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S‎crip‎t Technique

• Code Smarter
• Location of 'use' statements
• Parsing your s‎crip‎t's command line
• Permutations, Getopt::Long, and Pod::Usage
• The Dynamic Duo --or-- Holy Getopt::Long, Pod::UsageMan!
• Re: Blank data file - file locking
• #!/usr/bin/perl -w - use warnings; vs -w
• What Are The Rules For Subs And Modules When Fed Wrong Input
• passing subroutine arguments directly into a hash
• RE: My favorite looping mechanism in Perl is:
• •Day of week for an arbitary date using core modules
• Permutations and combinations
• •Re: Breaking output lines into N-element chunks
• Re: Tracking down "uninitialized value" errs C pre-processor in Perl - #define vs constant
• Simple text menu
• Re: cross platform s‎crip‎ts
• Re: A reasonable temporary password generator? - example of some CPAN password modules
• Help with the concept of closures. - closures & cool merlyn flame war. double your pleasure!
• Closures as Itterators
• Setting up signal handlers for an object with access to $self
• bitwise string operator question

• fork-bomb!
• Threads vs Forking (Java vs Perl)
• faster with threads?
• Re: a question on threads
• forked map is my tribute to merlyn's •Re: Run N similar tasks in parallel
• threaded map is my tribute to BrowserUk's Re: What is the fastest way to download a bunch of web pages?

• perlfunc:_X
• Re: Re: Slurp a file
• Re: One Liners
• RE (tilly) 1: Find files older than x days and delete them
• Re: Proper use of flock
• del files that is 7 days or older
• Re: delete old files (windoze)
• Re: Parsing and modifying CSV files

• Schwartzian Transform
• Map Tutorial: The Basics
• How do you specify which fields to sort by when sorting an array

Math Trix

• greatest common factor
• Continued Fractions
• Finding the max()/min()

OO Technique

• Re: Poor Man's Prototyping?
• ref($proto) - just say no!
• inheritance: constructors
• Multiple inheritance with multiple contructors?
• OO Perl: calling a constructor within a class
• Re^2: Best Practices for Exception Handling - adrianh's Exception::Class example

Database

• The fine art of database programming
• On Databases
• DBI recipes
• A brief survey of the DBI usability layer modules on the CPAN
• Re: Catching DBI (or other) errors
• Re: Accessing MS-Access memofield via DBI
• Tie::DBI vs Class::DBI
• Tree Structure and Db
• Re: Create a MS Access database programmatically in perl
• OT: MySQL performance when the problem isn't Perl
• Database input speed question

Web stuff

• use CGI or die;
• CGI.pm Disillusionment
• Web Month Calendar
• Cache Output HTML ( expiring HTML )
• When Does FatalsToBrowser Not Send Fatals To Browser?
• Web presentation patterns, MVC, and reinventing the wheel
• Cookie Maker
• Re: Code review, good 'ol CGI.
• Best way to parse CGI params
• the perlmonks website sessions... - read js discussion
• ASP PerlS‎crip‎t equivalent for use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
• CGI versus CGI::* modules
• Spaced Out
• •Re: http client - security
• Two-Way Password Encryption - webpage login discussions
• •Re: newbie quest for Image::Grab - merlyn's example of LWP::Simple mirror
• Anti-Spam Mail Address Encoding (with encrypted IP-Address)
• Securing your SOAP Application

Windoze

• Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks
• Win32 development
• Master of your Environment (NT) - regedit and Win32::AdminMisc
• Re: (Get text of Word Document)going through a Win32 MSWORD doc
• Getting a list of all running apps/processes in Win32 then shutting down a given process
• (Not Quite Perl) Running S‎crip‎ts from Right-Click Context Menu in Windows

Language Discussions

• J2EE is too complicated - why not Perl?
• Perl and C++/STL
• A better mod (%) operator?
• Second rate programmers and my confession
• Perl - Is it an OO Language
• (OT) The Schwartzian Transform in Java
• A Cat's eye view of OO - the why behind cargo cult progamming
• Text::xSV - when is reinventing the wheel not reinventing the wheel
• Re: Perl Success Stories
• Death to Dot Star!
• Bottom-Up Data Mining with Perl
• Essential Perl Modules
• Turning a s‎crip‎t into a module
• Favourite modules April 2003
• module wish list for perl v5.6.1

RTFM

• (Ovid - how to find odd answers) Re: how to make a password dissapear?
• Data::Dumper in a nutshell?
• A Guide to Installing Modules

Unsorted
Make a perl s‎crip‎t self aware...
Documentation for POE?
Statement Modifiers, Whaa?
For users of ActiveState Perl, this may someday save you some grief!
Has anyone compared Cygwin Perl to AS Perl?
slurping __DATA__
Coping With Scoping
my our local

programming for finance burned me out and i was looking for something interesting. it was 1998 and silicon alley was seducing anyone/everyone with pipe dreams of stock options. they had windows... isapi... and vb s‎crip‎t... and other tools of mass destruction... but i chanced upon some .asp s‎crip‎ts that had embedded perl. something about the -> operator jumped out at my C++ heritage. and the love afair began.

well, fads come and go. so went the dot coms. and so went i, back to finance.

but there is still love.