Designing a Search Engine
A couple of months ago, I was approached by a company that I had done some work for previously, and was asked to build them a search engine to index about 200MB of HTML. However, some fairly strict rules…
This Week on p5p 2001/04/08
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Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good
Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 01 for the latest information. Table of Contents RFC 141: This Is The Last Major Revision RFC 28: Perl should stay Perl RFC…
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This Week on p5p 2001/04/01
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A Simple Gnome Panel Applet
Table of Contents Program overview Initialization The callbacks Conclusion Gnome is the desktop environment of choice on my home Linux system because it is feature-packed and user friendly. Gnome is also flexible, and thanks to the Gtk-Perl module and…
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This Week on p5p 2001/03/26
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This Week on p5p 2001/03/19
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Creating Modular Web Pages With EmbPerl
Table of Contents Getting Started Hello World Web Site Global Variables Modular Files Modular File Inheritance Subroutines in EmbperlObject Conclusions This tutorial is intended as a complement to the Embperl documentation, not a replacement. We assume a basic familiarity…
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This Week on p5p 2001/03/12
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Writing GUI Applications in Perl/Tk
“This article originally appeared in Visual Developer Magazine” Perl is officially known as the “Practical Extraction and Report Language,” in part because of its extremely robust text handling abilities. Perl’s author, Larry Wall, has a much more colorful name…
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This Week on p5p 2001/03/05
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This Week on p5p 2001/02/26
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DBIx::Recordset VS DBI
Problems Using DBI at Application-Level Intolerance to Table and Data Mutation Error-Prone and Tedious Query Construction Manual and Complex Mapping of Database Data to Perl Data Structures Succint CGI-SQL Interaction (Database Control via ``CGI One-Liners’’) Control and Monitoring of…
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The e-smith Server and Gateway: a Perl Case Study
-> The e-smith server and gateway system is a Linux distribution designed for small to medium enterprises. It’s intended to simplify the process of setting up Internet and file-sharing services and can be administered by a non-technical user with…
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This Week on p6p 2001/02/18
Notes Please send corrections and additions to perl6-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. We looked at over 400 messages this week, about a quarter of which were to do with garbage collection. Again. I’m afraid this…
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Perl 6 Alive and Well! Introducing the perl6-mailing-lists Digest
“What is going on over there, anyway? It is unfortunately true that the effort looks stalled from the outside.” - Eric S. Raymond, to the perl6-meta mailing list The push towards the next major version of perl started with…
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This Week on p5p 2001/02/12
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Pathologically Polluting Perl
Pathologically Polluting Perl Table of Contents Inline in Action - Simple examples in C Hello, world Just Another ____ Hacker What about XS and SWIG? One-Liners Supported Platforms for C The Inline Syntax Fine Dining - A Glimpse at the…
