Questions about Java, Perl, CGI, Xara? Ask John

CLOSED because I am very busy at this moment. The answers are still on-line, but you can't ask me questions at this moment. When I've more time available I am going to write some small tutorials

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WHY this service? Well, I like to help people with "the craft". Besides I can learn from your questions. After reading my posting statistics in a Dutch newsgroup I decided to move my helping hand to the WWW. This way my answers stay on line and are available to anyone with the same kind of questions.

PROFESSIONAL consultancy and software development is available through my company Castle Amber.

Recent MexIT entries:

04/19 Hacking MexIT
04/18 Lazy Sunday
04/17 Cleaning time
04/16 Fixing the castle
04/15 XML::Twig and exotic fruits
04/14 Perl scripting MexIT
04/13 MP3 and cockroaches
04/12 Redirecting and more memory
04/11 Happy Easter
04/10 Scorpion attack at the dinner table

HOW does it work? Go to the Ask a Question page select a topic and enter your question. Small questions will be replied by email so don't forget to enter a valid email address.

Make sure that you've checked the answers and the FAQs before you Ask a Question.

WHERE can I find the answer? When I consider the answer useful for many people I add it to a web page and you can read it here. Small questions will be replied by email. When I can't answer your question I try to give you pointers so you can continue your search.

TOPICS and answers

The last topic is there to satisfy some curious people. Don't expect an answer to any question on that topic.

Note: Java is not the same as JavaScript. I don't use JavaScript so I can't help you with questions regarding this language.