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Webware.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications , but so far it's not really an official project. The work is the project of Google employee Brad Fitzpatrick, who disclosed the project on his blog Tuesday. But he's not a member of the App Engine team, and Google isn't promising Perl support, he said. By going public with...
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MaisonBisson.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
David Cloutman pointed to Craiglist’s job ads as an indicator of programming language popularity. Here’s the hit counts for “web design jobs” and “internet engineering jobs” in the Bay Area: PHP Java Ruby Python PERL internet engineering jobs 167 246 85 98 109 web design jobs 110 71 22 19 31 Cloutman has a few ideas for what the numbers mean, but I’m just entertained by the data. (Note: he corrected...
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Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
If you have ever used the Perl programming language then you have heard the name Larry Wall . But, you might not know that Larry Wall is an active member of the Church of the Nazarene (the " bless " function anyone?). According to the Religion in American Culture survey 63% of Nazarenes accept a literal interpretation of the Bible, as opposed to 46% of Ameican Protestants as a whole. James Dobson...
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www.devco.net (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
I have fallen out of love with Perl some time ago, I cannot point to one specific thing about it that put me off, I think it's just a general un-sexyness about it now. I have been doing some Java and PHP development that was very OOP heavy and have been doing OO coding since school in the Pascal 6 days, I find it's almost become the natural way of thinking when thinking about problems. OO though does...
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Matasano Chargen (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
A classic challenge for companies that build products on high-level languages like Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby —- as well as .NET, and Java —- is that they are shipping their source code to their customers. Companies don’t like disclosing their source code. Language vendors want companies to use their stuff. And so we have [...]
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Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
PHP is not only a very competent web development language (and part of LAMP stack). It is also a very capable language for writing (command line) scripts. You can write simpler and cleaner scripts with php than perl. Here is a php code which takes a file name as input, trims whitespace from each line [...]
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Science and Tech headlines (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
I was wondering what certifications are available for the following that are legitimate: mySQL SQL C C++ php Java perl ASP I'm looking to solidfy my resume while I take night classes to finish my Computer Science Degree.
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OS News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Norman Deppenbroek has ported NewLisp to Syllable Desktop. NewLisp is a variety of the Lisp programming language meant for scripting, with a friendlier syntax and a practical approach. Also, newer versions of Objective Caml (3.10.2) and PERL (5.10.0) were ported. Kelly Wilson got OCaml to supports PThreads on Syllable Desktop. The new PERL is adapted to the new system structure of Syllable 0.6.5 and...
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Bin-Blog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
This is the next installment of the Hello Script series - Hello Script for Perl. ‘Hello Script’ is a file that contains the most commonly used elements of a programming language so that it can be used as a cheat sheet when working with that language. Introduction to Perl For those of who are unfamiliar with perl, [...]
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random($foo) (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
As you might have heard, Google AppEngine launched tonight, with Python as its initial (and only) programming language to interface with its services. I started switching over to Python (from Perl) a few years ago for general processing and daemon tasks (mostly for its sweet RPC bindings and its comprehensive, if still somewhat convoluted Unicode handling). Over time, as the libraries matured, I started...
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Resources for Webmasters (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The DBI is a database access module for the Perl programming language. It defines a set of methods, variables, and conventions that provide a consistent database interface, independent of the actual d… Read more… Share This
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ongoing (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
It seems that Perl will soon be able to deal with dates past 2038. Can your programming language do this? (See 2038bug.com .)
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Standard Deviations (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
I’m finally getting a chance to actually implement map/reduce instead of read or write about it. General impressions so far: Hadoop is fairly easy to install and get running. The choice of Java as the default programming language feels strange to me. It'd feel more natural in Perl, Python, or Ruby since most of what you do [...]
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Sci-Tech Today (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
This week, automated source-code analysis tool developer Coverity announced a list of open-source projects it has certified as secure and defect-free. The 11 projects are Amanda, NTP, OpenPAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL. All of these projects eliminated multiple classes of potential security vulnerabilities and quality defects from their code at the Coverity Scan...
