Entries Tagged as 'perl'
Ruby vs Perl Arrays
One thing that you take for granted in perl is the interchangeability of lists and Arrays. That is, when you want a list, you can easily use an Array type, you may have to dereference that mutha, but you’re going to be able to use it and use it very conveniently. So, if you’re trying [...]
Breakfast Links: Street Art, Ear Wax & Expungement
First we have the opening of Eyebeam’s 2007 exhibition season. Looks like a cool exhibit (with sessions) featuring street artists of all shapes and sizes. I love the graffiti research lab, or as my brain thinks of things - the laser guys. Watch this video, it will blow your mind. Seriously.
I think it’s an [...]
Categories: art · breakfast links · perl · wishlist
Yahoo Pipes: Regex Module
UPDATE: I have also started using the Regex module to handle some basic if/else branching. See my most recent post on this.
I noticed some days back that Yahoo Pipes had added a regex module (I think this is new) and wonder of wonders they’re actually perl compatible regex’s. (Aside: remember back in the day when [...]
On what people will write desktop apps with in the future
So a little bit ago Gruber posted about how in the near future scripting languages would be used to write desktop apps with performance sensitive pieces written in your C’s and C++’s. He followed it up with another post and Scott posted about it too. I spent a bit of time thinking about this but [...]
Categories: development · feature · perl
PHP? Ruby?
Update 4: I think I’m going to go with Ruby. And by think, I’m going to grab some books read them and if I’m still psyched about it I’ll start my project. If I’m not psyched, I may switch to PHP. Now I must find some books… suggestions welcome.
Update 3: Everytime I start leaning [...]
On the anti-perl bias in publishing
Ok, so, now that I have somewhere to vent I will at last state my extreme annoyance at the anti-perl bias so commonly found in publishing. It happens time and time again, you’re reading some book on some new fangled technothing, everything’s fine until they get to the part where they’re discussuing how the topic [...]
Review: Perl Best Practices
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 5 stars. It is listed in my Developer’s Bookshelf and is highly recommended.
This book is probably one of the best tech books I’ve read. The topics he covers range quite a bit starting from the very beginning with programming style through documentation and error [...]
