Deploying Dancer Apps (Addendum)
Some more thoughts about deploying Dancer apps as persistent daemons
Perl Command-Line Options
Perl has a large number of command-line options that can help to make your programs more concise and open up many new possibilities for one-off command-line scripts using Perl. In this article we’ll look at some of the most…
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Perl's Special Variables
One of the best ways to make your Perl code look more like … well, like Perl code - and not like C or BASIC or whatever you used before you were introduced to Perl - is to get…
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How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ...
There are a number of tools available for writing books. Many people would immediately reach for their favorite word processor, but having written one book using Microsoft Word I’m very unlikely to repeat the experience. Darren Chamberlain, Andy Wardley, and…
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Overloading
Introduction: What is Overloading? All object-oriented programming languages have a feature called overloading, but in most of them this term means something different from what it means in Perl. Take a look at this Java example: public Fraction(int num,…
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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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Changing Hash Behaviour with tie
Introduction In my experience, hashes are just about the most useful built-in datatype that Perl has. They are useful for so many things - from simple lookup tables to complex data structures. And, of course, most Perl Objects have…
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Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit
Table of Contents A more complex example Producing XML Multiple Formats Introducing the Template Toolkit There are a number of Perl modules that are universally recognised as The Right Thing To Use for certain tasks. If you accessed a…
