I used to subscribe to loads of computer journals. I still mourn the passing of some of them, such as Computer Language (especially when it ran the column Exotic Language of the Month), and The C Gazette (which had some truly brilliant code).

Over the years I have let the subscriptions lapse to just about all of them, except for Doctor Dobb's Journal. (Given that TPJ is in limbo at the moment, oh and for some reason Web Techniques lost my last renewal).

What it has come down to is that I can get all the short term solutions, and long term strategies I need, by reading stuff on the web.

But in spite of that, I'm still faithful to DDJ. The regular columnists are excellent and the feature articles are pretty interesting... and the magazine continues its practice of including source code listings.

I actually wandered over there looking to see whether Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Omnibus was on-line, and... it is. I was wondering about this after having read z0d's node on PerlMonks puzzles, figuring that some of Dr. Ecco's problems are just crying out to be solved with Perl.

Be that as it may, as I was scouting around at the DDJ site I discovered that brian d foy has been busy over there, with a column devoted to Perl. Topics include profiling with Perl and creating Perl code graphs. Also worth noting is that Brent Michalski wrote some of the earlier articles.

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