Falling out of love with a language
I’m a Perl hacker. I have been for around 16 years now. Around 5 years ago, prompted by the Pragmatic Programmer and Adam Turoff, I... more »
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Collecting Twitter Data After An Event – GeoTweetHistory.pl
I am releasing the Perl script I run to collect Twitter data after an event, GeoTweetHistory.pl, as an open source project, under the... more »
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Why Facebook's HipHop for PHP is important
According to the announcement, HipHop is a code transformer that turns PHP code into "highly optimised C++". By using HipHop on their... more »
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Perl 6 Update: Parrot 2.0.0 Released!
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 2.0.0 "Inevitable." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic... more »
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Python Use Has Risen 45% Since Google Ap Engine Debuted
According to an Evans Data Corp survey the Python scripting language has increased by 45% since Spring 2008 according the most recent... more »
Cool Things in Perl 6
Yeah, Perl 6 is going to allow us to do very interesting things...
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Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation
This is the fourth part of a nine-part article on famous Perl one-liners. In this part I will create various one-liners for string and array creation.
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Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...
I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can't define it, but I'll know it when I see it. Here are some common memes... more »
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Value of Prepared Statements in SQL
There are several database wrapper libraries out there for your favourite web development languages. For instance, there’s PDO for PHP... more »
I pushed 30 of my programming related projects to GitHub
I just pushed 30 of my projects to GitHub. I realized that all the projects were scattered across my website and there was no central... more »
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Why Perl Lost It
Over the last several years it has become fairly obvious that Perl has lost the prominence and popularity it enjoyed in the late 90s and... more »
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How To: HTML Page Parsers and Crawlers using Regex in Perl
One of the most powerful thing which we can achieve using perl is, extracting any content from a website you want to. For example, you... more »
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Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it.
Call me a curmudgeon (and many do), but I just can’t understand why intelligent folks make the choice to completely ignore Perl. I can... more »
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Fedora 12 is out tomorrow, script to install all your junk automagically
Fedora 12 is coming out tomorrow, for those doing a fresh upgrade it means installing all the packages you use again. The install process... more »
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Perl far from dead, more popular than you think
erl has been around since 1987 and became an early darling of web developers. These days, however, you don’t hear much about Perl.... more »
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If Programming Languages Were Real Persons
What if programming languages were real persons like you and me? What if they were parts of families and had relations and affairs? Have... more »
10 PHP Micro Optimization Tips
There are many ways to improve the way you write your PHP code. And we can easily increase the efficiency of our code just by putting in... more »
What Powers YouTube
YouTube is world’s 4th most popular website, and no.1 for videos, worldwide. It serves around 1 billion views and several Terabytes of... more »
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Writing an irc bot for svn commit notification
Recently I’ve started working with a new team. Since we are based in 2 different site a bit far each other we are using extensively an... more »
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Using Regular Expressions - Part 1 of 3 - Overview
Regex can be used to search for simple or extremely complex patterns through blocks of text, and most programming languages and tools can... more »
Why Perl 5.11.0 Matters
Perl 5.11.0 is the first release in the development track of Perl 5. Perl 5.11.x will become Perl 5.12.0 at some point in the future.... more »
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37 Tested PHP, Perl, and JavaScript Regular Expressions
37 regexes ready for immediate use, along with links to the best regular expression tutorials and resources.
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Simple Template System in Perl
By now you should know I am a fan of everything simple. I casted an opinion that frameworks, while useful, are overcomplicated and create... more »
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The many JIT projects... Parrot plans to ditch its own JIT and move towards one using LLVM.
It seems LLVM has gained another user, in the parrot multi language VM project. They plan to ditch their current JIT implementation and... more »
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Tomcat Management: Jmx4Perl Makes it Easier
This post serves as a mini-intro to Jmx4Perl from Roland Huß, which I recently discovered while looking through my web site logs. For... more »
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