Redhat perl. What a tragedy.
According to this google trends analysis Redhat, Centos and Fedora make up the majority of linux distributions used in production. All these have a... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: perl, unix-linux
Building an Online Game in PHP, Perl, or Ruby on Rails
The BuildingBrowsergames blog has had a long series of entries showing how to build an online game. Each entry has thus far been completed first in... more »
3 commentsSave Tags: games, perl, php, ruby
New Heights for web applications
When it comes to programming, more specifically the development of web applications, it is important to consider all the tools of the trade before... more »
4 commentsSave Tags: perl, php, ruby, web services
Why Corporates Hate Perl
bloid 
via oreillynet.com
It’s not true, of course. There are a still large number of large companies who love Perl. I could probably work through to my retirement enhancing... more »
1 commentsSave Tags: opinion, perl
The ascent of scripting languages
When you say “scripting language” these days, most programmers think of Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, ASP, or JavaScript. But the history of scripting... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: other languages, perl, python, ruby
Add Salt To Make Your Encryptions Better
There are few things that aren’t better once salt has been added, and encryptions are no different. Adding a salt can make a simple encryption... more »
1 commentsSave Tags: how-to, perl, php, security
Schwartzian Transforms in Java
Libraries like Java's Collections API contain numerous algorithms tuned to give good performance in a theoretical 'typical case', but it can be very... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: how-to, java, perl
Performance of Python, PHP and Perl
Performance comparison between a few languages for a simple parse and load database task.
0 commentsSave Tags: perl, php, python
Software Development Automation with Scripting Languages
The Scripting languages are deployed in many operative systems, either in UNIX/Linux or Windows. These languages are developed for general purpose... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: how-to, methodology, perl
Java Swings, you say? Are you crazy?
Almost half of the Resumes I get to interview on Swing, write: “Swings” instead of “Swing”. They don’t seem to do the same mistake with other... more »
3 commentsSave Tags: humor, java, perl, ruby
5 web development techniques to prevent Google from crawling your HTML forms
5 web development techniques to prevent Google from crawling your HTML forms. do you really want Googlebot messing around in your HTML forms? Probably... more »
1 commentsSave Tags: css-html, perl, php, security
Perl is not going away
bloid via contentment.org
I’ve been taking DDJ for a couple years now. It’s cheap and occasionally has something interesting in it, but it’s been less interesting than I... more »
2 commentsSave Tags: opinion, perl
App Engine with Ruby, Python, and Perl
bloid via almaer.com
I had a fair amount of email from people, and saw some blogs, complaining about the fact that Google App Engine currently supports Python only. On the... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: opinion, perl, python, ruby
Analyzing Keyword Activity on Coding Horror
Coding Horror makes its traffic stats publicly available. Unfortunately just the last 500 records are available. I wrote a program to accumulate... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: how-to, perl
10 Perl modules all Java developers should know
bloid via articles.techrepublic.com.com
There are numerous CPAN modules which are designed to import Java classes into Perl scripts or access Java APIs like Swing, JDBC and JNI. This... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: java, perl
Do not learn Perl
A tongue-in-cheek response to a recent blog post about Ruby
6 commentsSave Tags: humor, opinion, perl
Zip-ability of source code
Some computing languages are more verbose than others. Some frameworks are more DRY than others. What's the compression ratio of source code?
2 commentsSave Tags: java, perl, python, ruby
So I Don't Like Perl. Sue Me.
A number of folks commented on the last post about my "ignorant and apparently unsupported swipes against Parrot and Perl".
1 commentsSave Tags: opinion, perl
Perlisms in Ruby: regular expression syntaxes
Ruby heavily borrowed from Smalltalk, Lisp and Perl. While trying to make Hpricot test suite run fine on Ruby 1.9.0 author found regular expressions... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: perl, ruby
TIOBE Declares Python the Programming Language of 2007
The TIOBE Programming Community Index has declared Python as the Programming Language of 2007 due to a surge in its popularity rating during the year,... more »
5 commentsSave Tags: c-and-cpp, java, perl, python
The most useful perl program in the world
This little gem of a perl has so many uses. I can think of about 11 right now. Now i must make an application which uses this code. Note: this works... more »
2 commentsSave Tags: open source, perl, tools, usability
What the Perl 6 and Parrot Hackers Did on their Christmas Vacation
bloid via oreillynet.com
A running joke in the Perl 6 world is that we’ll release a stable Perl 6.0.0 by Christmas. We just won’t tell you which Christmas. As many... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: other languages, perl
bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel'
Suppose you are running ssh to some system called neptune, which doesn't necessarily have your editor of choice (e.g., gvim for this guy) installed.... more »
0 commentsSave Tags: perl, tools, unix-linux
New Book - Catalyst: Accelerating Perl Web Application Development
* Understand the Catalyst Framework and MVC architecture * Build and test a site with Catalyst * Detailed walkthroughs to create sample... more »
1 commentsSave Tags: books, frameworks, perl
Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...
I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can't define it, but I'll know it when I see it. Here are some common memes floating... more »
1 commentsSave Tags: opinion, perl
