Optimizing Your Perl
Is your Perl program taking too long to run? This might be because you’ve chosen a data structure or algorithm that takes a long time to run. By rethinking how you’ve implemented a function, you might be able to…
This Fortnight on Perl 6 (27 Jan - 9 Feb 2002)
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Visual Perl
Jumbo shrimp, military intelligence - Visual Perl? ActiveState built its reputation by bringing Perl to the Windows platform, thereby extending the reach of Perl and the size and nature of the Perl community. However, regardless of the Windows port,…
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Beginning PMCs
One of the best things about Parrot is that it’s not just for Perl implementors. Parrot 0.0.3 came with support for extensible data types that can be used to implement the types used in your favorite language. The mechanism…
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Finding CGI Scripts
Introduction No matter how much we try to convince people that Perl is a multi-purpose programming language, we’d be deluding ourselves if we didn’t admit that the majority of programmers first come into contact with Perl through their experience with…
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This Week on Perl 6 (13 - 19 Jan 2002)
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This Week on Perl 6 (6 - 12 Jan 2002)
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Apocalypse 4
Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 04 for the latest information. Table of Contents Accepted RFCs RFC 022: Control flow: Builtin switch statement Table 1: Matching a switch value…
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Creating Custom Widgets
In this Perl/Tk article, I’ll discuss balloon help, photos and widget subclassing. Help balloons can be attached to widgets, menu items, and, as we’ll see here, individual canvas items. Subclassing a Perl/Tk widget is also known as creating a…
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This Week on Perl 6 (30 December 2001 - 5 Jan 2002)
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Beginning Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, the use of computers in biology research, has been increasing in importance during the past decade as the Human Genome Project went from its beginning to the announcement last year of a “draft” of the complete sequence of…
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This Week on Perl 6 (16 - 22 December 2001)
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This Week on Perl 6 (23 - 29 December 2001)
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Building a Bridge to the Active Directory
Introduction Active Directory of Windows 2000’s directory service, allowing organizations to keep and share information about networked resources and users. One significant feature of the Active Directory is that it is LDAP-compliant. Unfortunately, it is still very difficult to…
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This Week on Perl 6 (9 - 15 December 2001)
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A Drag-and-Drop Primer for Perl/Tk
As it happens, no matter how much I write about Perl/Tk, there’s always something left unsaid. A case in point is the topic of drag and drop, which didn’t make it into our book, Mastering Perl/Tk. This article describes…
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This Week on Perl 6 (2 - 8 December 2001)
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An Introduction to Testing
Does your code work? How do you know that? Testing software with Perl is easier than you think, and it’ll give you confidence that you’ve done the right thing.
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Request Tracker
If you’ve ever had to do user support, then you’ll be familiar with the following scenario: A question comes in from a user, and you write an e-mail reply. However, by the time you’ve hit “send,” another member of…
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Lightweight Languages
What happens if you get a bunch of academic computer scientists and implementors of languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Curl, and lock them into a room for a day? Bringing together the academic and commercial sides of…
