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This Week on Perl 6, Fortnight Ending 2004-06-06
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Web Testing with HTTP::Recorder
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-23
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Affrus: An OS X Perl IDE
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-09
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Building Testing Libraries
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-02
So, May Day didn’t quite knock me for six this year (but being up at 4am on Newcastle Town Moor on Saturday morning to welcome in the summer with a bunch of rapper dancers is guaranteed to leave a chap…
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Rapid Web Application Deployment with Maypole : Part 2
When we last left our intrepid web developer, he had successfully set up an online sales catalogue in 11 lines of code. Now, however, he has to move on to turning this into a sales site with a shopping…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-04-25
And we’re back on a weekly schedule again (unless the Mayday bank holiday knocks me for six next week). As I expected, the Apocalypse has brought out a rash of prophets and prognosticators in perl6-language, but perl6-internals is still…
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Rapid Web Application Deployment with Maypole
You have a database. You have a web server. You have a deadline. Whether it’s bringing up an e-commerce storefront for a new venture, implementing a new front-end to HR’s employee database, or even providing a neat way to…
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This Fortnight on Perl 6, Weeks Ending 2004-04-18
The only problem with summarizing two week’s worth of Perl 6 happenings is that there’s twice as much stuff to summarize. Still, there’s no way I could have made the time to write a summary last week so I’ll…
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Apocalypse 12
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Using Bloom Filters
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-04-04
Wednesday? Why did I leave it ’til Wednesday to write the summary? I must have some reason. Or maybe not. I’ll give fair warning that I won’t be doing a summary for next week though, what with Easter and everything,…
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Photo Galleries with Mason and Imager
Creating a photo gallery is usually considered a daunting task. Lots of people have tried it, not many have succeeded. One of the reasons for so many similar projects is that they don’t often integrate well into an existing…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-28
… and we’re back! Another interesting week in Perl 6. Your Summarizer even wrote some [parrot] code and it’s been simply ages since he did that. In accordance with ancient custom, we’ll start the summary with perl6-internals. Building with…
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