Photo Galleries with Mason and Imager
One of the major problems with the plethora of photo gallery software available is that very few of them integrate well with existing sites. Casey West comes up with a new approach using Imager and Mason to fit in with Mason sites.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-28
The language list is relatively quiet, but the Parrot implementors are haunted by continuations this week. Piers has the full story.
[Perl.com]
Cookie Specification Vulnerabilities
For years, privacy-minded people have distrusted cookies in web browsers. While recent advances have improved privacy concerns, the specification leaves room for easy attacks. Alexander Prohorenko explains the situation and tests several recent browsers. Is it time for a new cookie specification?
[ONLamp.com]
Eleven Metrics to Monitor for a Happy and Healthy Squid
Duane Wessels offers 11 tips to help you stay on top of Squid's performance. If you follow this advice, you should be able to discover problems before your users begin calling you to complain. Duane is the creator of Squid and the author of Squid: The Definitive Guide.
[ONLamp.com]
Making Dictionaries with Perl
Sean Burke is a linguist who helps save dying languages by creating dictionaries for them. He shows us how he uses Perl to layout and print these dictionaries.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-21
Concerns about embedding and a new release of Tcl on Parrot occupy the internals mailing list, while the language list experiences some surprise about changes to the hash subscriptor syntax.
[Perl.com]
Synopsis 3
In this synopsis, Luke Palmer provides us with an updated view of Perl 6's operators.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-14
Benchmarks, Ponie and even Ruby drive on Parrot development this week, while the language team discuss methods that mutate their objects and properties that call actions on variables.
[Perl.com]
Simple IO Handling with IO::All
Perl module author extraordinaire Brian Ingerson demonstrates his latest creation. IO::All ties together almost all of Perl's IO handling libraries in one neat, cohesive package.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-07
Work on objects for Parrot continues, while the perl6-internals list gets dragged into a discussion about date/time handling; the & multimatching operator appears, and a question about detecting undefined subs on the language list.
[Perl.com]
Distributed Version Control with svk
What started off for Chia-liang Kao as a wrapper around the Subversion version control system rapidly turned into a fully-fledged distributed VCS itself -- all, of course, in Perl.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-29
More on Parrot's objects, plus some discussion of the Perl 6 release timescale. Will we see Perl 6 this century?
[Perl.com]
Exegesis 7
Damian Conway explains how formatting will work in Perl 6 -- with a twist...
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-22
It had to happen some day - someone wrote obfuscated Parrot assembler. Objects are nearly there, and the fight over "sort" cotinues.
[Perl.com]
Find What You Want with Plucene
Plucene is a Perl port of the Java Lucene search-engine framework. In this article, we'll look at how to use Plucene to build a search engine to index a web site.
[Perl.com]
Cleaning iPhoto
When you have thousands of images in iPhoto, and don't have time to cull them manually, scripting starts to look very appealing. brian d foy shows you some helpful AppleScripts and Perl scripts you can use to clean up your iPhoto libraries.
[MacDevCenter.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-15
Parrot gains Data::Dumper, sort and nearly system(), while the language list struggles to agree on the best way to represent multi-level and multi-key sorting.
[Perl.com]
Mail to WAP Gateways
Ever needed to quickly check your email while you're away from your computer? Pete Sergeant devises a way to convert a mailbox into a WAP page for you to easily check over the phone.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-08
This week, the internals team attack the challenges posed by garbage collection and threading, while the Unicode operators debate rages on over at the language list. Piers Cawley has the details.
[Perl.com]
Siesta Mailing List Manager
Majordomo is past its best, and many Perl Mongers groups rely on ezmlm or Mailman. Why isn't there a decent Perl-based mailing list manager? Simon Wistow and others from London.pm decided to do something about it ... and came up with Siesta.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-01
Lots of little clean-ups done to Parrot this week, while the Perl 6 language design focuses on vector operations and Unicode operators.
[Perl.com]
How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ...
When Dave Cross, Andy Wardley, and Darren Chamberlain got together to write the Perl Template Toolkit book, they decided to write it in Plain Old Documentation. Dave shows us how the Template Toolkit itself transformed that for publication.
[Perl.com]
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-25
The internals list is concerned with threading a smattering of other things; the language list debates vector operators and syntax mangling. Piers, as ever, fills us in.
[Perl.com]
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