May 15, 2001 by Damian Conway

Exegesis 2 -> Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 2 for the current design information. exegesis: n. an interpretation and explanation of a text, esp. Holy Writ This is the…

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May 13, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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May 6, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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May 6, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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May 3, 2001 by Larry Wall

Apocalypse 2 -> Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for histor ic reasons. See Syn opsis 02 for the latest information. Perl 6 Apocalypse The rest of the “Apocalypse” series is available on Larry…

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May 1, 2001 by Pete Sergeant

Regular Expressions are arguably one of Perl’s most useful and powerful tools. The ability to match complex strings is one of the things that makes Perl the effective “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language” that it is. The regular expression…

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Apr 29, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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Apr 23, 2001 by Paul Kulchenko

Table of Contents •Quick Start with SOAP Part I •More Complex Server (daemon, mod_perl and mod_soap) •Access to Remote Services •Access With Service Description (WSDL) •Security (SSL, basic/digest authentication, cookie-based authentication, ticket-based authentication, access control) •Handling LoLs (List of…

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Apr 22, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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Apr 17, 2001 by Shawn Ribordy

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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Apr 15, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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Apr 10, 2001 by Pete Sergeant

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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Apr 8, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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Apr 2, 2001 by Larry Wall

Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 01 for the latest information. Table of Contents •RFC 141: This Is The Last Major Revision •RFC 28: Perl should stay Perl •RFC…

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Apr 1, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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Mar 27, 2001 by Joe Nasal

Table of Contents •Program overview •Initialization •The callbacks •Conclusion Gnome is the desktop environment of choice on my home Linux system because it is feature-packed and user friendly. Gnome is also flexible, and thanks to the Gtk-Perl module and…

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Mar 26, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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Mar 21, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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Mar 20, 2001 by chromatic

Many database projects use ORMs and other helpers, but using Perl’s DBI by itself is easier and faster than you might think.

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Mar 19, 2001 by Simon Cozens

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