Writing CGI Applications with Perl
It seems every month or so, there’s a new Perl and CGI book out; huge thick volumes promising to teach you all you need to know about programming for the Web in 24 hours. They all start with “Hello…
This week on Perl 6 (9/1 - 9/8, 2002)
Well, what a week it’s been, eh, people? Larry’s been telling the Slashdot crowd about quantum God and big knobs, there’s been a call for Perl 6 programmers on Perlmonks (http://makeashorterlink.com/), and the Octarine parrot took flight. So, let’s…
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The Fusion of Perl and Oracle
Andy Duncan is the co-author of Perl for Oracle DBAs. My coauthor, Jared Still, and I had the task of writing a book, Perl for Oracle DBAs, about two of our favorite subjects, Perl and Oracle. Our goal was…
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This week on Perl 6 (8/26 - 9/1, 2002)
Well, it has been a week. Damian came to London and made our heads spin; perl6-language erupted in a flurry of interesting, high signal/noise threads; Parrot reached its 0.0.8 release; Larry made many of his wonderfully unexpected but obviously…
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Mail Filtering
There are many ways to filter your e-mail with Perl. Two of the more popular and interesting ways are to use PerlMx or Mail::Audit. I took a long look at both, and this is what I thought of them….
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Exegesis 5
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 5 for the current design information. Exegesis 5 What’s the diff? Starting gently Lay it out for me Interpolate ye not … The…
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Web Basics with LWP
Sean M. Burke is the author of Perl & LWP Introduction LWP (short for “Library for WWW in Perl”) is a popular group of Perl modules for accessing data on the Web. Like most Perl module-distributions, each of LWP’s component modules…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-18)
The story so far… Larry, Tom, Randal, Damian, Jon, Chip, Gnat, Ziggy, Dick and the rest of the gang were chatting with all the other cool Perl kids about where Perl was and should be going. Then Jon threw a…
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Acme::Comment
/* This is a Perl comment */ Commenting in Perl “But what?”, I hear you think, “Perl doesn’t have multi-line comments!” That’s true. Perl doesn’t have multiline comments. But why is that? What is wrong with them? Mostly, it…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-11)
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little…
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Proxy Objects
In your time as a Perl programmer, it becomes almost inevitable that at some point you will have to manage in-memory tree structures of some sort. When you do this, it becomes important to be aware of how Perl…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-04)
Back on the regular schedule complete with new and improved article links via those lovely people at Google groups. Hopefully, we’ll be staying on this schedule for the foreseeable future. As usual, we’ll kick off with perl6-internals, which was,…
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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 4
Introduction If your OS supports sharing of memory (and most sane systems do), you might save a lot of RAM by sharing it between child processes. This will allow you to run more processes and hopefully better satisfy the…
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Graphics Programming with Perl
I recently received Martien Verbruggen’s long-awaited “Graphics Programming in Perl,” and I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. As he notes himself, “I didn’t think there would be enough coherent material to write such a book, and…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-07-21)
Another week, another Perl 6 summary. Cunningly this week I have taken over the summary from Piers in order to make it easier for me to namecheck myself. It’s been a good week too, with more happening in perl6-internals…
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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 3
In this article we will continue the topic started in the previous article. This time we talk about tools that help us with code profiling and memory usage measuring. Code Profiling Techniques The profiling process helps you to determine…
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This Week on Perl 6 (8 - 14 Jul 2002)
Still waiting for Exegesis 5? Is Parrot a second system? Don’t mix labels and comments Perl 6 grammar, take 5 So, what is IMCC then? Vtables and multimethod dispatch Building support for non-native bytecode Mutable vs. immutable strings Adding…
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A Test::MockObject Illustrated Example
Perl’s Test::MockObject CPAN module helps you test troublesome interfaces. Learn how it works!
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Taglib TMTOWTDI
As with many Perl systems, AxKit often provides multiple ways of doing things. Developers from other programming cultures may find these choices and freedom a bit bewildering at first but this (hopefully) soon gives way to the realization that…
