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It indexes all documents and also provides an offline, full-text search engine with JavaScript.

Do a little research into COBOL and a few interesting things jump out at you. Some of this information is from Gartner Group and the rest can easily be verified by doing even a brief survey of the field.

I'm happy to announce the release of DBD::SQLite 1.27, the first production release since the original sprint in March/April. This is a massive release for the DBD::SQLite team.

Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to create their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation.

Alternative lifestyle, community-oriented, Internet-based company is seeking a talented and motivated freelance PERL developer to help build Web apps for their Website.

Jmx4Perl provides an alternate way of accessing Java JEE Server management interfaces that are based on JMX .

Over the last year, I've seen a disturbing trend on the part of some of Perl testing thought-leaders to demonise the testing plan.

Ok so let's get into materials. First you'll need debian. We don't need the 500TB install, or whatever the kids use these days.

With the Select Regular Expression script you can unleash the power of Perl's regular expression parser to easily select a subset of the files you're examining in the Finder.

Among programmers of any experience, it is generally regarded as A Bad Ideatm to attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions.

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is a Perl module which can be used to create native Excel binary files.

The Tk toolkit binds to at least a dozen different languages, including Tcl, Perl, Python, Lua, and Ruby.

This article is a step by step guide to install the HTML::Mason module to use with the ngingx web server and FastCGI.

For the few months, I've been fading away a bit in the Perl/CPAN communities. Certainly I haven't committed much of anything of note to my svn.ali.as repository in a while other than a doing a couple of releases for work mostly done by other people.

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.