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• Create time-availability maps with Perl and Google Earth 2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Nationwide and international teams and flexible work hours contribute to change in when and where teams work together. Time-availability maps provide a listing of who is most likely to be available for a certain hour in a certain location. Find out how to use Google Earth and a log of your communications to map and identify the time and place when availabilities match.
• Generating Native Excel Files in Perl 3 months ago
  
  Over the years, I've probably created thousands of reports for customers and co-workers. Usually, I have a web-based program that generates reports in either html or comma-separated format. The html format is a lot prettier and usually gives the user what they want. The comma-separated format allows the user to easily import the results into Excel, or into Open Office in the case of my more enlightened users. From there, they add formatting to the raw data and send the resulting report to whereever it's going. All this formating is done manually by customers who tend to want the same report periodically, so this results in a lot of re-work on their part. Most of the time, they're just happy to get the data and don't complain about having to pretty it up a bit. But there is a better way.
• What the Perl 6 and Parrot Hackers Did on their Christmas Vacation 10 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  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.
• Keystroke security dynamics from custom Perl algorithms 10 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Measure the total time of entry and verify the time between keystrokes to help authenticate a user regardless of the data being entered. Learn how to apply the open source tools xev and Perl in keystroke dynamics to measure the more-subtle characteristics of human-computer interaction. This article uses example code to demonstrate keystroke dynamics for enhancing the security of your applications in authentication and continuous data entry contexts.
• Learn the basics of the Perl/Tk module 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Although Perl-based Web interfaces have limitations, Perl is one of the most commonly used Web development languages. UNIX users who have a programming background in shell scripting, Perl, or another language can breathe new life into Perl-based Web interfaces by using the Perl/Tk module.
• Perl is Dead. Long Live Perl. 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  "JT Smith, president of Plain Black, the creator of WebGUI, and one of the unsung successes of using Perl in business, recently sent me this essay..."
• Custom Charts with Perl and GD 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "This article describes techniques you can use to create new levels of usefulness in your dynamically generated charts with Perl and GD. Cook up some automatically generated graphs for your organizational meetings or live enterprise directory data. Annotate the charts with readable text that delivers more information than the standard pie chart. Using the power of GD and Perl, you can link various data and images together to create sophisticated charts that will help bring visual interest to your applications."
• Perl hack: Monitor disk space and send email alert 1 year, 9 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "This article explains how to write a perl script that can monitor your disk space under UNIX or Linux and send me an email alert to admin. There is a nice perl system routine called Perl df or Filesys::DiskSpace. This routine displays information on a file system such as its type, the amount of disk space occupied, the total disk space and the number of inodes etc."
• Create Fancy On-Screen Displays with Ghosd and Perl 1 year, 9 months ago
  
  IdaAshley writes "With recent advances in frameless transparent windows for Linux desktop now you can use Perl, Ghosd, and some network programming to display on-screen overlays of text and graphics based on messages from your local system and remote computers. Define custom images, font sizes, and colors to convey information integrated with your desktop."
• Perl 6 FAQ and Introduction Released 2 years, 1 month ago
  
  jnthn writes "Developer site Programmer's Heaven has published a Perl 6 FAQ answering over 100 questions about Perl 6. It covers many of the new features in Perl 6, including roles, multi-methods, junctions and hyper operators. There is also a step-by-step guide to writing your first Perl 6 program."
• Roles: Composable Units of Object Behavior 2 years, 2 months ago
  
  A significant new part of Perl 6’s object model and type system is the addition of roles. Part of their origin is an implementation in Smalltalk (there called traits). They also solve some systemic problems of other OO systems.
• Yet Another Perl Conference June 26th - 28th 2 years, 7 months ago
  
  Josh McAdams writes "Registration has opened for YAPC::NA 2006. Early registration is open through the end of April. Presentatin abstracts are due in by April 10th."
• Two Solid Additions to any Perl Library 2 years, 8 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "Both Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs, by Mark Jason Dominus and Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom, by Randal Schwartz have some things in common. Obviously, they are both about Perl, and their authors are well known in the Perl community. In addition, both books are collections of interesting techniques for Perl rather than discussions of a single software package."
• Perl Gets Ported to z/OS UNIX Platform 2 years, 9 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "Perl for zOS is a statically-linked, pre-compiled porting of the Perl (Version 5.8.7) scripting language to the z/OS UNIX platform with all known defects resolved. This new porting of Perl 5.8.7 provides a pre-built version of Perl with a dedicated support team to address new problems that may arise."
• Eclipse CruiseControl and EPIC Perl debugs 2 years, 9 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "This Eclipse tutorial gives you a high-level overview of how to use CruiseControl, Luntbuild, and Anthill with Eclipse. This tutorial shows you how the Eclipse Perl Integration (EPIC) plug-in for Eclipse can help you test Perl applications. One is a traditional Perl debugger, the other tests Perl regular expressions."
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