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Perl Flaw More Dangerous Than Thought
News A type of security flaw in Perl applications that experts thought could lead only to a denial-of-service attack is now believed to be much more serious. Dyad Security on Tuesday warned of a so-called "format string vulnerability" in Webmin, a Web...
[November 30, 2005, 9:10]
Perl Enters The Oxford English Dictionary
White Papers Perl figures heavily in the production of a historic institution - the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, the publishing arm of the University of Oxford, which publishes the dictionary, has used Perl for a number of years.
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Perl Keeps Golf Dream Alive
White Papers When the Senior Manager of Systems Development at Charles Jones, LLC realized that his company's monthly sales reporting system threatened to curtail his dream of golfing on Friday afternoons he turned to Perl for help.
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Perl Is Precious To Venezuelan ISP
White Papers This is where Perl really helped them make all this a success. As part of his job at the largest ISP in the country, a Systems Manager at Cantv.net is in charge of all the aspects of the logical service provisioning for ADSL customers.
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Perl Excels At Quick Add-Ons To Existing Applications
White Papers One of Perl's most successful aspects is its ability to handle small, urgent tasks that must mesh with an existing structure. He accomplished this task by using an existing Perl script. The manager for the Enterprise Network Applications...
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Perl For Web Site Management: Parsing Web Access Logs
White Papers One can buy commercial log analysis software to do this, but Perl makes it easy to write one's own. Web server access logs are an excellent source of information about what the site's visitors are up to.
[October 18, 2007, 0:00]
Perl Is Instrumental In Data Warehouse For Italy's Top Bank
White Papers The data migration for that system was primarily written in Perl and heavily uses the Perl DBI. UniCredito Italiano (UCI) is a 2,600-branch group of banks with roots tracing back to Renaissance times and the old merchant bankers of Milan.
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Perl Advent Calendar Opens Its Doors
News The Perl Advent Calendar makes its fifth appearance this year, bringing festive cheer to the development community. The calendar, a product of the London Perl Mongers user group, reviews a different Perl module every day from the 1st to the 25th...
[December 2, 2004, 11:45]
Perl Language Gets A Revamp
News The Perl Foundation last week released the latest version of the programming language, Perl 5.10. Perl 5.0 has some features designed to make programming a little easier, according to the Perl Foundation.
[December 27, 2007, 10:50]
Perl Warnings Toned Down
News The Perl Foundation has toned down a warning on a type of vulnerability commonly found in applications written in the Perl programming language. Two weeks after experts sounded an alarm on format-string flaws in Perl applications, changes have been...
[December 16, 2005, 9:10]
Perl Flaw More Dangerous Than Thought
Talkback This problem is with a function, "printf", which is not unique to Perl, but which is used in other languages such as C and Java. That is the fault of the programmer, not of Perl, C, or anyone else. Any language using the printf function is...
[December 8, 2005, 5:19]
Carnegie Mellon University: Perl Brings Everything Together - Quickly
White Papers At Carnegie Mellon University, Perl figures in robotics applications development more times than ONE can count. They use Perl constantly - from simple CGIs, to application 'Glue,' to fully functional speech synthesizers written in Perl.
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Perl Helps Heal Swiss Hospital's Database Migration Pain
White Papers This case study explains how Perl enabled the project manager in the computer department of the University Hospital of Lausanne to work around some messy stuff and simplify the migration from an Ingres to an Oracle Database.
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Perl Runs Sweden's Pension System
White Papers Given the time crunch, the team built the application (known as Pluto) with Perl, using an Oracle database. By the spring of 2000, Swedish government officials were pretty nervous. The delivery date on a major computer application was already a...
[September 13, 2006, 0:00]
Perl Flaw More Dangerous Than Thought
Talkback Why is this a Perl vulnerability? Perl is written in C, so couldn't this also be called a C vulnerability? Put the blame where it belongs, on Webmin, not on the language in which it was written.
[November 30, 2005, 19:53]
Perl Testing: Distributing Your Tests (and Code)
White Papers Perl has several tools and techniques to distribute tests and test the non-code portions of the projects. The goal of all testing is to improve the quality of code. Quality isn't just the absence of bugs and features behaving as intended.
[October 17, 2007, 0:00]
The Perl Language
White Papers This paper is a quick and merciless guide to the Perl language itself. If one is trying to learn Perl from scratch and would prefer to be taught rather than to have things thrown at them, then one might be better off with Learning Perl, 3rd Edition...
[October 18, 2007, 0:00]
Mastering Perl For Bioinformatics: Introduction To Bioperl
White Papers Bioperl is a collection of more than 500 Perl modules for bioinformatics that have been written and maintained by an international group of volunteers. Bioperl is free (under a very unrestrictive copyright), and its home is http://bioperl.org.
[October 24, 2007, 0:00]
Bottom-Up Application Programming With Perl
White Papers A major UK bank wanted a Perl guru, but would settle for someone 'Who knew a bit about everything'. While Perl may not have seemed the obvious choice for such a system, the existing system was already using it, and they wanted the existing...
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Easy Healthcare Billing With Perl
White Papers The software project manager at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, wrote the whole billing application in Perl 5.8.0, using DBI 1.37 and DBD Oracle 1.14. Billing applications usually contain complex rules that transform raw activity...
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
