An Introduction to Quality Assurance
The libraries and syntax for automated testing are easy to find. The mindset of quality and testability is harder to adopt. Tom McTighe reviews the basic principles of quality assurance that can make the difference between a "working" application and a high-quality application.
[Perl.com]
This Week in Perl 6, January 03 - January 11, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with bugfixes, multimensional data structures, and a new syntax engine.
[Perl.com]
Network Installation of Windows Printers from Samba
The combination of Samba and CUPS makes network printing on a mixed Linux/Windows LAN easier than ever. You can share Linux printers with Windows clients, and Windows printers with Linux clients. A Linux/Samba/CUPS printer server is reliable and reasonably simple to set up and maintain. Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, shows you how.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Bricolage Configuration Directives
Any serious application has a serious configuration file. The Bricolage content management system is no different. David Wheeler explains the various configuration options that can tune your site to your needs.
[Perl.com]
This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 21 - 31 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the final summary of 2004. What's on the lists? Patches, design decisions, and lots of theory.
[Perl.com]
Keeping Your Life in Subversion
Revision control is great for collaborative projects and distributed projects. How well does it work for individuals? According to Joey Hess, fantastically. He's kept his home directory under revision control for years--here's how he does it with Subversion.
[ONLamp.com]
Automating PostgreSQL Tasks
Databases aren't just create-once, ignore forever sinkholes for data. You'll likely spend time maintaining them, if not generating reports. Save your tender wrists and automate some of those routine tasks. Manni Wood demonstrates how to combine Perl, the shell, and the psql command-line utility to do repetitive jobs for you.
[ONLamp.com]
This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 7-20 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list discusses hashes, classes, and variables; the Perl 6 Compiler list launches code; and the Parrot list fixes lots and lots of bugs.
[Perl.com]
Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 2
The ultimate goal of all programming is to be as unproductive as possible--to write games. In part two of a series on building a 3D engine with Perl, Geoff Broadwell demonstrates animations and event handling.
[Perl.com]
Introducing mod_parrot
mod_perl marries Perl 5 with the Apache web server. What's the plan for Perl 6? mod_parrot--and it may also be base for any language hosted on the Parrot virtual machine. After a brief hiatus, Jeff Horwitz recently resurrected the mod_parrot progress. Here's the current state, what works, and how to play with it on your own.
[Perl.com]
Perl Code Kata: Testing Imports
Persistently practicing good programming will make you a better programmer. It can be difficult to find small tasks to practice, though. Fear not! Here's a 30-minute exercise to improve your testing abilities and your understanding of module importing and exporting.
[Perl.com]
The Evolution of ePayment Services at UB
Perl is often a workhorse behind the scenes, content to do its job quietly and without fuss. When the University of New York at Buffalo needed to offer electronic payment services to students, the Department of Computing Services reached for Perl. Jim Brandt describes how Perl (and a little Inline::Java) helped them build just enough code to allow students to pay their bills online.
[Perl.com]
This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 1 - 6 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list discusses a shiny new syntax update, and the Parrot list discusses what is and isn't up for grabs.
[Perl.com]
Building a 3D Engine in Perl
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.com]
This Fortnight in Perl 6, November 16-30 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the introduction of the Parrot Grammar Engine!
[Perl.com]
True Stories of Knoppix Rescues
A battle-hardened sysadmin shares his near-death tales ... of Knoppix rescue. Kyle Rankin, author of Knoppix Hacks, is a true Knoppix veteran with endless stories of broken systems and machines in distress. In this article, he shares a few of his favorites, complete with outcomes and weapons of choice. Not for the faint of heart.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Perl Debugger Quick Reference
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.
[Perl.com]
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Choosing a Language for Interactive Fiction
Retro gaming is hot, and what could be more retro than interactive fiction? If you pine for the days of white mailboxes, twisty little passages, and Babelfish all in your mind, perhaps you long to create your own interactive fiction world. Liza Daly starts down that path by explaining how to choose the right IF language.
[ONLamp.com]
Cross-Language Remoting with mod_perlservice
Remoting -- sharing data between server and client processes -- is powerful, but writing your own protocols is tedious and difficult. XML-RPC is too simple and SOAP and CORBA are too complex. Isn't there something in the middle, something easier to set up and use? Michael W. Collins introduces mod_perlservice, an Apache httpd module that provides remote services to C, Perl, or Flash clients.
[Perl.com]
Implementing Flood Control
If the load of application relies on incoming events, you may eventually face the happy curse of popularity: too much work to do with your available resources. If you set a limit on how many events you can process within a time period, you can avoid the flood. Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski explains the algorithm and demonstrates working code.
[Perl.com]
This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004 Part Two
Matt Fowles summarizes two more weeks of the Perl 6 mailing lists in the last half of October.
[Perl.com]
Komodo 3.0 Review
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.com]
Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?
An old idea--user-writable web pages--has taken off again recently. Wikis are becoming more popular as tools for communication and collaboration. There are also several dozen packages to create them. Shlomi Fish compares features of several popular open source Perl, Python, and PHP Wikis.
[ONLamp.com]
This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004
In a stunning achievement, Matt Fowles makes his debut as the new Perl 6 summarizer, covering all three major mailing lists through the first half of October.
[Perl.com]
Installing Bricolage
Though CPAN makes it possible to write large and powerful applications, distributing those applications can prove daunting. In the case of the Bricolage content management system, though, David Wheeler's installation guide here will walk you through the process.
[Perl.com]
Perl Code Kata: Testing Taint
Persistently practicing good programming will make you a better programmer. It can be difficult to find small tasks to practice, though. Fear not! Here's a 30-minute exercise to improve your testing abilities and your understanding of Perl's taint mode.
[Perl.com]
FMTYEWTK About Mass Edits In Perl
Though it's a full-fledged programming language now, Perl still has roots in Unix file editing. A hearty set of command-line switches, options, and shortcuts make it possible to process files quickly, easily, and powerfully. Geoff Broadwell explains far more than you ever wanted to know about it.
[Perl.com]
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