The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing
Perl 6 is not finished, but you can already play with it. I hope this article will encourage you to try it. Begin by installing Pugs, a Perl 6 compiler implemented in Haskell. Note that you will also need…
Generating UML and Sequence Diagrams
Imagine yourself in a meeting with management. You’re about to begin your third attempt to explain how to process online credit card payments. After a couple of sentences, you see some eyes glazing over. Someone says, “Perhaps you could…
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Still More Perl Lightning Articles
Using Module::Build, using Swing from Perl, turning modules into scripts, adding mocks to test fixtures-it’s time for more Perl lightning articles!
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Testing Files and Test Modules
For the last several years, there has been more and more emphasis on automated testing. No self-respecting CPAN author can post a distribution without tests. Yet some things are hard to test. This article explains how writing Test::Files gave…
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Symbol Table Manipulation
Having almost achieved the state of perfect laziness, one of my favorite modules is Class::DBI::mysql. It makes MySQL database tables seem like classes, and their rows like objects. This completely relieves me from using SQL in most cases. This…
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Bringing Java into Perl
In this article, I will show how to bring Java code into a Perl program with Inline::Java. I won’t probe the internals of Inline or Inline::Java, but I will tell you what you need to make a Java class available…
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Perl Design Patterns, Part 3
This is the third (and final) article in a series which form one Perl programmer’s response to the book Design Patterns (also known as the Gang of Four book or simply as GoF, because four authors wrote it). As…
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Perl Design Patterns, Part 2
This is the second in a series of articles which form one Perl programmer’s response to the book, Design Patterns (also known as the Gang of Four book or simply as GoF, because four authors wrote it). As I…
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Perl Design Patterns
Introduction In 1995, Design Patterns was published, and during the intervening years, it has had a great influence on how many developers write software. In this series of articles, I present my take on how the Design Patterns book…
