Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason
Disclaimer: As you know, each month I try to review a recently published Perl book, and I aim to cover all the majors as they come out. The book that’s fallen onto my desk for review this month is…
Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
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…
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A Review of Komodo
Every time I get a new copy of ActiveState’s Komodo IDE, I do a review that invariably ends "this would be the perfect IDE for me if I were the sort of person who used IDEs". And every time I…
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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…
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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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Achieving Closure
Maybe you’ve heard about closures; they’re one of those aspects of Perl - like object-oriented programming - that everyone raves about and you can’t really see the big deal until you play around with them and then they just click….
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Where Wizards Fear To Tread
So you’re a Perl master. You’ve got XS sorted. You know how the internals work. Hey, there’s nothing we can teach you on perl.com that you don’t already know. You think? Where Wizards Fear To Tread brings you the…
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mod_perl Developer's Cookbook
I always feel uneasy getting review copies of books like this; review copies of books are for me to look through, tell people how good or bad they are, and then sit on the shelf looking pretty. This book, essentially,…
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A Perl Hacker's Foray into .NET
No, I haven’t sold out; I haven’t gone over to the dark side; I haven’t been bought. I’m one of the last people to be using closed-source software by choice. But one of the traits of any self-respecting hacker…
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Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin
I receive a lot of spam; an absolute massive bucket load of spam. I received more than 100 pieces of spam in the first three days of this month. I receive so much spam that Hormel Foods sends trucks…
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Lightweight Languages
What happens if you get a bunch of academic computer scientists and implementors of languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Curl, and lock them into a room for a day? Bringing together the academic and commercial sides of…
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Object-Oriented Perl
I’ve recently started learning to play the game of Go. Go and Perl have many things in common - the basic stuff of which they are made, the rules of the game, are relatively simple, and hide an amazing…
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Parrot : Some Assembly Required
Last week, the first public version of Parrot was released. This week, we’re going to take a close look at what Parrot is, how you can get hold of it and play with it, and what we intend for…
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This Week on p5p 2001/09/03
Notes This Week on P5P Testing, testing Coderef-in-@INC Default random seed local chdir() File::Spec Smoking! Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and…
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This Week on p5p 2001/08/27
Notes This Week on P5P $] and v-strings Callbacks in the core CvMETHOD and ->can() Coderefs in @INC (again) Malloc Madness Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the…
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This Week on p5p 2001/08/15
Notes This Week on P5P POD Specification Unicode Normalisation Threading Semantics perlmodstyle Shrinking down the Perl install Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month….
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This Week on p5p 2001/08/07
Notes This Week on P5P Subroutine Prototypes -Wall fixes The Great SDK Debate New Stuff! Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions…
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People Behind Perl : Artur Bergman
We continue our series on the People Behind Perl by interviewing Artur Bergman. Artur is a recent addition to the legion of Perl developers, but he’s already making extremely big waves. Artur picked up the gauntlet of the new…
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This Week on p5p 2001/07/30
Notes This Week on P5P Hash “clamping” P5P Meeting Asynchronous Callbacks h2ph iThreads Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions to the perl5-porters biographies…
