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,…
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)…
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…
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…
On Being Wrong When I decided to study computer science, I installed Linux on my computer and bought a copy of “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie. I have been trying to solve software problems ever since….
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This summary explores such thrilling issues as multi-dimensional slices of Chinese food. After all, the amount of sauce any piece of Chinese food can absorb is proportional to its surface area, which is a…
In my previous article, I provided a guided tour of the Bricolage installation process. If you followed along, you should now have a nice, functioning installation of Bricolage 1.8 all ready to go. But as Mr. Popeil used to…
All~ Welcome to a New Year of Perl 6 Summaries. I have been doing biweekly summaries over the holiday season, but I plan on returning to weekly ones now. Hopefully “World of Warcraft” won’t prevent me, we shall see. But…
This article is the second in a series aimed at building a full 3D engine in Perl. The first article, Building a 3D Engine in Perl, covered basic program structure, opening an OpenGL window using SDL, basic projection and…
All~ The observant among you might notice that I missed last week’s summary. With the hubbub and confusion of the holidays, I blame ninjas, in particular Ryu Hyabusa. Given that Christmas is next weekend and New Years is the…
It’s been almost nine years since the first release of mod_perl, and it remains a very powerful tool for writing web applications and extending the capabilities of the Apache web server. However, lurking around the corner is Perl 6,…
Want to get better at Perl? This short exercise helps you understand how modules import symbols into namespaces.
In the summer of 2001, the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) hired a new Provost. She surveyed various school services and came up with a short list of must-do projects. Given the level of competition in…
All~ Last week I asked for help identifying the source of a quotation. One friendly soul suggested Alan J. Perlis, but could not find an actual attribution. It did lead me to find a very applicable (and in my…
All~ Welcome to yet another summary. Although Aliya is present for this summary, I think the unnamed gecko with its tongue out will be the one who is helping to bring it to you, aided of course by Nicola…
This article is the first in a series aimed at building a full 3D engine. It could be the underlying technology for a video game, the visualization system for a scientific application, the walkthrough program for an architectural design…
Perl’s debugger is powerful but somewhat esoteric. The core perldebtut tutorial is a good introduction, but who wants to skim through pages of documentation when you only need a quick refresher on the syntax of a command? Let this printable…
Mod_perlservice? What is That? Mod_perlservice is a cool, new way to do remoting - sharing data between server and client processes - with Perl and Apache. Let’s start by breaking that crazy name apart: mod + perl + service. Mod…
All~ Welcome to yet another Monday summary. This would have been a Sunday summary, but Avernum (from Spiderweb Software) forcibly prevented it. As usual, we will start out with Perl 6 Language. Perl 6 Language Modules and Exports Aaron Sherman…
Accordingly to Merriam-Webster Online, “flood” means: 1: a rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land; 2: an overwhelming quantity or volume. In computer software there are very similar situations when an unpredictable and irregular…
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