Perl Needs Better Tools
Perl is in danger of becoming a fading language-new programmers are learning Java and Python in college, and companies like Google hardly use Perl at all. If you are afraid that Perl may be in danger of becoming irrelevant…
Independently Parsing Perl
A few years into my programming career, I found myself involved in a somewhat unusual web project for an enormous global IT company. Due to some odd platform issues, we could write the intranet half of the project only…
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Komodo 3.0 Review
There are several different types of programmers, but I would wager that the vast majority are just like me: their mouse is a crucial input extension, and having an environment that supports the task at hand makes coding easier and,…
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FMTYEWTK About Mass Edits In Perl
For those not used to the terminology, FMTYEWTK stands for Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know. This one is fairly light as FMTYEWTKs usually go. In any case, the question before us is, “How do you apply an…
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Perl Command-Line Options
Perl has a large number of command-line options that can help to make your programs more concise and open up many new possibilities for one-off command-line scripts using Perl. In this article we’ll look at some of the most…
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Affrus: An OS X Perl IDE
When I last reviewed a Perl IDE, ActiveState’s Komodo, I was nearly convinced; the only problem was that I use Mac OS X. Now, Late Night Software, more commonly known for their AppleScript tools, have taken their Mac programming…
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Distributed Version Control with svk
I started to use Subversion one year ago and liked the elegant file-system design a lot. Soon it became impossible for me to go back to CVS. This means that I felt uncomfortable whenever I was working on projects…
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How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ...
There are a number of tools available for writing books. Many people would immediately reach for their favorite word processor, but having written one book using Microsoft Word I’m very unlikely to repeat the experience. Darren Chamberlain, Andy Wardley, and…
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Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl
Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl A Few Words About Vectors Getting Down To Business Building the Search Engine Making it Better Further Reading Why waste time reinventing the wheel, when you could be reinventing the engine?…
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Module::Build
Dave Rolsky is a co-author of the recently released Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason. This article was originally published in February of 2003, and was updated by Dave Rolsky and Michael Schwern in January, 2008. If you’ve ever…
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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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A Test::MockObject Illustrated Example
Perl’s Test::MockObject CPAN module helps you test troublesome interfaces. Learn how it works!
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Perl Builder IDE Debuts
Overview: Perl Builder, by Solutionsoft, is the first integrated development environment (IDE) for Perl. It allows you to develop and test Perl applications in a Windows 95/98/NT environment. Test Equipment: I tested Perl Builder on a machine with a…
