CPAN comes with an MP3::Tag module, which provides ready-made tools to read and extract metadata from MP3 files, making it a simple matter to identify the title, artist, and genre of a particular MP3 track. Here is some example code showing how you can use the module to create a categorizing application.

In the traditional waterfall model of software development, the first phase of requirements analysis is also the most important one. There are a number of problems with this theoretical model, and these can cause delays and errors in the rest of the process. This article discusses some of the more common problems that project managers experience during this phase, and suggests possible solutions.

This brief tutorial will show you how to use a PHP 5.x MySQL extension called, MySQL Improved, to implement MySQL-based transactions with PHP.

This brief tutorial focuses on FTP-based file uploads using the PHP-FTP protocol to upload in a two-step process: from your local disk to a Web server and then to an FTP server.

To display the time of day of a different time zone from the local time zone on a Web page it is necessary to perform various temporal calculations and convert local time to destination time.

You can use NcFTP to automate FTP file transfers – here is the step-by-step guide that tells you how.