Perl

Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

2009-11-04T09:58:13-08:10

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Four short links: 29 October 2009 - Learning Programming, Functional Javascript, Controlling Firefox, Kicking Ass (with SSDs)

2009-10-29T08:04:08-08:11

Anatomy of SSDs -- A teeth-rattlingly technical Linux Magazine article explaining the different types of SSDs (Solid State Disks--imagine a hard drive made of rapid-access Flash memory). Artur Bergman told me that installing an SSD drive in his MacBook Pro gave the greatest performance increase of any computer upgrade he'd performed since he went from no computer to one. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Four short links: 2 September 2009 - Happy Programmers, Usability Tool, Geo API, Zombie Math

2009-09-02T18:26:53-08:12

The Programming Language With The Happiest Users (Dolores Labs) -- Dolores Labs asks, "Which languages make programmers the happiest?" In examining recent tweets related to mentions of programming languages and analyzing whether the content of the tweet expressed something positive, neutral or negative about the language, Dolores Labs has concluded that users of certain programming languages are happier than others with their choice of code. You'll be surprised at the results of this interesting study. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Maybe software services could harm free software after all (and other news from the Open Source convention)

2009-07-23T16:57:14-08:13

Opening dispatch from OSCon: another look at the effects of Software as a Service on opens source plus awards, APIs, and more.

Unix's Magical Moment, as Foretold by Tom Christiansen

2009-07-23T16:57:14-08:14

Today I received the following from Tom Christiansen, author of several of our bestselling Perl books, frequent speaker at OSCON, and Perl consultant extraordinaire. He asked that we publish this special news on his behalf. If you're at all interested...

Automating System Administration with Perl

2009-05-28T23:50:46-08:15

Tools to Make You More Efficient

Regular Expressions Cookbook

2009-05-27T23:50:59-08:16

Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages

Four short links: 27 Mar 2009

2009-05-15T20:50:48-08:17

Design, Perl, Heresy, and Ephemera: Product Panic: 2009 -- Bruce Sterling essay on design for recession-panicked consumers. As is usual with Bruce, I can't tell whether he's wryly tongue-in-cheek or literally advocating what he says. Great panic products are like Roosevelt’s fireside chats. They’re cheery bluff. The standard virtues of fine industrial design—safety, convenience, serviceability, utility, solid construction … well,...

Masterminds of Programming

2009-03-30T23:47:34-08:18

Masterminds of Programming features exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages. Think along with Adin D. Falkoff (APL), James Gosling (Java), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), and others whose vision and hard work helped shape the computer industry. You'll find advice you can apply to systems you're developing, even if you don't use the specific languages being discussed.

Learning Perl

2008-06-27T23:48:09-08:19

Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. Reflecting years of classroom testing and experience, this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text.

JavaScript: The Good Parts

2008-05-09T14:06:37-08:20

Unearthing the Excellence in JavaScript

Regular Expression Pocket Reference

2007-07-19T18:23:51-08:21

This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries.

Mastering Perl

2007-07-16T18:23:17-08:22

This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will.