Exegesis
7 for Perl 6 -- At first glance, Perl 6 may seem
like something of a backwards step--it has extra quotation marks and
commas that Perl 5 didn't require. But the new formatting interface
does have several distinct advantages. Damian Conway explains. Get all
of O'Reilly's Perl books and articles at perl.oreilly.com.
A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, of Course--Or Is It? Perl classes and subroutines can get your horses to neigh, but you'll need to establish an instance and instance variables to distinguish between the Palomino and the Clydesdale. Find out how in Chapter 9 of Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules, the book that picks up where Learning Perl leaves off. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial subscription.
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How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book -- There are a number of tools available for writing books. Authors Dave Cross, Darren Chamberlain,
and Andy Wardley are all Perl hackers, so when they got together to write a book, it didn't take them long to agree to use POD (Plain Old Documentation). Here's how they practiced what they preached with Perl Template Toolkit.
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Spidering Hacks -- Want to save time as well as extra trips to your favorite web sites? Here are two hacks--the first on using Template::Extract, a Perl module that allows you to scrape a web page to generate RSS feeds; and the second on using a program called dailystrips to grab all your favorite online comic strips in one HTML file--excerpted from the recently released Spidering Hacks.
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A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part 2 -- In the conclusion
to his two-part series on using Perl in the bioinformatics realm, James Tisdall shows how references can speed up a subroutine call, how to bypass the overhead of
subroutine calls entirely, and how to quantify the behavior of your code.
James is the
author of Mastering Perl for
Bioinformatics.
A Chromosome at a Time with Perl -- James Tisdall offers a handful of tricks that will enable Perl programmers to write performance-efficient code for dealing with large amounts of biological sequence data. James is the author of the upcoming Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics.
Cooking with Perl -- Learn how to use SQL without a
database server and how to send attachments in mail, in the latest sample
recipes from O'Reilly's recently released Perl Cookbook, 2nd
Edition.
Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions -- Tony Stubblebine shows how to avoid a lot of trial and error in your regular expression development by adopting these five habits, applicable to nearly any regex implementation. Tony is the author of Regular
Expression Pocket Reference.
Cooking with Perl -- The second edition of Perl Cookbook is about to hit the streets. Get
a taste of what we've cooked up with these sample recipes on『Matching
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Exegesis 6 -- Damian Conway explains how the new syntax and semantics of subroutines in Perl 6 make for cleaner, simpler, and more powerful code. For a list of O'Reilly's Perl books and articles, see perl.oreilly.com.
Perl Programming Syntax Summary -- Do you know what push(@{$bob->{'exp'}}, {bob=>1}); means? Appendix B of Advanced Perl Programming provides a complete distillation of all the Perl syntax used in the book. For a free trial and the opportunity to read this and four
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State of the Onion 2003 -- In this full-length transcript of Larry Wall's annual report on the state of Perl, Larry talks about being unreasonable, unwilling, and impossible.
An Interview with the Author of Practical mod_perl -- In this ONLamp.com interview with chromatic, Stas Bekman talks about his work, mod_perl 2, and what it's like to be sponsored to work on free software full-time. Stas is the author of O'Reilly's recently released Practical mod_perl.
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