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…
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…
It’s been nearly six months since the release of Perl 5.8.0, but many people still haven’t upgraded to it. We’ll take a look at some of the new features it provides and describe why you should investigate them yourself….
… And we’re back. Yup, it’s summary time again. We’ll dive straight in with perl6-internals (as if you expected anything else). More Thoughts on DOD Leopold Tötsch posted a test program showing the effects of PMC size and timing…
Hello, and welcome to the first summary of 2003; welcome to the future. This summary covers two weeks, but they’ve been quiet what with Christmas and the New Year’s. So, starting as usual with perl6-internals A Pile of Patches to…
It’s desirable to avoid forking under mod_perl, as when you do, you are forking the entire Apache server - lock, stock and barrel. Not only is your Perl code and Perl interpreter being duplicated, but so is mod_ssl, mod_rewrite,…
You know, it’s not easy having the happiness of billions of children around the world resting with your organization, and it’s even harder on the IT department. The incorporated elves and pixiefolk of the North Pole, under the direction…
Dave Rolsky and Ken Williams are the authors of Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason. Mason is a powerful framework for generating dynamic text, and is especially useful when creating complex, featureful Web sites. For those (hopefully few) folks…
Another Monday evening. Another summary to write. Starting, as is becoming tediously predictable, with perl6-internals. Another JIT Discussion Toward the end of the previous week, Leopold Tötsch posted something about the latest round of changes to the JIT core….
Sharing Memory As we have learned in the previous article, sharing memory helps us save memory with mod_perl, giving us a huge speed increase; but we pay the price with a big memory footprint. I presented a few techniques to…
Oh look, it’s only Monday evening and Piers has started writing this week’s summary. What is the world coming to? As usual, we start with the internals list. C#/Parrot Status During last week’s discussion of C# and Parrot, Nicholas Clark…
Several articles on Perl.com, including the recent Phrasebook Design Pattern, have discussed the problems faced when writing Perl code that interacts with a database. Terrence Brannon’s DBIx::Recordset article attempted to show how code dealing with databases can be made…
And some rough beast, its hour come ‘round at last slouches toward… And then the scansion goes to pot and I can’t make a joke fit. Shame. Anyhoo, it’s time for another episode of the continuing saga of Perl…
"Oh! my ears and whiskers, I’m late!" It’s 0650, it’s 20021120 and I’ve only just started writing the summary. Call me lazy, call me a shirker, call me anything you damn well please, just don’t interrupt me while I’m writing…
A History of Forward and Reverse DNS When an Internet server receives an incoming connection from a client, it may take a precaution of verifying the identity of the client. Some protocols simply trust the client to provide proper credentials…
Far off in distant Newark, a figure muttering something about ‘Leon Brocard’ shambles across a railway bridge and makes its way into a waiting room. Time passes. After a while, a train arrives and the figure shambles on board,…
The main goal of this article is to discuss in detail about exception handling in Perl and how to implement it using Error.pm. On our way, we’ll be touching upon the advantages of using exception-handling over traditional error-handling mechanisms,…
Welcome to the latest of the ongoing series of Perl 6 summaries, in which your arrogant moderator does battle with the forces of prolixity in a Brobdingnagian attempt to tame the tortuously tangled threads of Perl 6’s design and…
As Andy Lester points out in this month’s Perl Review, one big advantage of there being so many Perl books around is that the publishers can now get around to putting out books on some of the more "niche" areas…
You may have noticed that this summary is late. Um … [looks sheepish, shuffles feet], the dog ate my homework. I did a tiny bit of procrastination at the beginning of the week and then got totally overtaken by…
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