A colleague of mine recently asked me about Perl’s future. Specifically, he wondered if we have any tricks up our sleeves to compete against today’s two most popular platforms: .NET and Java. Without a second’s hesitation, I repeated the…
What a surprise, a scant week after the last Perl 6 Summary of 2003, it’s the first Perl 6 Summary of 2004. Will wonders never cease? Without further ado, we’ll start with perl6-internals as usual. Garbage Collection Tasks Dan noted…
Recently we heard from Kake Pugh about the OpenGuides project, a wiki-based collaborative city guide system; previously, we heard from Brian Ingerson about his Kwiki wiki implementation. Guides, wikis, blogs … the new fashion in software engineering at the…
Another week, another late summary. Luckily it’s been a quiet week so I should get this written faster than usual. As is traditional, we start with perl6-internals Parrot build system tinkering Andy Dougherty and other discussed extending the Parrot build…
Slim Devices made their name in 2001 with the SLIMP3, a networked MP3 and Internet radio player. The SLIMP3 won a five-out-of-five mouse rating in Macworld magazine, and was featured in GQ magazine and on TechTV’s The Screen Savers….
Welcome back to the weekly Perl 6 Summary, which I’m hoping to keep on a weekly cycle for the foreseeable future. It’s been a relatively low volume week this week, I’m assuming that Thanksgiving had something to do with…
Right, hopefully things are back to normal(ish) after the disk crashes that rather spoilt the last summary. I’ve managed to fill in my mail archive too so this summary will cover the events of the last fortnight (that’s two…
One of the common Perl idioms is processing text files line by line: while( <FH> ) { do something with $_ } This idiom has several variants, but the key point is that it reads in only one line…
Suppose you encounter a (single-player) riddle or a puzzle that you don’t know how to solve. Let’s also suppose that this puzzle involves moving between several states of the board with an enumerable number of moves emerging from one…
Traditionally this paragraph concerns itself with a few words on what I’ve been up to before finally settling down to get the summary written. But despite the fact that it’s nearly four o’clock, it’s been one of those days…
In this article, I will show how to bring Java code into a Perl program with Inline::Java. I won’t probe the internals of Inline or Inline::Java, but I will tell you what you need to make a Java class available…
It’s Monday morning, the croissants have been baked, the focaccia is glistening with all the extra virgin olive oil I poured on it as it left the oven and, in the airing cupboard, a raisin borodinsky slouches towards full…
First, a disclaimer. I’m not a wiki celebrity. I don’t look good in StudlyCaps. I’m not part of the wiki culture — I’ve never contributed to Ward’s Wiki, never used TWiki, am baffled by MoinMoin, and every time I…
Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I was sat hiding Leon Brocard in the first letters of the first 11 body paragraphs of the last summary. Now, here I am, on the train, typing…
An Embarrassing Confession I’d like to think that I’m a reasonably decent Perl programmer now. I’d like to think that I have a good grasp of how to solve relatively common problems in Perl. But, you know, it hasn’t…
Lumme! Another week, another summary. Every week (almost) we start with the perl6-internals list, so here goes. An Evil task for the interested Our Glorious Leader, Dan Sugalski, last week asked for volunteers to work on making ordered destruction…
James D. Tisdall is the author of the recently released Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics. In my previous article, A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part I, I showed you some programming “tricks” that help you avoid the trap…
Good afternoon readers. You find me sitting comfortably and tired after a vaguely frantic week involving large amounts of new (and huge) equipment, the delivery of a new Mini Cooper, and four days offline at a large format photography…
About a year ago, a person asked the Fun With Perl mailing list about some code they had written to do database queries. It’s important to note that this person was posting from an .it address; why will become…
It’s quite possible to end up with digital music files that don’t have good information about what they are. Files that don’t have ID3 information can rely on paths for album information, for example, and that is lost easily. M3U…
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