Fachinformatiker

“…In the first case, I explained how I had rewritten a heavily used Korn shell script in Perl, in the process bringing its execution time from a half-hour down to ten seconds. The audience laughed and applauded loudly at that point of my talk.”

“This article is a case study of the use of Perl and XML/RDF technologies to channel disparate sources of data into a semi-structured repository. This repository helped to build structured OLAP warehouses by mining an RDF repository with SAX machines. Channels of data included user-contributed datasets, data from FTP and HTTP remote-based repositories, and data from other intra-enterprise based assets. We called the system the ‘Kitchen Sync’, but one of the project’s visionaries best described it as akin to a device that accepts piles of random coins and returns them sorted for analysis. This system collected voter data and was the primary data collection point in a national organization for the presidential campaign during the 2004 election.”

“The ultimate goal of all programming is to be as unproductive as possible — to write games. Why hurt yourself to write in low-level languages, though, when Perl provides all of the tools you need to do it well? Geoff Broadwell demonstrates how to use OpenGL from Perl.”

“Perl’s debugger is both powerful and somewhat esoteric. This printable excerpt from Richard Foley’s Perl Debugger Pocket Reference can help take some of the mystery out of the common commands and put more advanced features within your reach.”

was alles geht. ein dvd-ripper für linux, in perl geschrieben.

“ActiveState has recently released version 3.0 of its Komodo IDE, supporting agile languages. Jason Purdy reviews the progress made since the 2.0 release.”

“”Perl is an incredibly flexible language, but its ease of use can lead to some sloppy and lazy programming habits. We’re all guilty of them, but there are some quick steps you can take to improve the performance of your Perl applications…”"

eine gute, englischsprachige erklärung, wie man an mittels post oder get übergebene daten kommt, findet sich unter: http://perl.about.com/library/weekly/aa070901b.htm

nicholas writes “The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the

“Perl Release 5.8.4, the fourth maintenance release of Perl 5.8. The CPAN ftp multiplexor will pick a mirror close to you: bz2 : ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.4.tar.bz2 …”

[use Perl]

“Maypole is a framework for creating web applications; Simon Cozens explains how to set up database-backed applications extremely rapidly.”

[full article at Perl.com]