs, Java, Labs, Networking, Perl, Programming Languages, Python, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware NSX REST API | Tagged Ansible, automation, cloud management tools, cURL, Go, Java, Network Virtualization, NSX, NSX automation, NSX network virtualization, NSX REST API, NSX REST API Guide, NSX-V, perl, Postman, PowerShell, programming language frameworks, Python, REST Client, REST client libraries, VMware NSX, VMware NSX network virtualization, VMware NSX-V, VMware vRealize Orchestrator, VMware vRO, vRealize Orchestrator, vRO | Leave a comment

Monitoring VMware NSX SpoofGuard with REST API and Perl

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Humair

I also published this blog post about monitoring VMware NSX SpoofGuard with REST API and Perl on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog on June 17, 2016. The full blog post is provided below and can also be seen on … Continue reading →

Posted in Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Perl, Programming Languages, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware | Tagged Active IP Addresses, Automating VMware NSX Security, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, CPAN, Data::Validate::IP, Data::Validate::IP library, IP Address Spoofing, IP Addresses Pending Review, IP spoofing, NSX, NSX REST API, NSX REST API and Perl, NSX SpoofGuard, perl, Perl REST client, Perl REST client module/library, REST API, REST API and Perl, REST:Client, REST:Client library, REST:Client module, SpoofGuard, SpoofGuard Active IP Addresses, SpoofGuard Active Virtual NICs, SpoofGuard IP Addresses, SpoofGuard IP Addresses Pending Review, SpoofGuard states, spoofing, vmware, VMware NSX, XML, XML:Simple, XMLin | Leave a comment

Security, Art of Hacking, & the Worst 2014 Security Breaches

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Humair

Security is hot; no doubt about it. Consider the fact that between 2011 and 2013, venture investors put nearly $3 billion into cyber security companies, resulting in new funding for some 300 firms (Source: Thomson Reuters). Worldwide security software revenue … Continue reading →

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Creator of Perl, Larry Wall, on Programming Languages

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Humair

Creator of Perl, Larry Wall, when asked, “What are the five programming languages everyone, even non-programmers, should know about and why?”:

Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology | Tagged Creator of Perl, Larry Wall, perl, Programming Languages | Leave a comment

Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Humair

One of my favorite development tools at an unbelievably low price – FREE! Can’t get much better than that. Download ‘Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers’ and give it a try. If you are not much of a Java/J2EE programmer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, J2EE, Java, Perl, Programming Languages, Python, Technology | Tagged C, C IDE, coding, Eclipse, Eclipse 4.2, Eclipse 4.2 SR2, Eclipse Juno, Eclipse Juno 4.2, Eclipse Juno 4.2 SR2, eclipse.org, IDE, Java, Java IDE, Juno, Juno 4.2, Juno 4.2 SR2, perl, Perl IDE, Programming Languages, Python, Python IDE | Leave a comment

Perl – Changing the Input Line Separator and Using the “chomp” Function

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Humair

In this blog I demonstrate how you can change the input line separator in Perl and use Perl’s “chomp” function. Note, the input line separator is operating system dependent; see the following prior blog of mine where I discuss this … Continue reading →

Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology | Tagged $/, $/ system variable, change the input line separator, chomp, chomp function, input line separator, input line separator system variable, input line separator variable, perl, perl input line separator system variable, perl input line separator variable, remove newline, remove newline character | Leave a comment

Perl – Uppercase to Lowercase Conversion via the Translation Operator

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Humair

Perl’s translation operator provides a way to substitute one group of characters for another. In the below script I demonstrate how easy it is to use the translation operator to convert standard input from the command prompt from uppercase letters … Continue reading →

Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology | Tagged code, conversion, convert, lc, lc function, perl, perl code, substitute, substitute group of characters, substitution, translation, translation operator, uppercase to lowercase | Leave a comment

Perl – Using Pattern-sequence Memory with Regular Expressions

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Humair

Pattern-sequence memory is very useful when you want to match the same character in several places but don’t care which character you match as long as all occurrences are the same character. For example, the below code matches the date … Continue reading →

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Perl – Obtain the File Size

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Humair

Here is a cool one line Perl script you can use to quickly obtain the file size of a file. The syntax to run the script is “perl [scriptname] [filename]”; in the below example I use the script itself as … Continue reading →

Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology | Tagged -s, file size, file size operator, get file size, perl, perl file size operator, perl get file size | Leave a comment

Perl – Writing the Linux ‘cat’ Utility