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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray among friends, is a high-quality freeware tool for rendering photorealistic three-dimensional graphics. This is a "getting-started" tutorial for those completely unfamiliar with POV-Ray.

Warning: The regular expressions contained in this article are of some length and quite illegible to the inexperienced. They can, however, be extremely useful and time-saving if you are trying to add structure to or search through large text documents. Proceed with caution.

CVS is a Version Control System which helps multiple developers manage software projects. In this third part I'll show the details of CVS repository management, that is creating a new CVS repository, importing sources and handling CVS modules. Part 1, Part 2.

CVS is a Version Control System which helps multiple developers manage software projects. In this second part I'll show the basics of committing your changes to a project, adding new files, creating patches and explaining version numbers. For those of you who missed the first part you can read it here.

Have you ever been in a situation where you have to replace one or two words in many text files. As a programmer or system administrator I'm sure you have been in a situation when even Emacs' search and replace command feels like doing a lot of repetative tasks. This small tutorial will show the power of Perl with just a line of code.

CVS is a Version Control System which helps multiple developers manage software projects. I'll not discuss whether or not CVS is the best choice over other free and commercial Version Control Systems, I'll instead show how CVS is used and give some small tips. This first part deals with setting up CVS locally, checking out a project and getting updates.

This article will give you an introduction to the world of regular expressions. I'll start off with explaining what regular expressions are and introduce it's syntax, then some examples with varying complexity and last a list of tools which use regular expressions.