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08.22.06
Seeing Perl In Google Code
 By
David A. Utter
Google's release of a code repository for open source
projects has a number of languages represented, including
Perl.
Perl -- It's like Java, only it lets you deliver on time
and under budget.
-- quote seen on Perl.org
Ever since Google opened up its Project
Hosting site, it has been compared to existing hosting
sites like SourceForge, only minus some of the extraneous
features a project may not need.
Perl has found its way into Google's newest contribution
to the open source community already. As one might expect
given Perl's ability to chomp its way through massive
amounts of text data, one of the projects we found builds
on that utility.
That project would be Ack,
a utility that works like grep across large coded bases.
The text finder can crawl across large trees of text,
but it has been optimized to work through vast amounts
of source code.
Those who do bioinformatics with Perl may have an interest
in Ortholytics.
The project depends on Bioperl
and "provides the basic pipelining and analysis tools
to compare orthology at the interspecific and genome-wide
level."
Some projects have set up shop on Google Project Hosting,
but serve only to redirect visitors to the projects home
at a different location. The page for cometd,
for example, sends people to its homepage, while the repository
is hosted elsewhere instead of in Google's Subversion
implementation.
On the security side, a simple Perl project called Hackstop
provides a simple monitoring system to detect and report
attempts to break in to a server. The project delivers
updates to a set email address, and updates /etc/hosts.deny
when attacks exceed a certain threshold to ban that site
from continuing to probed a system.
About
the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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