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Working with CouchDB is very straightforward. There's virtually no setup involved and no complicated libraries to hassle with.

Perl modules for computing association scores of Ngrams. This module provides the basic framework for these measures.

Design Patterns have been an on-again, off-again fad for a while now. Statements like "Perl doesn't need Design Patterns, we have the CPAN" are common because most of the well-known patterns come from Java, where you can't do much of anything without 100 lines of structural boilerplate.

MySQL Proxy is a really neat tool. I remember a few years back when I first saw Jan talking about it.

Grammar-Fortune is a Perl/RelaxNG/XSLT module that allows one to collect quotes using an XML grammar, with richer metadata, and to produce XHTML and plain text from them.

From the ' Vaporware Language Release ' files: Back in 2005, I wrote a story for InternetNews.com where I wrote that I expected PHP 6 to be out in 2006.

I wanted to upload a new version of my Logic Programming in Perl article, but replacing presentations is currently disabled in Slideshare : and how to embed literal mom sequences in the POD, in case someone wants fine-grained control.

I love polls and surveys, because they tend to clarify almost any situation enormously.

The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5, with just a few differences.

Package managers are useful things. For language distributions, they simplify the job of finding and installing modules, libraries or extensions for that language.

What is a regular expression? Regular expressions are patterns created using ASCII characters to manipulate strings, that is to say, to find the portions of the chain corresponding to the model.

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 16 September 2009. Larry, Patrick, Jerry, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.

Dear BioPeople Since we added a "Live Support Chat" link to the frontpage of the Strawberry Perl website we've noticed that one of the main types of visitors that we see in the IRC channel is biologists trying to install various things.

When some people in an IRC enter a typo, they pretend to fix it by applying a Perl regular expression that substitutes their typo with the correction.

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 23 September 2009. Larry, Patrick, Jerry, and Nicholas attended.

The Date::Pcalc Perl module is a direct translation of Steffen Beyer's excellent Date::Calc module from a combination of C and Perl to Perl only.

Generates pod documentation by analysing perl modules. 1.04 Documentation autopod using the Perl library Pod::Autopod to generate javadoc like documentation with pod syntax.

I started thinking again about why class methods silently override role methods.

It allows the automated backup of node configurations to an FTP/SFTP server or local media on a daily basis to create configuration archives.

I won't complain, because it is free... But ... My Particular Experience was with IIS on Windows Server 2008, but the experience should be about the same for XP, Vista, Server 2003, and 2008.