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Perl in the shell
Blog I’ve just spent the last couple of days working with a great guy called Jason Froebe on a Perl tutorial that really digs deep into making sure developers know that it is a fully-featured language and yet - all I see on the IT news-o-meter is...
[September 10, 2008, 12:12]
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 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 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]
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 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 Dev Kit (Windows)
Downloads The Perl Dev Kit (PDK) provides essential tools for Perl programmers, making it simple to build and deploy applications. PDK features application builders for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX; plus a suite of tools to speed...
[December 23, 2008, 15:00]
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 Dev Kit
Downloads The Perl Dev Kit (PDK) provides essential tools for Perl programmers, making it simple to build and deploy applications. PDK features application builders for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX; plus a suite of tools to speed...
[June 26, 2009, 19:11]
Perl Code Library
Downloads Perl Code Library makes it very easy to manage your source code (30+ languages supported), keep your code organized, save your data in a secure encrypted database, paste your favorites code snippets quickly, synchronize rapidly changing data with...
[October 22, 2008, 11:57]
Retrieve data from a PostgreSQL database using the power of Perl
White Papers This document demonstrates how the Perl DBI can be used to communicate with the open-source PostgreSQL database system. The Perl DBI module acts as a powerful database abstraction layer, which offers an integrated set of functions for interacting...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
PrimeBase Perl DBD Module
Downloads The PrimeBase Perl DBD Module supports all features of the PrimeBase SQL Database Server, including transactions and BLOBs (binary large objects). Also Prepared Statements are supported.
[October 1, 2002, 8:00]
Yahoo! Hacks: Program Yahoo! With Perl
White Papers Perl is great for getting things done quickly, and fetching search results from Yahoo! with Perl, using minimal code. that one can drop into one's own Perl scripts, or that one can use as a starting point for more complex applications.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Advanced Perl Programming: Templating Tools
White Papers A recent thread on comp.lang.perl.moderated enumerated the Perl rites of passage - the perfectly good wheels that every journeyman Perl programmer reinvents. This paper looks at a few of the available templating tools that are commonly used in Perl...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Siemens Business Services Chooses Perl for Its Landmark Application
White Papers Bringing this database into the digital age posed serious problems for Siemens Business Services, until the development team discovered Perl. With more than 95,000 applications for title transfer per year, Siemens' U.K.government customer, the...
[September 13, 2006, 0:00]
Perl in the shell
Blog Comment The only thing I can say is that if you Google: "Perl in the shell" - you won't find many people (I can only find me) that have ever used that title and I think it's a REALLY obvious one that's kind of cute too.
[September 10, 2008, 13:44]
Perl in the shell
Blog Comment I remember the excitement of getting and reading the Bell Systems Technical Journal issues on Unix development (and Plan 9, for that matter), I remember when Perl version 1 came out, and I remember when Niklaus Wirth was developing, and writing...
[September 10, 2008, 13:41]
Perl in the shell
Blog Comment Adrian, go for a Commore PET emulator (http://www.viceteam.org) instead of just looking at the photos of a Commodore PET. An emulator is much more fun ;-)
[September 10, 2008, 17:21]
Perl in the shell
Blog Comment You made a great point there Jason - we are usually platform specific with these kind of in depth pieces and that can put you off if it's not your preferred flavour of code. That's why I used to be involved with a title that aimed to be 'cross...
[September 10, 2008, 16:35]
