Perl Code Kata: Testing Taint
Perl’s taint mode can help you avoid using untrusted input insecurely. Here’s how to practice using it.
FMTYEWTK About Mass Edits In Perl
For those not used to the terminology, FMTYEWTK stands for Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know. This one is fairly light as FMTYEWTKs usually go. In any case, the question before us is, “How do you apply an…
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Why Review Code?
Richard Gabriel of Sun Microsystems suggests that beginning programmers should study the source code for great works of software as part of a Master of Fine Arts course in software. Prominent Extreme Programmers talk about finding the Quality Without a…
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Don't Be Afraid to Drop the SOAP
SOAP has great hype; portable, simple, efficient, flexible, and open, SOAP has it all. According to many intelligent people, writing a web service with SOAP should be a snap, and the results will speak for themselves. So they do, although…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-24
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-24 This is my last summary before I start my teaching practice. Hopefully I’ve things set up so writing the summary isn’t going to interfere with that, and vice versa. This week…
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Building a Finite State Machine Using DFA::Simple
I am converting some articles from MS Word to HTML by hand. I often use bulleted outlines so I face a lot of work creating lists with nested sub-lists. It didn’t take opening and closing many <ul> and <li>…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-17
Another week, another summary, and I’m running late. So: This week in perl6-compiler The current state of the compiler Discussion of the current state of the nascent perl 6 compiler and how best to contribute to its development even…
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Embedded Databases
The expression “Embedded Database” requires an explanation. A “database” is an application that allows the targeted retrieval of stored data - a log-file is not a database. By “embedded” I mean a database that does not run in a…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-10
This week on perl6-compiler Yes you read that right; development of the Perl 6 compiler now has its own mailing list. Hopefully, in the coming weeks, the current perl6-internals list will get renamed parrot-internals to reflect that split. As I…
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Lightning Articles
Simon Cozens Serendipity - it means those occasions when things come together to give you moments of inspiration. While preparing perl.com one week, I was editing an article on how to give lightning talks by Mark Fowler and at…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-03
Another week, a free weekend, and still I haven’t started writing the summary until Monday. Still, I don’t actually start at college ’til next week, so that’s all right then. We start with perl6-internals. Compile op with return values…
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Hacking Perl in Nightclubs
I’ve found the experiences of dancing and programming to have a great deal in common. With both I am immersed in an abstract world of animated structures, building up and breaking down many times before finally reaching a conclusion….
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Content Management with Bricolage
If you’ve ever had to manage a web site with tens of thousands of pages of content where many people need to be able to update that content, you’ve no doubt recognized the need for a content management system…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-08-20
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-08-20 Harrumph. Note to self; never miss a week when you could actually have written the summary. I lulled myself into a false sense of security with the quiet week for…
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The State of the Onion
Note: All comments in square brackets are X screensavers that I ran for my slides. If you want to play along at home, start up xscreensaver-demo and click on the screensaver named. By the way, for any screensaver that…
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Perl Command-Line Options
Perl has a large number of command-line options that can help to make your programs more concise and open up many new possibilities for one-off command-line scripts using Perl. In this article we’ll look at some of the most…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-31
As I threatened last week, I’m moving the rollover point for these summaries from midnight on Sunday/Monday to midnight on Friday/Saturday, but rather than do it in one swell foop, I’m doing a couple of six-day weeks. The theory…
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Giving Lightning Talks
After the keynotes, the most popular sessions at most Perl conferences tend to be the lightning talks. Each session consists of about 10 to 15 lightning talks — talks typically lasting individually no more than five minutes — back…
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Building Applications with POE
Earlier, we talked about the fundamental principles of application design with POE. Now it’s time to put my money where my mouth is and build some actual working code. To make life a bit easier, let’s lay out a…
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This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-18
Following last week’s bizarrely dated summary (I misplaced a day) we’re back with the correct week-ending date, but I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve slipped to writing on a Tuesday again. My head hangs in shame and I am…
