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Dave�Cross�

Dave Cross is the owner of Magnum Solutions Ltd, a London-based Perl consultancy. He was also the founder of london.pm. His book Data Munging with Perl has just been published by Manning.

Perl Command-Line Options
After looking at special variables, Dave Cross now casts his eye over the impressive range of functionality available from simple command-line options to the Perl interpreter. [Aug 10, 2004]

Perl's Special Variables
Dave Cross goes back to basics to show how using Perl's special variables can tidy up file-handling code. [Jun 18, 2004]

How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ...
When Dave Cross, Andy Wardley, and Darren Chamberlain got together to write the Perl Template Toolkit book, they decided to write it in Plain Old Documentation. Dave shows us how the Template Toolkit itself transformed that for publication. [Jan 30, 2004]

Overloading
C++ and Haskell do it, Java and Lisp don't; Python does it, and Ruby is almost built on it. What is the allure of operator overloading, and how does it affect Perl programmers? Dave Cross brings us an introduction to overload.pm and the Perl overloading mechanism. [Jul 22, 2003]

Finding CGI Scripts
Dave Cross explains what to watch out for when choosing CGI scripts to run on your server, and announces a new best-of-breed project for CGI scripting. [Jan 23, 2002]

Changing Hash Behaviour with tie
Hashes are one of the most useful data structures Perl provides, but did you know you can make them even more useful by changing the way they work? Dave Cross shows us how it's done [Sep 4, 2001]

Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit
Dave Cross explains why you should add the Template Toolkit to your installation of Perl and why it is useful for more than just dynamic web pages. [Jan 23, 2001]