Bioinformatics, the use of computers in biology research, has been increasing in importance during the past decade as the Human Genome Project went from its beginning to the announcement last year of a “draft” of the complete sequence of…
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Introduction Active Directory of Windows 2000’s directory service, allowing organizations to keep and share information about networked resources and users. One significant feature of the Active Directory is that it is LDAP-compliant. Unfortunately, it is still very difficult to…
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As it happens, no matter how much I write about Perl/Tk, there’s always something left unsaid. A case in point is the topic of drag and drop, which didn’t make it into our book, Mastering Perl/Tk. This article describes…
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Does your code work? How do you know that? Testing software with Perl is easier than you think, and it’ll give you confidence that you’ve done the right thing.
If you’ve ever had to do user support, then you’ll be familiar with the following scenario: A question comes in from a user, and you write an e-mail reply. However, by the time you’ve hit “send,” another member of…
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…
The Perl programming language is popular with biologists because of its practicality. In my book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, I demonstrate how many of the things biologists want to write programs for are readily-even enjoyably-accomplished with Perl. My book…
Even if you haven’t heard of the RSS acronym before, you’re likely to have used RSS in the past. Whether through the slashboxes at slashdot or our own news summary at use.perl.org, the premise remains the same - RSS,…
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…
Programming can be a stressful game. We sit at our machines, day in, day out, endlessly staring at a monitor fathoming where that last devious bug has buried itself. It’s not surprising then that sometimes it gets to be…
London.pm technical meetings are always inspiring events with top notch speakers. At our most recent gathering Richard Clamp and Mark Fowler gave us “Wax::On, Wax::Off - how to become a Perl sensei”; Paul Mison showed us how to make…
This fortnight on perl5-porters (08-21 October 2001) Notes This Week on P5P 5.8.0 TODO POD Testing ${^TAINT} AUTOLOAD and packages B::Parrot Miscellaneous Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is…
Common Myths Table of Contents Roll Your Own Application Server Case Study: eToys.com Apache::PerlRun to the Rescue Planning the New Architecture Surviving Christmas 2000 The Architecture Proxy Servers Application Servers …
Introduction PerlMx is a utility by ActiveState that allows Perl programs to interface with Sendmail connections. It’s quite a powerful tool, and once installed, it’s very easy to use. This article will detail how to install and setup PerlMx,…
Notes This Week on P5P chromatic Call for PerlIO bugs Attributes are broken Multiple FETCHes Code cleanups Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes…
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 3 for the current design information. Diamond lives (context-aware); Underscore space means concatenate; fat comma means pair; A pre-star will flatten; colon-equals will…
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