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Perl 6 May Finally be Forthcoming
[2010-07-27] Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, has an ongoing joke that he likes to tell during his annual "State of the Onion" speech. He says that Perl 6 will be ready for release by Christmas. The joke lies in that he doesn't say Christmas of which year.
Connecting with Databases in Perl
[2010-07-13] Perl is often a strong counterpart to databases because of its ability to parse and manipulate large blocks of text efficiently. When databases are storing this type of data, utilizing Perl can alleviate some of the heaving lifting that SQL or another language might have to do in order to make certain operations on that data.
Search and Replace A Block of Text with Perl
[2010-06-29] Searching for and then replacing text is such a fundamental function in computing that I was eager to take the opportunity to do such an operation over a large website still being served via static HTML pages.
PERL Loops
[2010-06-15] There are several different flavors of loops available when coding in PERL. The four most commonly used loops are the while loop, the until loop, the for loop, and the foreach loop. Below you will find a quick tutorial on how each is used.
A Whole New World (Wide Web)
[2010-06-01] Although Perl may not be able to produce flying carpets, blue genies, or beautiful Arab princesses, it can be used for nearly limitless other applications. One of Perl's greatest strengths is playing nice with other programming languages, and thus why it may be valuable to experiment with wrapping popular APIs into a Perl script that can be used by the application(s) of your choice.
Perl's Staying Power Advertised Again
[2010-05-18] ActiveState is a company that specializes in dynamic languages, and whether or not you've heard of it, it's quite successful, with a long list of customers that includes impressive organizations like Cisco, HP, and Lockheed Martin. Which sets Perl professionals up for a nice surprise, because ActiveState's director of engineering has argued that Perl is here to stay.
10 Perl Foundation/Parrot Foundation Projects Accepted For Google SoC
[2010-05-04] Not too long ago, we talked about Google's annual Summer of Code program and its potential importance to Perl. Now, that importance has been more or less confirmed, as the Perl Foundation and the Parrot Foundation have had ten projects made part of the agenda.
Perl 5.12.0 Released
[2010-04-20] A new version of Perl has arrived, and it should prove deserving of a very warm welcome. Perl 5.12.0 was a long time coming, and it represents a significantly more advanced offering than what was available before this release.
BioPerl Makes Google Summer Of Code Cut
[2010-04-02] Google's annual Summer of Code is a rather big deal, bringing together excellent students from all over the world to work on open source software projects. And so it should be a big deal for the Perl community that BioPerl has been accepted into the Summer of Code 2010.
Perl-AdWords Crisis Foreseen, Averted
[2010-03-18] It looks like the Perl community suffered a close call at the hands of a certain search giant. Although allowances have now been made, John Napiorkowski stated early yesterday, "on April 22nd SIGNIFICANT FUNCTIONALITY WILL PERMANENTLY BREAK FOR EVERY PERL APPLICATION USING GOOGLE ADWORDS API."
Perl Connects To Gene Expression Studies
[2010-03-02] The dynamic programming language everyone knows and loves may play an important role in understanding how human beings - and/or all other sorts of species - work. Perl, it turns out, is being used to help people gather better data from gene expression studies.
Demand For Perl Programmers On The Rise
[2010-02-16] Relative to several other programming languages, Perl just might be growing more important. An analysis of hiring trends has determined that there's starting to be a greater demand for Perl experts in the workplace.
Leading Perl Development Companies Named
[2010-02-05] Different individuals may react to this list of businesses in different ways, perhaps sending congratulatory notes or their resumes, choosing to study it, or just attaching it to a dartboard. But regardless, bestwebdesignagencies.com has named what it believes to be the 10 best Perl development companies.
Microsoft Angers CPAN Testers
[2010-01-19] Apple lovers, rejoice; Microsoft's standing with the overall Perl community took a serious turn for the worse last week. Indeed, while it might not be wise to speculate about motives (this could've been an accident), Microsoft effectively assaulted the CPAN Testers Reports site, and people aren't amused.
The 13th Month
[2010-01-05] It's the beginning of a new year and a headache for many businesses. This is the time of the year when many customers are not accustomed to putting the new year down or what one of my college professors would call, the 13th month.
Perl 5.11.2 Lands
[2009-12-08] Another month's passed, and there are still more signs of progress in the march towards a stable release of Perl 5.12.0 as Perl 5.11.2 has become available. It counts as the third development release in the 5.11.x series.
Formatting your Perl code
[2009-11-24] I have worked with many programmers working with many different languages, so I am used to seeing code formatted different ways. The problem I run into and more often than I should, is when someone has a long program written to the left margin or improper formatting.
Perl - The Most Popular Language No One is Talking About
[2009-11-10] Even though PHP and ASP are the two new languages that have all the buzz currently, Perl is still a major player. It allows for faster loading websites and little overhead. It shouldn't be surprising, but Perl runs some of the biggest websites on the Internet such as Amazon, IMDB, Slashdot, and many more.
Perl 5.11.1 Enters The Scene
[2009-10-27] The march of progress continued last week with the release of Perl 5.11.1. This release - which, it should stressed, is a development release - incorporates some significant changes, and Perl programmers have been encouraged to give the whole thing a test drive when possible.
Perl 5.11.0 Released
[2009-10-13] Perl 5.11.0 - which has been labeled "the result of over two years of development by a global community of developers" - is now available to everyone. It was released not long ago, and a plan regarding future releases has been announced, too.
Perl Packaging Discussed, Altered
[2009-09-29] A new argument relating to the definition of Perl has arisen, and, perhaps surprisingly, the involved parties didn't arrive at some sort of impasse (even one of the casual "you say tomay-to, I say say tomah-to" variety). Instead, the subpackages in the Fedora 13 (and RHEL 6) release timelines are due for a reworking.
Three Cheers For Two-Day Perl Conference In Italy
[2009-09-08] Italy is one of those places that almost everyone wants to visit. It's hard to just drop everything and fly to another country for the heck of it, however, so if you're in need of an excuse, the fifth edition of the Italian Perl Workshop may provide exactly that.
Perl on the Command Line
[2009-08-18] One of the beautiful uses of Perl is to do quick and dirty string manipulations on the command line. In a Unix environment this is especially nice as the output of one command can be piped into Perl for manipulation.
Test Environment For Perl Opens
[2009-07-28] Perl programmers, get ready - at least in a figurative sense - to break out your beakers and put on your rubber gloves, aprons, and goggles. The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) Testing Laboratory is good to go.
Rakudo Brings Perl 6 Closer Still
[2009-07-07] An implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine is moving forward. A fresh report indicates that Rakudo is "ready for experimentation," which is a positive development that many people might not have thought would come.
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