Schwartzian Transforms in Java
Libraries like Java's Collections API contain numerous algorithms tuned to give good performance in a theoretical 'typical case', but it can be very... more »
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Performance of Python, PHP and Perl
Performance comparison between a few languages for a simple parse and load database task.
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Software Development Automation with Scripting Languages
The Scripting languages are deployed in many operative systems, either in UNIX/Linux or Windows. These languages are developed for general purpose... more »
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Java Swings, you say? Are you crazy?
Almost half of the Resumes I get to interview on Swing, write: “Swings” instead of “Swing”. They don’t seem to do the same mistake with other... more »
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5 web development techniques to prevent Google from crawling your HTML forms
5 web development techniques to prevent Google from crawling your HTML forms. do you really want Googlebot messing around in your HTML forms? Probably... more »
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Perl is not going away
I’ve been taking DDJ for a couple years now. It’s cheap and occasionally has something interesting in it, but it’s been less interesting than I... more »
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App Engine with Ruby, Python, and Perl
I had a fair amount of email from people, and saw some blogs, complaining about the fact that Google App Engine currently supports Python only. On the... more »
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Analyzing Keyword Activity on Coding Horror
Coding Horror makes its traffic stats publicly available. Unfortunately just the last 500 records are available. I wrote a program to accumulate... more »
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10 Perl modules all Java developers should know
There are numerous CPAN modules which are designed to import Java classes into Perl scripts or access Java APIs like Swing, JDBC and JNI. This... more »
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Do not learn Perl
A tongue-in-cheek response to a recent blog post about Ruby
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Zip-ability of source code
Some computing languages are more verbose than others. Some frameworks are more DRY than others. What's the compression ratio of source code?
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So I Don't Like Perl. Sue Me.
A number of folks commented on the last post about my "ignorant and apparently unsupported swipes against Parrot and Perl".
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Perlisms in Ruby: regular expression syntaxes
Ruby heavily borrowed from Smalltalk, Lisp and Perl. While trying to make Hpricot test suite run fine on Ruby 1.9.0 author found regular expressions... more »
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TIOBE Declares Python the Programming Language of 2007
The TIOBE Programming Community Index has declared Python as the Programming Language of 2007 due to a surge in its popularity rating during the year,... more »
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The most useful perl program in the world
This little gem of a perl has so many uses. I can think of about 11 right now. Now i must make an application which uses this code. Note: this works... more »
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What the Perl 6 and Parrot Hackers Did on their Christmas Vacation
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. As many... more »
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bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel'
Suppose you are running ssh to some system called neptune, which doesn't necessarily have your editor of choice (e.g., gvim for this guy) installed.... more »
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New Book - Catalyst: Accelerating Perl Web Application Development
* Understand the Catalyst Framework and MVC architecture * Build and test a site with Catalyst * Detailed walkthroughs to create sample... more »
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Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...
I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can't define it, but I'll know it when I see it. Here are some common memes floating... more »
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Why should I use perl 5.10?
Here are some things of the top of my head that I think are pretty cool
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Python! (cartoon)
XKCD has been trying Python in place of Perl
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The Great Ruby Shootout
Back in February, I made a very popular post which compared several implementations of the Ruby language. More than 9 months later, I’m back with a... more »
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Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet
Perl on Rails is a project by the smart chaps over in BBC Audio and Music Interactive that replicates the Ruby On Rails MVC framework in Perl. They’re... more »
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How Regexes Work
This isn't an article about how to use regexes; you've probably seen plenty of those already. It's about how you would write a regex package from... more »
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Perl on Rails
Like most organisations the BBC has its own technical ecosystem; the BBC's is pretty much restricted to Perl and static files. This means that the... more »
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