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Hacking with CouchDB

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

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Search.cpan.org

Text-NSP-1.11

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

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Planet Perl

My favourite Perl Design Pattern

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.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Charlottesville Blogs

Catching erroneous queries, without MySQL proxy

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Programming Languages, Charlottesville, VA

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Freshmeat

XML-Grammar-Fortune 0.0109

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.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Internet News

Where is PHP 6?

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, PHP, Programming Languages

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Planet Perl

Pod::Parser::Groffmom to the CPAN

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.

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Planet Perl

Strawberry Professional, Padre, and Ashton's Law

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Programming Languages, Computers

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Freshmeat

PCRE 8.00

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.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

The ActiveState Blog

PyPM: A package manager for Python

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

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

Associated Content

PHP - Regular Expressions

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.

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Planet Perl

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 16 September 2009

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

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

Planet Perl

Testing Needed: Strawberry October 2009 BioPerl support

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.

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Softpedia

Fix Your Last Input (Regex) 0.2

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.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Planet Perl

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 23 September 2009

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

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

Freshmeat

Date::Pcalc 6.1

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.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

Search.cpan.org

Pod-Autopod-1.04

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.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

Planet Perl

The Original Trait Researchers on the "Class Wins" Issue

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

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

Freshmeat

ns4 4.3.5

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

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Sun Oct 11, 2009

Geekswithblogs.net

How To: Install Bugzilla on Windows

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.

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