How to get 400 Perl-geeks in one building? It's easy: Run the next YAPC::EU! Frankfurt.pm did that and will start suffering tomorrow: Participants from all over the work will come to the German capital of the Internet and money to talk about Perl and meet other Perl guys.
Suchergebnisse mit Tag „perl“
How to convert a hash to a string? Perl is TIMTOWTDY but which way is the fastest? I need a checksum (hash, digest) for the hash, so the string must be the same for the same hash every time. Hash keys are not sorted, even a simple join('', keys(%hash)) may be different for each call (if the hash has at least two keys).
Perl subroutines may be called with or without leading & and with or without () at the end. Either one is strongly recommended - the command might end up as something else than a function call if both are missing.
Some people always complain, even about the language they've been working with for years while they has other options. One of them recently complained that Perl cleans up objects in unpredictable order during global destruction (after exit; and all END blocks). Here is what happend, how we tracked it down and solved it.
Data is getting bigger and bigger as technology advances. We didn't even think about using something inefficent like XML when I started writing sourcecode on a Datapoint 6600 or even in MS-DOS world, but today? A meg more or less doesn't matter today. But sometimes space is still premium and so it is for my current project. I'm working with short strings (text plus some extra chars, about 6 bit per char) and they should be compressed.
Race conditions are nice: Two (or more) tasks are fighting for the same thing at the same time. Row locking on the database may help to avoid such races but only if the database supports them.
The Perl CGI module is commonly used, but it's heavy. CGI::Simple is more lightweight but lacks some features. Here is a feature not supported by CGI but by CGI::Simple.
Web scripts usually do one thing at a time which is quite good as long as there is not too much to do. But serving thousands of request per minute with thousands of source code lines per request starts getting challenging. Bon Jovi asked for help for web scripts some time ago by writing his song "(Whos gonna) work for the working man". Well, there are little chances that he had something else in mind, but who cares.
Typical Perl scripts (and others running as CGI-scripts) run and exit once they're done, but this isn't very efficient with medium or high request counts. Persistent solutions like FCGI and ModPerl avoid the additional interpreter loading and compiling phases, but start being challenging if any source file is changed.
Actually not a 100% real one, but something near by, like this one (near the end of the text).
Crossword puzzle creators must know and remember many words, but everybody could create one with a little help by a computer.
Zoe ist seit einiger Zeit trocken und lange Zeit auch Nachts (mit seltenen Unfällen). Wenn sie Nachts mal muss, geht sie aufs Töpfchen und ruft so lange nach Mama bis wir wach sind. Seit einigen Tagen klappt das leider nicht mehr.
SQL injections are well-known and could easily be used against against most PHP scripts, but there is a much easier injection leak in many Perl scripts: Regular Expression injection.
A blog comment resulting in a new post? Yes, a guy from southern Germany made me do this by trying to use the whole alphabet in his comment.
Perl is TIMTOWTDI but not every style is good style. It allows you to write down source which isn't executed the way you think.
IO::CaptureOutput is a great module but provides limited control. Here is a quick hack to replace the capture_exec function while getting more control about what is being done.
SQL hat viele Nachteile, aber einer der größten ist die Unsinnige Aufteilung zwischen der Erstellung und Veränderung eines Datensatzes. mySQL macht es dem genervten Programmiere mit MyISAM auch nicht leichter, denn Row-Locks oder Transaktionen werden nicht unterstützt. Aber ich schweife ab...
Huston, we have a problem. Our company's headquarter isn't in Huston, but anyway... we got inconsistent data between some mySQL tables. There is a cron job fixing such problems but usually only very few records need assistance, much less than 10 a week. Updating the script to find the newly discovery differences was less than a hour, but running it turned out impossible.
Software Developers need to think straight forward: Line 2 is executed after line 1, never before. But straight forward code isn't always good.
Als Perl-Entwickler gehört man einer Minderheit an: Die Uni's lehren mehr oder weniger gut Java und die Kids steigen mit PHP ein. Es gibt sie, die Perl Jobs, aber sie sind gut versteckt - genauso wie die Entwickler, die sie suchen.
OOP in Perl is pretty simple: Every reference may become an object. But trying to use a reference instead of an object for an OOP call results in Can't call method on unblessed reference.
