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…
Building Good CPAN Modules
When you are planning to release a module to CPAN, one of your first tasks is figure out what OS, Perl version(s), and other environments you will and will not support. Often, the answers will come from what you…
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This Week in Perl 6, April 4-11, 2005
Whoa! Deja vu! Where’d Matt go? Don’t worry, Matt’s still writing summaries. As you may have noticed, Matt’s been writing summaries every two weeks. Now so am I. Because we love you, we’ve decided to arrange things so I…
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Perl Code Kata: Mocking Objects
The last Perl Code Kata was on DBD::Mock, a mock DBI driver which is useful for testing Perl DBI applications. This Kata delves once again into the world of mock objects, this time using the more general Test::MockObject module….
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, March 22 - April 3, 2005
Perl 6 Language ceil and floor Ingo Blechschmidt wondered if ceil and floor would be in the core. Warnock applies, although Unicode operators would let me define circumfix \lfloor \rfloor (although I only know how to make those symbols…
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More Lightning Articles
Customize Emacs with Perl, debug your programs with line tracing, mock the DBI for testing, and manage buffering effectively-four short articles for Perl programmers.
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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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This Fortnight in Perl 6, March 7 - March 21, 2005
All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight’s summary. I believe this is the highest volume I have ever seen the three lists at simultaneously. Hopefully they will keep it up, because they’re doing good work. To aid the epic endeavor…
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Symbol Table Manipulation
Having almost achieved the state of perfect laziness, one of my favorite modules is Class::DBI::mysql. It makes MySQL database tables seem like classes, and their rows like objects. This completely relieves me from using SQL in most cases. This…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 23 - March 7, 2005
All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary, once again brought to you by chocolate chips. This does have the distinction of being the first summary written on a Mac, so if I break into random swear words, just bear…
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A Plan for Pugs
Autrijus Tang, creator of the Pugs Perl 6 implementation, explains how this project may bring Perl 6 to fruition.
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Perl and Mandrakelinux
Perl programmers have a special reason for choosing Mandrakelinux as their desktop operating system. Mandrakelinux uses Perl for dozens of the graphical “value added” utilities included with the distribution, including much of the Mandrakelinux Control Center. I asked Mandrakelinux…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 9-22, 2005
Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Lately, p6l has outstripped p6i in volume. While this used to be the norm, it has become a rare occurrence. Strange. Anyway, this summary would be brought to you by cookies, but I…
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Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 3
This article is the third 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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Perl Code Kata: Testing Databases
Testing code that uses a database can be tricky. The most common solution is to set up a test database with test data and run your tests against this. This, of course, requires bookkeeping code to keep your test…
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This Week in Perl 6, Feb. 1 - 8, 2005
All~ Welcome to yet another summary in which I will undoubtedly confuse two homophones - probably more than a few this week as I am a little tired. But perhaps the alien on my window or the vampire on…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, Jan. 19-31, 2005
All~ Welcome to another double feature summary. Sadly, this one was delayed because of an argument that I was/am having with my connection. Fortunately, a generous neighbor has allowed me to use his connection for the time being. So,…
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Throwing Shapes
Sometimes data processing is better when separated into different processes that may run on the same machine or even on different ones. This is the well-known client-server technique. You can do it using a known protocol (such as http)…
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The Phalanx Project
Imagine a city protected by a small army of soldiers. The city’s future growth requires a larger force; so a few determined lieutenants go to nearby towns and enlist aid from their police departments. These forces will come to the…
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This Week in Perl 6, Jan. 11-18, 2005
Welcome to yet another Perl Summary brought to you by music and pizza (although the pizza is late in arriving). Like many summaries before it, we start with an attempt at non sequitur and Perl 6 Language. Perl 6 Language…
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