For those of you who are Perl or PHP programmers and who also do heavy testing, there's an excellent chance that you've heard of TAP, the Test Anything Protocol. It's easy to implement, easy to parse, and is gaining in popularity. Because it's being implemented so widely, we've decided to form an IETF working group and we need your help.
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The DBD and DBD libraries are among the oldest and most successful perl libraries and existence, pretty much any perl program that talks to a database uses them. The creator of DBD, Tim Bunce, spent some time at OSCON 2008 talking to O'Reilly News about the history of DBD and how Tim has managed such a large and critical project.
Damian Conway has a well-deserved reputation as the mad scientist of Perl. His opening night keynote at OSCON 2008 combined Perl programming, the difference engine, quantum mechanics, and general relativity to produce variables which travel backwards in time.
Perl hacker and Googler Brad Fitzpatrick just announced a Google-supported, community-driven project to support the Perl language on Google's App Engine.
- Creating Location-aware Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Geospatial Platform
- TCP/IP Troubleshooting for System Administrators
- People for Geeks
- Practical Erlang Programming
- Porting to Python 3.0
- Hack This App! PHP Security Workshop
Modern Perl development is quick, easy, powerful, and maintainable. Doug Sheppard and chromatic demonstrate how to find and manipulate text in documents with regular expressions.
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