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Category: Programming

Programmatically Validate Addresses with the UPS Developer Kit, Tracking Integration

Posted on May 15, 2022January 6, 2023 by tommy

If you have an e-commerce website, you can validate shipping addresses on the front end to reduce delays and minimize costly returns due to bad addresses. Going further, you can also script and automate address validation for batch imports into UPS Worldship. This process will only apply to addresses in the United States, since UPS…

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Control Two Independent Stepper Motors with an Arduino

Posted on July 31, 2021January 18, 2023 by tommy

I work with stepper motors a lot. My projects typically include multiple motors running off of a single microcontroller. Everything is great when you’re running all of them at the same speed. But what if you need each motor to run at a different speed? at a different time? or you need to do something…

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Integrating PayPal with Perl

Posted on November 3, 2019November 10, 2019 by tommy

Story time… In 2013, the company I work for acquired another company and everything that came with it. They had an e-commerce website using PayPal as the payment processor. It was an outdated site that needed work on both the front and back ends, but we were reluctant to touch it since it wasn’t broken….

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Creating PDF’s with Perl

Posted on April 14, 2019June 3, 2022 by tommy

I’ve long been a user of PDF::API2, a module available for Perl. I use it everyday at work and along with a few other modules, it has made Perl an invaluable tool for me. Being able to generate PDF’s for reports and documents allow for a bevy of automation shortcuts where traditional Data Merging, or…

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    May 15, 2022
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