Tag: perl
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Dots and Perl
I was running a training course this week, and a conversation I had with the class reminded me that I have been planning to write this article for many months. There are a number of operators in Perl that are made up of nothing but dots. How many of them can you name? There are…
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Perl APIs
For a lot of programmers out there, Perl has become largely invisible. They just never come across it. That might seem strange to you as you sit inside the Perl community echo chamber reading the Perl Ironman or p5p, but try this simple experiment. Think of a web site that you use and that supplies…
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Perl in Banks
An email has flooded in: I came across your presentation ‘Perl in the Enterprise’ and happen to have a burning concern closely related to one of the bullets ‘Banks see <Perl> as a competitive advantage’. I am consulting at a major bank in South Africa, and our team have been using Perl very productively to…
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Perl Search Revisited
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about a Google Custom Search that I had set up to create a specialised search engine for Perl. Recently I’ve revisited this idea. I’ve given the search engine its own subdomain and I’ve added some new sites to the list of sites that it covers.…
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Just Build Something
About a month ago, JT Smith suggested that we should all stop talking about Perl and just build something. And, purely coincidentally, over the last few weeks I resurrected a project that I have been poking at for about five years and have finally turned it into something that I’m happy to show the world.…