Using CPAN on Win32 ActivePerl
Christian Walde demonstrates that even ActivePerl users on Windows can use CPAN-out of the box.
Painless Windows Module Installation with PPM
I have recently been working on an installation package for the Microsoft Windows series of operating systems (Windows 2000 and newer). One of the primary components of this installation package is the installation of ActiveState’s distribution of Perl, known…
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Automated GUI Testing
You use Perl at work. Sometimes you are unhappy because there is one application you always have to click on and fill all those input boxes. It’s very boring. Why not let Perl do that while you go grab…
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Manipulating Word Documents with Perl
In a recent lightning article, Customizing Emacs with Perl, Bob DuCharme explained how to use the Emacs shell-command-on-region function to invoke a Perl script on a marked region of text. Bob writes that he was reluctant to invest the…
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Automating Windows Applications with Win32::OLE
Getting My Feet Wet My first glimpse of the Internet happened at Lotus Development somewhere around 1994. A Mosaic demonstration duly impressed me. A few months later, working at a small Cambridge, MA company called Dataware brought me closer…
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Automating Windows (DNS) with Perl
Driving Windows DNS Server If you happen to manage a DNS server running on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 with more than just a couple of dozen resource records on it, you’ve probably already hit the limits of the MMC…
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Five Tips for .NET Programming in Perl
Randy Ray is coauthor of Programming Web Services with Perl Abstract: One of the most common categories of questions on the SOAP::Lite mailing list is how to get Perl SOAP applications to work with .NET services. It’s not that…
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A Perl Hacker's Foray into .NET
No, I haven’t sold out; I haven’t gone over to the dark side; I haven’t been bought. I’m one of the last people to be using closed-source software by choice. But one of the traits of any self-respecting hacker…
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What every Perl programmer needs to know about .NET
.NET is the latest hype blitz from Microsoft (and you thought it was just a domain). If your eyes are glazing over or you’re tempted to write it off as marketing speak, read on. Although Microsoft is loath to…
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A Zero Cost Solution
Creating a Task Tracking System For $0 in Licensing Fees, Hardware, and Software Costs CONEXANT (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems) Supply Chain Management Planning and Execution Systems needed a way to keep track of in-house tasks. When associate departments requested…
