http://perl.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Perl GuideSite. http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hi http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2008-09-19T02:03:46Z Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/21/how-to-read-character-information-from-the-world-of-warcraft-servers.htm Lets say that you, like me, are addicted to World of Warcraft, and you decide that you'd like to track the progress of your characters, or maybe your friends characters,... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/21/how-to-read-character-information-from-the-world-of-warcraft-servers.htm Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:34:33 +0000 2008-09-21T09:34:33Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/19/a-pragmatic-approach-to-writing-a-mp3-crawler-in-perl.htm 'Pragmatic' can often mean 'boring' but this in-depth look at building a web crawler in Perl is not boring at all. In fact, it's informative and a great example of... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/19/a-pragmatic-approach-to-writing-a-mp3-crawler-in-perl.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:03:46 +0000 2008-09-19T02:03:46Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/12/perl-best-admin-practices.htm Here is some sound advice on Perl administration techniques that's worth a read. Pretty standard stuff, but if you're a programmer that's been double tasked with maintaining the systems you... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/12/perl-best-admin-practices.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:47:43 +0000 2008-09-12T09:47:43Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/05/conditionals-how-to-make-decisions-in-perl-using-unless.htm A conditional is a control structure that will activate specific blocks of your code based upon whether your specified statement (or expression, or condition) evaluates to true or false. You... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/05/conditionals-how-to-make-decisions-in-perl-using-unless.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:05 +0000 2008-09-05T05:00:05Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/03/create-time-availability-maps-with-perl-and-google-earth.htm This is an interesting read that not only has some excellent Perl programming examples, but also shows off how to interface with Google Earth. This set of programs shows how... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/03/create-time-availability-maps-with-perl-and-google-earth.htm Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:00:28 +0000 2008-09-03T05:00:28Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/01/conditionals-how-to-make-decisions-in-perl-using-if-else-and-elsif.htm A conditional is a control structure that will activate specific blocks of your code based upon whether your specified statement (or expression, or condition) evaluates to true or false. You... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/09/01/conditionals-how-to-make-decisions-in-perl-using-if-else-and-elsif.htm Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:00:54 +0000 2008-09-01T05:00:54Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/30/red-hat-perl-performance-problems.htm As demonstrated by this blogger, there are known performance bugs when using the Red Hat builds of Perl and the bless/overload combo. Definitely something that you should avoid if you're... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/30/red-hat-perl-performance-problems.htm Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:45:56 +0000 2008-08-30T10:45:56Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/23/why-i-stick-with-perl.htm Why do people keep using Perl when there are seemingly other 'up-and-coming' languages out there? Ask this blogger, and he'll tell you the same thing a lot of us have... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/23/why-i-stick-with-perl.htm Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:00:21 +0000 2008-08-23T05:00:21Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/21/perl-sorting-techniques.htm This is a highly detailed and excellent look at basic perl sorting. I highly recommend you scan this article either for a refresher, or if you've never tried to understand... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/21/perl-sorting-techniques.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:04:37 +0000 2008-08-21T05:04:37Z http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/19/how-to-tell-if-something-is-a-file-or-a-directory-in-perl.htm Lets say you're building a perl script to traverse a file system and record what it finds. As you open file handles, you need to know if you're dealing with... http://perl.about.com/b/2008/08/19/how-to-tell-if-something-is-a-file-or-a-directory-in-perl.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:29 +0000 2008-08-19T05:00:29Z