Welcome back to another Perl 6 summary in which Piers comes back from watching a load of pretty girls dancing ‘round a huge Maypole in Wellow (it’s 60 feet high, the tallest permanent Maypole in England, there’s been on…
Last time, we looked at writing a simple Apache output filter - Apache::Clean - using the mod_perl 2.0 API. How did I know that the filter I presented really worked? I wrote a test suite for it, one that…
Welcome back to another Perl 6 summary, this week without any ‘comic’ introductions. So, without further ado we press straight on to the happenings in perl6-internals. Makefile issues Bruce Gray sent in a patch to tweak Parrot’s Makefile to…
This article is about a new Perl module called CGI::Kwiki. With this module you can create a Wiki Web site in less than a minute. Now that’s quick. Or more appropriately, ``That’s Kwik!’’ If you’ve not heard of a…
PEPPERPOT 1: Ooh look! It’s another Perl 6 summary! PEPPERPOT 2: Well I never did! What’s in it this week? PP 1: Ooh, I don’t know. Shall we have a look? PP 2: Ooh yes. Following a convoluted animation sequence…
Welcome my friends, to the show that never ends. Yes, another week, another Perl 6 Summary, chock full of condensed goodness, Leo Tötsch admiration and a smattering information about the design and development of Perl 6 and its target…
The season of Perl conferences is almost upon us! In fact, the first of the YAPCs for this year is in less than a week. So I thought this would be a good time to give a tour of…
Welcome back to (I hope) a normal length summary of Perl 6 shenanigans after last week’s bumper double length installment. (Thankfully traffic has been much lighter this week; I’m not sure I could cope with writing another epic.) Perl6-internals…
You know how it is, you go away for a lovely weekend folk festival in Wales, you have a really good, relaxed time, singing yourself hoarse and generally forgetting all about technology before coming home to email from the…
Not too long ago, despite a relative dearth of free tuits, I decided that I had put off my investigation of mod_perl 2.0 for too long - it was time to really start kicking the tires and tinkering with…
Another week passes, another summary gets written. How does he do it? We start, as per usual with the still very quiet perl6-internals list. hey sexy where you been? The internals list’s normally impeccable spam filters failed slightly this…
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 6 for the current design information. This document summarizes Apocalypse 6, which covers subroutines and the new type system. Subroutines and Other Code…
Welcome my friends to the show that never ends. Yes, it’s another of Piers Cawley’s risible attempts to summarize the week’s happenings in the Perl 6 development community. We start, as usual, with events in the perl6-internals world (not the…
Stas Bekman is a coauthor of O’Reilly’s upcoming Practical mod_perl. It’s important to be able to monitor your production system’s health. You want to monitor the memory and file system utilization, the system load, how much memory the processes…
Welcome once again to the gallimaufry that is a Perl 6 summary. Unfettered this week by the presence of feline distraction we plunge straight into the crystal clear waters of perl6-internals. Iterator proof of concept People must really like…
Randy Ray is coauthor of Programming Web Services with Perl Abstract: One of the most common categories of questions on the SOAP::Lite mailing list is how to get Perl SOAP applications to work with .NET services. It’s not that…
Assuming I can tear myself away from stroking the cat who has just magically appeared on my chest and is even now trying to wipe his dags on my nose, welcome one and all to another Perl 6 summary,…
Have you ever wished that you could have more than one version of a Perl module installed on your system, and that you could easily tell Perl exactly which one you wanted to load? Perhaps you have some legacy…
Spring is in the air, the Apocalypse is here (or imminent, depending on which sense of the word ‘Apocalypse’ you are using). We’ll start with perl6-internals as usual, before bracing ourselves for the increased volume and ploughing on into…
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