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Simple IO Handling with IO::All
Perl module author extraordinaire Brian Ingerson demonstrates his latest creation. IO::All ties together almost all of Perl's IO handling libraries in one neat, cohesive package.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-07
Work on objects for Parrot continues, while the perl6-internals list gets dragged into a discussion about date/time handling; the & multimatching operator appears, and a question about detecting undefined subs on the language list.
[Perl.com]
Distributed Version Control with svk
What started off for Chia-liang Kao as a wrapper around the Subversion version control system rapidly turned into a fully-fledged distributed VCS itself -- all, of course, in Perl.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-29
More on Parrot's objects, plus some discussion of the Perl 6 release timescale. Will we see Perl 6 this century?
[Perl.com]
Exegesis 7
Damian Conway explains how formatting will work in Perl 6 -- with a twist...
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-22
It had to happen some day - someone wrote obfuscated Parrot assembler. Objects are nearly there, and the fight over "sort" cotinues.
[Perl.com]
Find What You Want with Plucene
Plucene is a Perl port of the Java Lucene search-engine framework. In this article, we'll look at how to use Plucene to build a search engine to index a web site.
[Perl.com]
Cleaning iPhoto
When you have thousands of images in iPhoto, and don't have time to cull them manually, scripting starts to look very appealing. brian d foy shows you some helpful AppleScripts and Perl scripts you can use to clean up your iPhoto libraries.
[MacDevCenter.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-15
Parrot gains Data::Dumper, sort and nearly system(), while the language list struggles to agree on the best way to represent multi-level and multi-key sorting.
[Perl.com]
Mail to WAP Gateways
Ever needed to quickly check your email while you're away from your computer? Pete Sergeant devises a way to convert a mailbox into a WAP page for you to easily check over the phone.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-08
This week, the internals team attack the challenges posed by garbage collection and threading, while the Unicode operators debate rages on over at the language list. Piers Cawley has the details.
[Perl.com]
Siesta Mailing List Manager
Majordomo is past its best, and many Perl Mongers groups rely on ezmlm or Mailman. Why isn't there a decent Perl-based mailing list manager? Simon Wistow and others from London.pm decided to do something about it ... and came up with Siesta.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-01
Lots of little clean-ups done to Parrot this week, while the Perl 6 language design focuses on vector operations and Unicode operators.
[Perl.com]
How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ...
When Dave Cross, Andy Wardley, and Darren Chamberlain got together to write the Perl Template Toolkit book, they decided to write it in Plain Old Documentation. Dave shows us how the Template Toolkit itself transformed that for publication.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-25
The internals list is concerned with threading a smattering of other things; the language list debates vector operators and syntax mangling. Piers, as ever, fills us in.
[Perl.com]
Introducing Mac::Glue
Now that Apple computers are all the rage again, we describe how the technically inclined can use Perl to script Mac applications.
[Perl.com]
The State of Perl
A new year is a good time to take a look at the state Perl's in: its weaknesses, strengths, and future directions. Adam Turoff takes a long look at where Perl's going and why, and finds that Perl 6 doesn't have to be the last, great hope.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-04
Dan calls for detailed suggestions for the Parrot threading model, and Piers makes up for the lack of activity in the language list by asking a few key players about their New Year hopes for Perl 6.
[Perl.com]
Blosxoms, Bryars and Blikis
How to add a blog, wiki, or some combination of the two to almost anything.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-12-07
Objects all round - Parrot gets objects, and there was much rejoicing. Meanwhile, Larry lifts parts of the veil on the Perl 6 object model. Piers Cawley has the details.
[Perl.com]
How Perl Powers the Squeezebox
The Squeezebox is a hardware-based ethernet and wireless MP3 player from Slim Devices; its server is completely written in Perl, and is open and hackable. We talked to the Squeezebox developers about Perl, open source, and third-party Squeezebox hacking.
[Perl.com]
This fortnight on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-23
Dan returns from LL3 with new ideas, what "multi" really means, and more on the Perl 6 design philosophy - Piers Cawley sums up two weeks on the Perl 6 and Parrot mailing lists.
[Perl.com]
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