Perl Needs Better Tools
Perl is in danger of becoming a fading language-new programmers are learning Java and Python in college, and companies like Google hardly use Perl at all. If you are afraid that Perl may be in danger of becoming irrelevant…
This Week in Perl 6, August 17-23, 2005
All- Welcome to another Monday summary, which hopefully provides some evidence that Mondays can get better. It always feels like writing summaries is an uphill battle, so perhaps I should switch to writing about Perl 6 Language first and…
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Parsing iCal Data
One of the attributes of a killer application is that it does something cool: it allows you to view or organize information in new and interesting ways, saves you time, or helps you win that auction bid. Yet one…
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This Week in Perl 6, Through August 14, 2005
As you will note from the date in the title, it’s been a short week. We’re switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to make life easier for the Perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being…
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Important Notice for Perl.com Readers About O'Reilly RSS and Atom Feeds
O’Reilly Media, Inc. is rolling out a new syndication mechanism that provides greater control over the content we publish online. You’ll notice some improvements immediately, such as better standards compliance, graphical tiles accompanying article descriptions, and enclosure support for podcatching…
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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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This Week in Perl 6, August 2-9, 2005
All- Welcome to another summary, brought to you by Chinese food. The attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that…
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This Week in Perl 6, through August 2, 2005
In case you were wondering, Darwin ports didn’t work its magic and I still don’t have a working Haskell compiler. Thank Juerd for feather, even if I did have to turn my laptop upside down to read the MOTD….
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Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 4
This article is the fourth in a series aimed at building a full 3D engine in Perl. The first article started with basic program structure and worked up to displaying a simple depth-buffered scene in an OpenGL window. The…
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Porting Test::Builder to Perl 6
Pugs let real people write real Perl 6 code. This article presents a case study of porting Perl’s venerable Test::Builder to Perl 6.
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This Week in Perl 6, July 20-26, 2005
All- Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by microwaved Chinese food and air conditioning. I love the modern era. Without further ado, I bring you: Perl 6 Compilers PxPerl Grégoire Péan announced the release of PxPerl…
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An Introduction to Test::MockDBI
Prelude How do you test DBI programs: Without having to modify your current program code or environment settings? Without having to set up multiple test databases? Without separating your test data from your test code? With tests for every…
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This Week in Perl 6, July 13-19, 2005
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by the words "displacement" and "activity." So far today, I’ve caught up with everything unread in NetNewsWire, my Flickr groups, every other mailing list I’m subscribed to, and completed about…
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Ten Essential Development Practices
The following ten tips come from Perl Best Practices, a new book of Perl coding and development guidelines by Damian Conway. 1. Design the Module’s Interface First The most important aspect of any module is not how it implements…
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This Week in Perl 6, July 5-12, 2005
All- Welcome to another summary from the frog house, a house so green you can see it from outer space (according to Google Earth). Perl 6 Compiler Building Pugs Workaround Sam Vilain posted a useful workaround to the error…
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Building Navigation Menus
Navigation menus are a group of links given at one side of the page that allows users to navigate to different places of a website. Navigation menus allow site visitors to explore other pages of the site and to…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 29-July 5, 2005
My, doesn’t time fly? Another fortnight gone and another summary to write. It’s a hard life, I tell you! This Week in perl6-compiler Where’s Everyone Gone? It seems that most of the Perl 6 compiler development discussions occur at…
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Annotating CPAN
AnnoCPAN is a new website that shows the documentation for every Perl module available on CPAN and allows anyone to post annotations in the margins of the documents. The notes are public, so everyone can read and reuse them…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 21-28, 2005
All- Long time no see … err, write … uh, read … um … this. Yeah, long time no this. As Piers hinted, two weeks ago I moved. Moving sucks. For those of you who care, I am still…
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Data Munging with Sprog
We’ve all been there-a data translation problem rears its head and you reach for your toolkit of Perl snippets. It might involve parsing a CSV file, extracting MIME attachments, generating bulk SQL insert statements, or scraping data from a…
