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10-24-2010

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I have realized that most successful/semi-productive people are those that are a hybrid between technically proficient in Visualbasic/Access while at the same time in the corporate sphere, meaning Powerpoints and "management".

This is a pretty microsoft related question for a unix forum. And I would call myself pretty successful and productive in my role without having ever layed my hands on VB and access Smilie

But anyways ...

No matter what you use, I think it is always a question of how well do you know the tools you would need to support your technology - and if the technology suits to your business. You cannot support any technology without knowing how to support it. You for example cannot administer unix without knowing how to use the shell commands ...

We of course could tell you now learn any of the things you mentioned above - or all of them ... but we do not know anything about your role.

As a unix person, my first thought was: migrate to another DB like i.e. mysql or oracle or maybe domino ... and learn sql or whatever supporting technology you need to maintain it. If you are stuck with MS backoffice products than there will be no way around learning vb ... you cannot maintain a product properly that you do not know.

But ask yourself if it is worth the effort - or could another technology maybe support your business needs in a better way and adressing your performance issues would be a great opportunity to drive the change - and this could be a technology you already know?

And - knowing what you are doing will always set you positive apart from the crowd Smilie

There are simply too many people out there that do not know what they are doing ...

Just my 2 cents
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NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses - Use named character classes instead of explicit character lists.

AFFILIATION

       This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

       This policy is not for everyone!  If you are working in pure ASCII, then disable it now or you may see some false violations.

       On the other hand many of us are working in a multilingual world with an extended character set, probably Unicode.  In that world, patterns
       like "m/[A-Z]/" can be a source of bugs when you really meant "m/p{IsUpper}/".	This policy catches a selection of possible incorrect
       character class usage.

       Specifically, the patterns are:

       "[	
f ]" vs. "s"

       "[	
 ]" vs. "s"   (because many people forget "f")

       "[A-Za-z0-9_]" vs. "w"

       "[A-Za-z]" vs. "p{IsAlphabetic}"

       "[A-Z]" vs. "p{IsUpper}"

       "[a-z]" vs. "p{IsLower}"

       "[0-9]" vs. "d"

       "[^w]" vs. "W"

       "[^s]" vs. "S"

CONFIGURATION

       This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

CREDITS

       Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan.  Many rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license
       can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module

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