Jan 25, 2000 by Chris Nandor

RSS is Born Contents: • RSS is Born • XML::RSS • my_portal • Future of my_portal Netscape had one of the first “portals” on the Web, a place where users could go to get most of their information needs…

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Jan 12, 2000 by Kirrily ""Skud"" Robert

How to Create Coding Standards that Work One of the things that we love most about Perl is its flexibility, itssimilarity to natural language, and the fact that There’s More Than One Way To Do It. Of course, when…

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Dec 26, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Meta-Information Module Interface and Version Meta-Information SVs by Default Another return of PREPARE More Flushing Problems Array::Virtual #line directives DProf Various Notes Last year I fell behind on reports because I took three business trips in two weeks….

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Dec 20, 1999 by Adam Turoff

This summer, at yapc in Pittsburgh and again at the third Perl Conference, I was very fortunate to meet with a lot of friends from other regional Perl Monger groups. A lot of our groups have similar problems and…

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Dec 19, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Meta-Information More 5.005_63 Results $^H and %^H Perl RPMs Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Change to xsubpp Closed Filhandle in Signal Handler pad_findlex Needs to be Recursive Conversion Specifier Bug The Trivial Test eof() at the Beginning of…

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Dec 18, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

According to the perlhist man page, Perl was first released twelve years ago today, on December 18, 1987. Congratulations to Larry Wall on the occasion of Perl’s twelfth birthday!…

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Dec 12, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Meta-Information 5.005_63 Released Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Regex Optimizations PREPARE XSLoader Change to xsubpp Path Location New Improved File::Find DB_File Locking Technique use Parameters in XS Module Initializations next in XS-invoked Perl subroutines -Dp improvement Log::Agent Getopt::Long…

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Dec 5, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Meta-Information m//g in List Context eof() at the Beginning of the Input Shadow Passwords Continue Perl, EBCDIC, and Unicode lock Keyword Safe::Hole Change to xsubpp Euphoria Talarian SmartSockets perlxstut and perlxs Additions Reset umasks Mailling List Archives Unavailable…

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Nov 30, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Sins of Perl Revisited -> Sins of Perl Revisited Implicit Behaviors and Hidden Context Dependencies To Paren || ! To Paren? Global Variables References vs. Non-references No Prototypes No Compiler Support for I/O or Regex Objects Haphazard Exception Model New…

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Nov 28, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes New Meta-Information Thread Model Discussion Discussion of Line Disciplines Continues Shadow Passwords Bugs in NT Perl Sockets? Run Out of File Descriptors Lexical Variable Leak Control-Backslash Bitwise Operators Taint Bug? next Outside a Block Quiet List Various Notes…

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Nov 21, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

This week on perl5-porters (15-21 November 1999) Notes XSLoader.pm Threads Shared Interpreter threads (the current model) Cloned interpreter threads (upcoming in 5.005_63) chomp() Threading and Regexes Safe::Hole PREPARE Marshalling Modules Local Address in LWP local()izing select() and chdir() Wandering Environment…

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Nov 16, 1999 by Nathan Torkington

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Nov 14, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Lexical variables and eval More About Line Disciplines link on WinNT Regex Optimization Threads on Solaris Regex Engine Reentrancy Big Files Continue Regexp Objects again Unicode Support on EBCDIC Machines Marshalling Modules Got Perl? localtime() has Another Bug!…

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Nov 7, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes glob case-sensitivity D’oh::Year and Y2K warnings Threading and Regexes Change to xsubpp utf8 Needs a New Pumpking STOP blocks map and grep in void context Data::Dumper and Regexp objects sort improvements IPv6 and Socket.pm New quotation characters system…

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Nov 3, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes glob case-sensitivity Perl under UNICOS New perlthread man page Threading and explicit unlocking Threading and Regexes pack t Template Happy Birthday CPAN! Local Address in LWP Return of ref prototype $^O sort improvements Shell.pm enhancements. Time Zone Output…

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Oct 22, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

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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Oct 18, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Happy Birthday Perl 5 The first full release of Perl 5 was exactly five years ago, on 17 October, 1994. (Not 18 October as perlhist says.) Happy birthday, Perl, and congratulations to Larry and the cast of thousands! Oh, and…

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Oct 17, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

(11-17 October 1999) -> Introduction New Development Release 5.005_62 Unicode Character Classes Module Bundling and the proposed import pragma use fields allows overlapping member names PREPARE functions and my Class $foo declarations goto Out of Conditional Bug Regex Range Bug…

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Oct 17, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

(18-24 October 1999) -> $^O STOP blocks and the broken compiler Blank lines in POD PERL_HEADER environment variable Out of date modules in Perl distribution Enhanced UNIVERSAL::isa sort improvements glob case-sensitivity reftype function New perlthread man page Win32 and fork()…

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Oct 15, 1999 by Brett Berry and Lee Minniear

Table of Contents • Essential Perl/Tk Programming • A Graphic Authorizing Example • TK Overview • A Pay Calculator Example • Creating A Window • Adding A Menubar • Adding Choices To A Menubar • More Menubar Choices •…

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