This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-20
You know how it is, you go away for a lovely weekend folk festival in Wales, you have a really good, relaxed time, singing yourself hoarse and generally forgetting all about technology before coming home to email from the…
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Filters in Apache 2.0
Not too long ago, despite a relative dearth of free tuits, I decided that I had put off my investigation of mod_perl 2.0 for too long - it was time to really start kicking the tires and tinkering with…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-13
Another week passes, another summary gets written. How does he do it? We start, as per usual with the still very quiet perl6-internals list. hey sexy where you been? The internals list’s normally impeccable spam filters failed slightly this…
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Synopsis 6
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 6 for the current design information. This document summarizes Apocalypse 6, which covers subroutines and the new type system. Subroutines and Other Code…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-06
Welcome my friends to the show that never ends. Yes, it’s another of Piers Cawley’s risible attempts to summarize the week’s happenings in the Perl 6 development community. We start, as usual, with events in the perl6-internals world (not the…
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Apache::VMonitor - The Visual System and Apache Server Monitor
Stas Bekman is a coauthor of O’Reilly’s upcoming Practical mod_perl. It’s important to be able to monitor your production system’s health. You want to monitor the memory and file system utilization, the system load, how much memory the processes…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-30
Welcome once again to the gallimaufry that is a Perl 6 summary. Unfettered this week by the presence of feline distraction we plunge straight into the crystal clear waters of perl6-internals. Iterator proof of concept People must really like…
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Five Tips for .NET Programming in Perl
Randy Ray is coauthor of Programming Web Services with Perl Abstract: One of the most common categories of questions on the SOAP::Lite mailing list is how to get Perl SOAP applications to work with .NET services. It’s not that…
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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,…
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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?…
