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…
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…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 8-21, 2005
Surprise! It’s me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week’s summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I’m not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week…
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Understanding and Using Iterators
The purpose of this tutorial is to give a general overview of what iterators are, why they are useful, how to build them, and things to consider to avoid common pitfalls. I intend to give the reader enough information…
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Independently Parsing Perl
A few years into my programming career, I found myself involved in a somewhat unusual web project for an enormous global IT company. Due to some odd platform issues, we could write the intranet half of the project only…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 1-7, 2005
Crumbs. I’ve remembered to write the summary this week. Now if I can just remember to bill O’Reilly for, err, 2003’s summaries. Heck, it’s not like waiting for the dollar to get stronger has paid off. Ah well, no…
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This Week in Perl 6, May 25, 2005-May 31, 2005
All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by Aliya’s new friends, Masha Nannifer and Philippe, and my own secret running joke. Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compiler. Perl 6 Compiler Method Chaining Alex…
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This Week in Perl 6, May 18 - 24, 2005
Note to self: It’s generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on the day you return from holiday. It’s especially not a good idea to fail to check that it didn’t completely and utterly radish your Postfix…
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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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Build a Wireless Gateway with Perl
You have set up and configured various wireless access devices, but could not find one that included all of the features you needed. You could wait for a firmware upgrade from your manufacturer, hoping that they will include the…
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This Week in Perl 6, May 3, 2005 - May 17, 2005
All~ Welcome ot another fortnight’s summary. Wouldn’t it just figure that I can’t think of anything sufficiently non-sequiterish to amuse myself. Perhaps I need a running gag like Leon Brocard or chromatic’s cummingesque capitalization. Maybe I should start one…
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Inside YAPC::NA 2005
An interview with Richard Dice, who helped organize Perl’s YAPC::NA 2005 in Toronto.
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Massive Data Aggregation with Perl
This article is a case study of the use of Perl and XML/RDF technologies to channel disparate sources of data into a semi-structured repository. This repository helped to build structured OLAP warehouses by mining an RDF repository with SAX…
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This Week in Perl 6, April 26 - May 3, 2005
All, Welcome to another week’s summary. This week I shall endeavor not to delete my summary accidentally or destroy the world. Here we go with p6c. Perl 6 Compilers Implicit $_ on for Loops Kiran Kumar found a bug…
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This Week in Perl 6, April 20 - 26, 2005
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 2005-04-26 It’s my turn again. What fun. “What,” I hear you all ask, “has been going on in the crazy, mixed-up world of Perl 6 design and development?” Read this summary…
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People Behind Perl: brian d foy
An interview with long-time Perl programmer and author, brian d foy. His book Mastering Perl recently came out in its second edition.
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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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This Week in Perl 6, April 12 - 19, 2005
All~ Sadly, a slip of the mouse caused me to delete a partially completed summary, so I am going to push ahead on the rewrite without a witty intro. Feel free to make one up for yourself involving stuffed…
