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Customize Emacs with Perl, debug your programs with line tracing, mock the DBI for testing, and manage buffering effectively-four short articles for Perl programmers.
Automating Windows (DNS) with Perl
Driving Windows DNS Server If you happen to manage a DNS server running on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 with more than just a couple of dozen resource records on it, you’ve probably already hit the limits of the MMC…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, March 7 - March 21, 2005
All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight’s summary. I believe this is the highest volume I have ever seen the three lists at simultaneously. Hopefully they will keep it up, because they’re doing good work. To aid the epic endeavor…
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Symbol Table Manipulation
Having almost achieved the state of perfect laziness, one of my favorite modules is Class::DBI::mysql. It makes MySQL database tables seem like classes, and their rows like objects. This completely relieves me from using SQL in most cases. This…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 23 - March 7, 2005
All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary, once again brought to you by chocolate chips. This does have the distinction of being the first summary written on a Mac, so if I break into random swear words, just bear…
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A Plan for Pugs
Autrijus Tang, creator of the Pugs Perl 6 implementation, explains how this project may bring Perl 6 to fruition.
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Perl and Mandrakelinux
Perl programmers have a special reason for choosing Mandrakelinux as their desktop operating system. Mandrakelinux uses Perl for dozens of the graphical “value added” utilities included with the distribution, including much of the Mandrakelinux Control Center. I asked Mandrakelinux…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 9-22, 2005
Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Lately, p6l has outstripped p6i in volume. While this used to be the norm, it has become a rare occurrence. Strange. Anyway, this summary would be brought to you by cookies, but I…
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Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 3
This article is the third in a series aimed at building a full 3D engine in Perl. The first article started with basic program structure and worked up to displaying a simple depth-buffered scene in an OpenGL window. The…
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Perl Code Kata: Testing Databases
Testing code that uses a database can be tricky. The most common solution is to set up a test database with test data and run your tests against this. This, of course, requires bookkeeping code to keep your test…
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This Week in Perl 6, Feb. 1 - 8, 2005
All~ Welcome to yet another summary in which I will undoubtedly confuse two homophones - probably more than a few this week as I am a little tired. But perhaps the alien on my window or the vampire on…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, Jan. 19-31, 2005
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,…
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Throwing Shapes
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)…
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The Phalanx Project
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…
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This Week in Perl 6, Jan. 11-18, 2005
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…
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An Introduction to Quality Assurance
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….
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This Week in Perl 6, January 03 - January 11, 2005
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…
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Bricolage Configuration Directives
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…
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This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 21 - 31 2004
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…
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Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 2
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…
