Every project has to kick off somewhere.  Yep well that's a no brainer.  However, the number of projects that I've seen where the planning step has been omitted is too high.  A throughly planned out project with as many features scoped before you start coding is critical in completing a project.  Whilst projects and their requirements are always fluid, the initial critical scoping is so important. Fail to plan, planning to fail There is no one way to plan.  Yes I've seen...

Regular expressions (regex) are extremely useful in extracting information from any text by searching for one or more matches of a specific search pattern. The basic anchors - ^ and $ expression action ^The matches any string that starts with The end$ matches a string that ends with end ^The end$ exact string match (starts and ends with The end) pragmatic matches any string that has the text pragmatic in it   The basic quantifiers — * + ? and...