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Category: perl

  • Portable GUI applications

    After moving almost entirely to Ubuntu (I haven’t booted Windows on my home computer for almost a month now :)), I searched for ways to create little applications which I can use at my workplace (in a mostly Windows environment). For command line scripts Perl worked out great (just a reminder to everyone, including myself:…

  • Fixing Open Source

    Before you all jump over me: I won’t be talking here about a silver bullet which would take the open source movement in the right direction, ensure its competitiveness or something like that. What I’ll talk about is the joy that you can have by fixing open source scripting libraries. To be specific: in one…

  • You can do anything with Perl – part 2

    You can do anything with Perl – part 2 I’m a PHP person myself and only the last several months did I start to play with Perl on a more serious level. One thing I’ve learned pretty fast: you can (almost) anything with Perl and the first thing you should do when you try to…

  • Why do I love perl?

    Before you accuse me of being a fanboy, I must say that I know that every language has bad sides, but also some incontestable merits. I want to talk about two perl related stories here. They both are a kind of short how-tos, and the morale of the story is that you can find ready…