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Recently, I was tasked with migrating a Subversion (SVN) server to Git. I immediately started searching for direct import tools and found suggestions like svn2git and subGit.

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It’s been a while since I was active in the blogging world and related communities, and I thought it was time to start a project like this again. This project will serve as a repository of experiences and tips in programming and systems.

With the recent release of Debian as a stable version, Debian 8 has been announced. The codename for Debian 8 is “Jessie” and it was scheduled to be released during 2015. The Debian Jessie repositories still contain packages available for Debian Wheezy, and the Security-updates repository for Jessie is not yet maintained by the official Debian team.

As an Arch Linux user for a few years, I encountered the need to install packages available in the AUR (Arch User Repository). However, installing software from the AUR can be a bit time-consuming, so I needed to find a viable alternative that could manage installations both from the AUR and the official repositories.

This time, I will talk about comparison operators, string operators, and arithmetic operators. What are they and what are they used for? Well, that will be the focus of this tutorial. Without further delay, let’s get started.

Here comes another article about Perl. In this one, I’ll teach you how to use one of the most commonly used control structures in programming: the “if..else” statement, as well as its more complex form, “if..elsif”. This control structure is used to manage the flow of data in a program — that is, if a condition is true, it performs one action; if it’s false, it performs another.

In Perl, there are only three types of variables: hashes, scalars, and arrays. Declaring variables in Perl is somewhat different from most common programming languages.

Many of you have heard about Perl and wanted to learn it, but then wondered how to get started or what Perl is really used for. Thinking about these questions, I created this series to show you how to do some things in Perl, explain some useful functions, and cover other important topics.

This article is divided into three parts:

• What is Perl?
• What do you need to run Perl?
• Introduction to basic concepts.

What is Perl?

The Perl programming language was developed in 1987 by Larry Wall and has served as the foundation for many modern programming languages like JavaScript, Ruby, and others. Perl is widely used by system administrators, hackers, crackers, and web developers. Its main strengths are:

Many of you have probably come across these two terms and wondered what they are and what functions they serve. Both are processes exclusive to UNIX-like systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, among others.

Many of you have probably heard of Python and wondered how to start programming in it. In this article, I will explain some basic Python concepts.

To begin, I will use the well-known “Hello World” program, which is the classic first program in all programming languages.

Almost a week after the talk took place, I finally found some time to write a quick summary of the event and how it went.

I’ll start by introducing myself. My name is Rubem Mota, an unusual name, I must say.

I completed a technological course in IT and I’m an avid fan of music, firefighting, anime, and Magic: The Gathering. In recent times, I’ve developed a growing interest in programming, which first sparked during my studies.

I intend to use this blog as a portfolio and as a journal for theories and ideas, as well as to share tutorials, news, articles on various topics, and more.