Database Programming with Perl
An Embarrassing Confession I’d like to think that I’m a reasonably decent Perl programmer now. I’d like to think that I have a good grasp of how to solve relatively common problems in Perl. But, you know, it hasn’t…
Identifying Audio Files with MusicBrainz
It’s quite possible to end up with digital music files that don’t have good information about what they are. Files that don’t have ID3 information can rely on paths for album information, for example, and that is lost easily. M3U…
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Adding Search Functionality to Perl Applications
Introduction to Searching Usually, when building an application, a lot of thought goes into how the data is entered and updated, rather than finding it again. Finding data is an afterthought, especially when developing with a small dataset. If…
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Class::DBI
Several articles on Perl.com, including the recent Phrasebook Design Pattern, have discussed the problems faced when writing Perl code that interacts with a database. Terrence Brannon’s DBIx::Recordset article attempted to show how code dealing with databases can be made…
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An AxKit Image Gallery
AxKit is not limited to working with pure XML data. Starting with this article, we’ll work with and around non-XML data by developing an image browser that works with two types of non-XML data: a directory listing built from…
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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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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…
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XSP, Taglibs and Pipelines
In the first article in this series, we saw how to install, configure and test AxKit, and we took a look at a simple processing pipeline. In this article, we will see how to write a simple 10-line XSP…
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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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Building a Bridge to the Active Directory
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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Changing Hash Behaviour with tie
Introduction In my experience, hashes are just about the most useful built-in datatype that Perl has. They are useful for so many things - from simple lookup tables to complex data structures. And, of course, most Perl Objects have…
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MSXML, It's Not Just for VB Programmers Anymore
My co-workers cringe when I tell them the truth. What XML parser are you using? MSXML? With Perl? You’ve gotta be crazy. Yes, it’s true, but I couldn’t help myself. After test driving MSXML in a Visual Basic application,…
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Designing a Search Engine
A couple of months ago, I was approached by a company that I had done some work for previously, and was asked to build them a search engine to index about 200MB of HTML. However, some fairly strict rules…
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DBIx::Recordset VS DBI
Problems Using DBI at Application-Level Intolerance to Table and Data Mutation Error-Prone and Tedious Query Construction Manual and Complex Mapping of Database Data to Perl Data Structures Succint CGI-SQL Interaction (Database Control via ``CGI One-Liners’’) Control and Monitoring of…
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Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit
Table of Contents A more complex example Producing XML Multiple Formats Introducing the Template Toolkit There are a number of Perl modules that are universally recognised as The Right Thing To Use for certain tasks. If you accessed a…
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A Short Guide to DBI
Short guide to DBI (The Perl Database Interface Module) General information about relational databases Relational databases started to get to be a big deal in the 1970’s, andthey’re still a big deal today, which is a little peculiar, because they’re…
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Perl Support for XML Developing
How to Make Perl The Language of Choice for XML Perl has been the language of choice for anyone doing serious text processing. Now efforts are underway to make Perl the language of choice for those doing “structured” text…
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