Note to self: It’s generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on the day you return from holiday. It’s especially not a good idea to fail to check that it didn’t completely and utterly radish your Postfix…
In a recent lightning article, Customizing Emacs with Perl, Bob DuCharme explained how to use the Emacs shell-command-on-region function to invoke a Perl script on a marked region of text. Bob writes that he was reluctant to invest the…
You have set up and configured various wireless access devices, but could not find one that included all of the features you needed. You could wait for a firmware upgrade from your manufacturer, hoping that they will include the…
All~ Welcome ot another fortnight’s summary. Wouldn’t it just figure that I can’t think of anything sufficiently non-sequiterish to amuse myself. Perhaps I need a running gag like Leon Brocard or chromatic’s cummingesque capitalization. Maybe I should start one…
An interview with Richard Dice, who helped organize Perl’s YAPC::NA 2005 in Toronto.
This article is a case study of the use of Perl and XML/RDF technologies to channel disparate sources of data into a semi-structured repository. This repository helped to build structured OLAP warehouses by mining an RDF repository with SAX…
All, Welcome to another week’s summary. This week I shall endeavor not to delete my summary accidentally or destroy the world. Here we go with p6c. Perl 6 Compilers Implicit $_ on for Loops Kiran Kumar found a bug…
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 2005-04-26 It’s my turn again. What fun. “What,” I hear you all ask, “has been going on in the crazy, mixed-up world of Perl 6 design and development?” Read this summary…
An interview with long-time Perl programmer and author, brian d foy. His book Mastering Perl recently came out in its second edition.
Getting My Feet Wet My first glimpse of the Internet happened at Lotus Development somewhere around 1994. A Mosaic demonstration duly impressed me. A few months later, working at a small Cambridge, MA company called Dataware brought me closer…
All~ Sadly, a slip of the mouse caused me to delete a partially completed summary, so I am going to push ahead on the rewrite without a witty intro. Feel free to make one up for yourself involving stuffed…
When you are planning to release a module to CPAN, one of your first tasks is figure out what OS, Perl version(s), and other environments you will and will not support. Often, the answers will come from what you…
Whoa! Deja vu! Where’d Matt go? Don’t worry, Matt’s still writing summaries. As you may have noticed, Matt’s been writing summaries every two weeks. Now so am I. Because we love you, we’ve decided to arrange things so I…
The last Perl Code Kata was on DBD::Mock, a mock DBI driver which is useful for testing Perl DBI applications. This Kata delves once again into the world of mock objects, this time using the more general Test::MockObject module….
Perl 6 Language ceil and floor Ingo Blechschmidt wondered if ceil and floor would be in the core. Warnock applies, although Unicode operators would let me define circumfix \lfloor \rfloor (although I only know how to make those symbols…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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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