This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-23
Assuming I can tear myself away from stroking the cat who has just magically appeared on my chest and is even now trying to wipe his dags on my nose, welcome one and all to another Perl 6 summary,…
For Perl Programmers : only
Have you ever wished that you could have more than one version of a Perl module installed on your system, and that you could easily tell Perl exactly which one you wanted to load? Perhaps you have some legacy…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-16
Spring is in the air, the Apocalypse is here (or imminent, depending on which sense of the word ‘Apocalypse’ you are using). We’ll start with perl6-internals as usual, before bracing ourselves for the increased volume and ploughing on into…
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The Many Dates and Times of Perl
Some Basic Concepts In order to understand what you might want to do with dates and times, it’s good to have a handle on some basic concepts. Here are some terms that I’ll be using in this article: datetime…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-09
Ooh look, it’s another of those Perl 6 Summaries where Piers tries to work a gratuitous reference to Leon Brocard into a summary of what’s been happening to the Perl 6 development process this week. As tradition dictates, we’ll…
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Apocalypse 6
Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 06 for the latest information. This is the Apocalypse on Subroutines. In Perl culture the term "subroutine" conveys the general notion of calling…
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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 8
In this article we continue talking about how to optimize your site for performance without touching code, buying new hardware or telling casts. A few simple httpd.conf configuration changes can improve the performance tremendously. Choosing MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers and StartServers…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-02
Welcome back to another episode in the ongoing saga that is the Perl 6 development process (or at least my attempt to describe it). We kick off with perl6-internals. IMCC calling conventions Piers Cawley attempted to describe tail call…
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Genomic Perl
This is a book I have been looking forward to for a long time. Back when James Tisdall had just finished his Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, I asked him to write an article about how to get into bioinf…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-23
Another week, another Perl 6 Summary, in which you’ll find gratuitous mentions of Leon Brocard, awed descriptions of what Leopold Tötsch got up to and maybe even a summary of what’s been happening in Perl 6 design and development….
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Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl
Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl A Few Words About Vectors Getting Down To Business Building the Search Engine Making it Better Further Reading Why waste time reinventing the wheel, when you could be reinventing the engine?…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-16
Welcome to the all new, entirely unaltered, all singing, all dancing Perl 6 summary. Your beacon of reliability in the crazy world that is Perl 6 design and development. Another quiet week. Even quieter than last week in fact, unless…
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Module::Build
Dave Rolsky is a co-author of the recently released Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason. This article was originally published in February of 2003, and was updated by Dave Rolsky and Michael Schwern in January, 2008. If you’ve ever…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-09
Welcome to the latest Perl 6 summary, your handy cut out and keep guide to the goings on in the crazy world of Perl 6 design and development. It’s been a rather quiet week this week; only 75 messages…
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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 7
Correct configuration of the MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers, StartServers, MaxClients, and MaxRequestsPerChild parameters is very important. There are no defaults. If they are too low, then you will underutilize the system’s capabilities. If they are too high, then chances are that…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-02
Parrot Objects (noun, not verb) Piers Cawley worried about class private attributes and asked it it was still going to be possible to write an object serializing tool that wouldn’t require tons of Perl class overloads. Dan said that…
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Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason
Disclaimer: As you know, each month I try to review a recently published Perl book, and I aim to cover all the majors as they come out. The book that’s fallen onto my desk for review this month is…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-01-26
Welcome to the first Perl 6 summary of the new ‘Copious Free Time enabled’ era, which should mean that these summaries will get mailed out on Monday evening from now on. We start, as usual, with perl6-internals The eval…
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Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize
Screen-scraping is the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site - not just downloading pages, but filling out forms, navigating around the site, and dealing with the HTML received as a result. As well as for traditional…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-01-19
Summary time again, damn but those tuits are hard to round up. Guess, what? perl6-internals comes first. 141 messages this week versus the language list’s 143. Objects (again) Objects were still very much on everyone’s mind as the discussions of…
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