Exegesis 4
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 4 for the current design information. And I’d se-ell my-y so-oul for flow of con-tro-ol … over Perl - The Motels, “Total Control”…
mod_perl in 30 minutes
Introduction In the previous article, I’ve shown quite amazing Web performance reports from companies that have deployed mod_perl heavily. You might be surprised but you can quite easily get similarly amazing results if you move your service to mod_perl…
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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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Introducing AxKit
Series Introduction This article is the first in a series of articles introducing the AxKit web application platform. Starting from the basics, this series explains how to install a basic AxKit server and then explores AxKit’s more powerful capabilities….
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This Week on Perl 6 (3 -9 Mar 2002)
Notes Both the email subscription and the web archive are temporarily offline. This should be remedied shortly. In the meantime, please send additions, submissions, corrections, kudos, and complaints to bwarnock@capita.com. Perl 6 is the major redesign and rewrite of…
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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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These Weeks on Perl 6 (10 Feb - 2 Mar 2002)
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Why mod_perl?
In this article, I’ll give an initial introduction to mod_perl, make you want to give it a try and present a few examples of the well-known sites that are powered by mod_perl enabled Apache. What Is mod_perl? mod_perl is…
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Preventing Cross-site Scripting Attacks
Introduction The cross-site scripting attack is one of the most common, yet overlooked, security problems facing web developers today. A web site is vulnerable if it displays user-submitted content without checking for malicious script tags. Luckily, Perl and mod_perl…
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Optimizing Your Perl
Is your Perl program taking too long to run? This might be because you’ve chosen a data structure or algorithm that takes a long time to run. By rethinking how you’ve implemented a function, you might be able to…
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This Fortnight on Perl 6 (27 Jan - 9 Feb 2002)
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Visual Perl
Jumbo shrimp, military intelligence - Visual Perl? ActiveState built its reputation by bringing Perl to the Windows platform, thereby extending the reach of Perl and the size and nature of the Perl community. However, regardless of the Windows port,…
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Beginning PMCs
One of the best things about Parrot is that it’s not just for Perl implementors. Parrot 0.0.3 came with support for extensible data types that can be used to implement the types used in your favorite language. The mechanism…
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Finding CGI Scripts
Introduction No matter how much we try to convince people that Perl is a multi-purpose programming language, we’d be deluding ourselves if we didn’t admit that the majority of programmers first come into contact with Perl through their experience with…
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This Week on Perl 6 (13 - 19 Jan 2002)
This summary, as with past summaries, can be found in here. (Note that this is an @Home address, and will change sometime in the next two months.) Please send additions, submissions, corrections, kudos, and complaints to bwarnock@capita.com. Perl 6…
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This Week on Perl 6 (6 - 12 Jan 2002)
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Apocalypse 4
Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 04 for the latest information. Table of Contents Accepted RFCs RFC 022: Control flow: Builtin switch statement Table 1: Matching a switch value…
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Creating Custom Widgets
In this Perl/Tk article, I’ll discuss balloon help, photos and widget subclassing. Help balloons can be attached to widgets, menu items, and, as we’ll see here, individual canvas items. Subclassing a Perl/Tk widget is also known as creating a…
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This Week on Perl 6 (30 December 2001 - 5 Jan 2002)
Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk. This summary, as with past summaries, can be found in here. Please send additions, submissions, corrections, kudos, and complaints to bwarnock@capita.com. For…
