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Newsletter Archive: 2006

Handling Missing Data

I have an old Perl project that goes out to a Government web site, ftp's some files, massages them in various ways, and spits out some output. Over time, the project grew, and now does more than it used to.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/1219.html

12.19.06

Help, My Script Isn't Working!

Here's a list of tips and tricks to consult at two a.m. when you're trying to put your site to bed and that d*mn script just won't work.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/1128.html

11.28.06

Using Mod_security To Shield Movable Type

I recently noticed an upswing in the traffic my blog gets from comment spam bots.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/1114.html

11.14.06

Perl Loop Causes Strange Read-only Error

Ok, folks: I don't understand this. It must have something to do with anonymous arrays in Perl (no, it doesn't, I realize now), but I don't grok the connection.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/1024.html

10.24.06

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http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/1013.html

10.13.06

Continuation Lines

There's been a long standing Unix convention of breaking long lines with a "\" to make them easier to read.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/1010.html

10.10.06

Whatever, Perl 6 Is On The Way

Larry Wall's recent State of the Onion address concerned Perl 6 and the concept of being prepared to do "whatever" in the context of the next version of the language.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/1003.html

10.03.06

The Hidden Loop

Programmers use loops to avoid writing repetitive code, but sometimes forget that compilers will unroll their loops when possible for efficiency.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0919.html

09.19.06

Webmin, Usermin Need Updates

The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) has reported a pair of vulnerabilities in Webmin and Usermin that could be exploited by remote attackers.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0905.html

09.05.06

Seeing Perl In Google Code

Yes, Jifty is another web application builder, and yes, Hiveminder is another to-do list; but it is Perl that made them possible.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0822.html

08.22.06

Perl Plus Jifty Equals Hiveminder

Yes, Jifty is another web application builder, and yes, Hiveminder is another to-do list; but it is Perl that made them possible.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0808.html

08.08.06

Perl Bootcamp Saddles Up For Germany

The next Big Nerd Ranch session of Perl Bootcamp occurs in Germany in September, and will cover Intermediate Perl.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0725.html

07.25.06

Perl Coders Get New GTK+ Release

Programmers on Perl and other languages can take advantage of the latest stable release of the GTK+ toolkit to facilitate rapid application development.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0705.html

07.05.06

Yet Another Perl Conference A Week Away

YAPC:NA 2006 takes place June 26th-28th in Chicago, with Larry Wall and Damian Conway providing the keynotes that will sandwich the conference's events and talks.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0620.html

06.20.06

Why Perl Scripts?

First let me tell you the history of Perl scripts and then I will go into why I think Perl is the best overall programming language that there is.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0530.html

05.30.06

YAPC: Europe Website Online

The website of the Yet Another Perl Conference: Europe (YAPC) is now up and running, according to the event's organizers.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0516.html

05.16.06

Perl Artistic License Gets A Makeover

The Perl Foundation published drafts of both the Artistic License version 2.0 and its Contributor License Agreement, seeking public comment on both.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0502.html

05.02.06

Google Warms Up A Summer Of Code

The search advertising company will support another Summer Of Code this year, where Google provides student developers with stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0418.html

04.18.06

Perl Bootcamp Planned For July

The five-day intensive Perl class will be available at Big Nerd Ranch this July and taught by the Learning Perl 4th edition and Intermediate Perl co-author, Brian D'foy.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0404.html

04.04.06

File Date Comparison

Sometimes you want to use the date of a file somewhere else. For this example, we'll use the case where a file shouldn't be overwritten if it was created or changed today.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0321.html

03.21.06

Simple Schedule

I often get asked for web-based scheduling programs. I've done quite a few of them over the years, sometimes using scripts available from the web, but more often writing my own simply because I don't like modifying other people's code.

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0307.html

03.07.06

A Ps Problem With BBX

Someone recently asked me about increasing command width for 'ps' on SCO Unix. I thought I had the answer at Best of CUSM: width of command in ps, but it turns out that post was incorrect as a more recent newsgroup discussion explained. The SCO 'ps' is stuck at 80 characters...

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0214.html

02.14.06

Perl 'Eval' For Data Validation

I recently did a little web based Service Schedule. This is something that gets its data from another program: in other words, the details of what will be serviced and when are supplied by that program; this web based app validates things, assigns technicians and does some other things that the first program doesn't...

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0123.html

01.23.06

Rounding Time

It was a long, hard day. Up early to clean a room of furniture so that new carpet can be put in later this week, off to a real estate refinancing closing after that, back to rake leaves and then the usual computer type work. After dinner some refinishing of hardwood floors and a little sealing of cracks noticed when I pulled up some of the old carpet. Before I went to bed, I checked email and noticed...

http://www.perlpronews.com/2006/0103.html

01.03.06

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