Entries tagged with “perl” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Hey look! It's another tag cloud. This is a map of my interests for the past few weeks, based on the bookmarks I have been saving to my del.icio.us account.Del.icio.us will make tag clouds for you, but sometimes you just have to roll your own. So I wrote an article about how to make these amorphous wonders in Perl...

I think every programmer has their own internal Oscar and Felix. I've heard myself take both the Oscar and Felix sides of many design debates. But like most programmers, I tend to let one of them express himself a bit more.

Damian Conway managed to hurt my brain tonight. Who else could tie the Game of Life, Klingon, demons and perl together? My mind is still spinning from Damian's "Life, the Universe and Everything" presentation this evening.

I'm starting to worry about Perl -- after hearing tons of interesting stuff about Perl 6 for the last two OSCONs we're still years away from a stable beta of Perl 6. Is perl going to be eclipsed by another faster, more nimble language?

This story came to me from Ettore Vecchione -- Computer Science Lecturer, IT Specialist, Director of the Computer Learning Center and Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Science of John Cabot University. Read on to find out how Perl, Apache and MySQL, this Open Source trio, is now playing a lovely tune to the ears of everyone at the University.

Perl, through Project Breeze, has made it possible for the School of Natural and Physical Sciences (SNPS) at the University of Papua New Guinea, to accommodate the new academic calendar while handling the affairs of its students with far more accuracy and efficiency.

Patrick Carmichael, a lecturer at the University of Reading in the UK, sent me this story. In addition to teaching teachers to use new technologies, he carries out research into how low-cost network technologies can be used to support civil-society projects, effect social change, and aid in conflict resolution around the world.

James McGowan, a consultant for Barclays Bank at their technology center in Cheshire, England, sent me this story about an internal ordering system eSL(electronic Service Point) he designed and developed.

Here is another Perl success story from Jay Lawrence, writing in to the mod_perl mailing list. EDDS is a customized document management system.

Here is a Perl success story that was originally posted by Chris Benson to the Perl advocacy mailing list.

This story was sent to the Perl Advocacy mailing list and I thought I'd share it with you. The Template Generator is a Perl script that creates Web pages using an XML-based site description.

Do you have a Perl success story that you'd like to share? I'm also interested in hearing about how Perl and Mac OS X play together.

This story came from Jay Lawrence, writing in to the mod_perl mailing list. TERMIUMplus is a trilingual application that allows translators and terminologists to search a collection of 1.5 million entries in English, French and Spanish.

Weeks after the movie industry shutdown 2600 magazine for publishing the DeCSS code, a couple of MIT students have found a way to descramble DVD's using only 7 lines of Perl.