Scripting tips & tricks , part 3
This article discusses writing cool DSL's in Perl/Ruby ! Check it out !
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Scripting tips & tricks , part 2
The saga continues with basic web scraping in Ruby/Perl .
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Scripting tips & tricks , part 1
This is the first of a series dedicated to scripting languages ( mostly perl & ruby ) .The first one is about ruby's method_missing and perl's... more »
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Redhat perl. What a tragedy.
According to this google trends analysis Redhat, Centos and Fedora make up the majority of linux distributions used in production. All these have a... more »
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Building an Online Game in PHP, Perl, or Ruby on Rails
The BuildingBrowsergames blog has had a long series of entries showing how to build an online game. Each entry has thus far been completed first in... more »
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Why Corporates Hate Perl
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It’s not true, of course. There are a still large number of large companies who love Perl. I could probably work through to my retirement enhancing... more »
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The ascent of scripting languages
When you say “scripting language” these days, most programmers think of Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, ASP, or JavaScript. But the history of scripting... more »
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Add Salt To Make Your Encryptions Better
startrak118 via webmastersbydesign.com
There are few things that aren’t better once salt has been added, and encryptions are no different. Adding a salt can make a simple encryption... more »
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Schwartzian Transforms in Java
puredanger via markmahieu.blogspot.com
Libraries like Java's Collections API contain numerous algorithms tuned to give good performance in a theoretical 'typical case', but it can be very... more »
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Performance of Python, PHP and Perl
Performance comparison between a few languages for a simple parse and load database task.
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Software Development Automation with Scripting Languages
The Scripting languages are deployed in many operative systems, either in UNIX/Linux or Windows. These languages are developed for general purpose... more »
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Java Swings, you say? Are you crazy?
Almost half of the Resumes I get to interview on Swing, write: “Swings” instead of “Swing”. They don’t seem to do the same mistake with other... more »
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5 web development techniques to prevent Google from crawling your HTML forms
5 web development techniques to prevent Google from crawling your HTML forms. do you really want Googlebot messing around in your HTML forms? Probably... more »
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Perl is not going away
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I’ve been taking DDJ for a couple years now. It’s cheap and occasionally has something interesting in it, but it’s been less interesting than I... more »
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App Engine with Ruby, Python, and Perl
bloid via almaer.com
I had a fair amount of email from people, and saw some blogs, complaining about the fact that Google App Engine currently supports Python only. On the... more »
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Analyzing Keyword Activity on Coding Horror
Coding Horror makes its traffic stats publicly available. Unfortunately just the last 500 records are available. I wrote a program to accumulate... more »
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10 Perl modules all Java developers should know
bloid via articles.techrepublic.com.com
There are numerous CPAN modules which are designed to import Java classes into Perl scripts or access Java APIs like Swing, JDBC and JNI. This... more »
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Do not learn Perl
A tongue-in-cheek response to a recent blog post about Ruby
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Zip-ability of source code
Some computing languages are more verbose than others. Some frameworks are more DRY than others. What's the compression ratio of source code?
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So I Don't Like Perl. Sue Me.
A number of folks commented on the last post about my "ignorant and apparently unsupported swipes against Parrot and Perl".
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Perlisms in Ruby: regular expression syntaxes
Ruby heavily borrowed from Smalltalk, Lisp and Perl. While trying to make Hpricot test suite run fine on Ruby 1.9.0 author found regular expressions... more »
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TIOBE Declares Python the Programming Language of 2007
The TIOBE Programming Community Index has declared Python as the Programming Language of 2007 due to a surge in its popularity rating during the year,... more »
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The most useful perl program in the world
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This little gem of a perl has so many uses. I can think of about 11 right now. Now i must make an application which uses this code. Note: this works... more »
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What the Perl 6 and Parrot Hackers Did on their Christmas Vacation
bloid via oreillynet.com
A running joke in the Perl 6 world is that we’ll release a stable Perl 6.0.0 by Christmas. We just won’t tell you which Christmas. As many... more »
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bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel'
Suppose you are running ssh to some system called neptune, which doesn't necessarily have your editor of choice (e.g., gvim for this guy) installed.... more »
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