Request Tracker
If you’ve ever had to do user support, then you’ll be familiar with the following scenario: A question comes in from a user, and you write an e-mail reply. However, by the time you’ve hit “send,” another member of…
Lightweight Languages
What happens if you get a bunch of academic computer scientists and implementors of languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Curl, and lock them into a room for a day? Bringing together the academic and commercial sides of…
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Parsing Protein Domains with Perl
The Perl programming language is popular with biologists because of its practicality. In my book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, I demonstrate how many of the things biologists want to write programs for are readily-even enjoyably-accomplished with Perl. My book…
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Create RSS channels from HTML news sites
Even if you haven’t heard of the RSS acronym before, you’re likely to have used RSS in the past. Whether through the slashboxes at slashdot or our own news summary at use.perl.org, the premise remains the same - RSS,…
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Object-Oriented Perl
I’ve recently started learning to play the game of Go. Go and Perl have many things in common - the basic stuff of which they are made, the rules of the game, are relatively simple, and hide an amazing…
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The Lighter Side of CPAN
Programming can be a stressful game. We sit at our machines, day in, day out, endlessly staring at a monitor fathoming where that last devious bug has buried itself. It’s not surprising then that sometimes it gets to be…
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Perl 6 : Not Just For Damians
London.pm technical meetings are always inspiring events with top notch speakers. At our most recent gathering Richard Clamp and Mark Fowler gave us “Wax::On, Wax::Off - how to become a Perl sensei”; Paul Mison showed us how to make…
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This Week on p5p 2001/10/21
This fortnight on perl5-porters (08-21 October 2001) Notes This Week on P5P 5.8.0 TODO POD Testing ${^TAINT} AUTOLOAD and packages B::Parrot Miscellaneous Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is…
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Building a Large-scale E-commerce Site with Apache and mod_perl
Common Myths Table of Contents Roll Your Own Application Server Case Study: eToys.com Apache::PerlRun to the Rescue Planning the New Architecture Surviving Christmas 2000 The Architecture Proxy Servers Application Servers …
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Filtering Mail with PerlMx
Introduction PerlMx is a utility by ActiveState that allows Perl programs to interface with Sendmail connections. It’s quite a powerful tool, and once installed, it’s very easy to use. This article will detail how to install and setup PerlMx,…
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This Week on p5p 2001/10/07
Notes This Week on P5P chromatic Call for PerlIO bugs Attributes are broken Multiple FETCHes Code cleanups Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes…
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Exegesis 3
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 3 for the current design information. Diamond lives (context-aware); Underscore space means concatenate; fat comma means pair; A pre-star will flatten; colon-equals will…
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Apocalypse 3
Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 03 for the latest information. Table of Contents RFC 025: Operators: Multiway comparisons RFC 320: Allow grouping of -X file tests…
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Asymmetric Cryptography in Perl
Introduction Symmetric cryptography allows Alice to exchange secret messages with Bob over the network, but only after they have shared a secret key. If Alice and Bob don’t live within commutable distance, or are unable to meet in person…
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Parrot : Some Assembly Required
Last week, the first public version of Parrot was released. This week, we’re going to take a close look at what Parrot is, how you can get hold of it and play with it, and what we intend for…
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wxPerl: Another GUI for Perl
wxPerl? If you don’t just use Perl for creating CGI scripts, you’ll probably have to create some kind of front-end for your applications sooner or later. You might use the Curses library, but if you want a nice GUI, you…
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This Week on Perl 6 (2 - 8 September 2001)
Notes This Week in Perl 6 News %MY:: Goodness Prototypes Documents Released Math Functions To Add Parroty Bits You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk….
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Changing Hash Behaviour with tie
Introduction In my experience, hashes are just about the most useful built-in datatype that Perl has. They are useful for so many things - from simple lookup tables to complex data structures. And, of course, most Perl Objects have…
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This Week on p5p 2001/09/03
Notes This Week on P5P Testing, testing Coderef-in-@INC Default random seed local chdir() File::Spec Smoking! Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and…
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This Week on Perl 6 (26 August - 1 September 2001)
Notes This Week in Perl 6 News Notes Expunge Implicit @_ Passing Finalization and Deterministic Destruction Multiple Dispatch on Objects Program Metadata ! versus >= Parroty Bits Last Words You can…
