Wee! Buffy and software development in one compact bit of linky goodness. As part of the 2002 Perl Advent Calendar, the London Perl Mongers explain the Params::Validate module using the Slayer as an example.
[ via Danny O'Brian's Oblomovka ] One great thing about Perl is the community. The people using the language want to help. That’s good because Perl can be frustrating in it’s ‘more than one way to do it’-ness. For the past three years, the Perl Advent Calendar has been walking people through the use of [...]
Dan Lyke wrote about the Perl regular expression for extracting XMP from Adobe files: In the XML extractor, try replacing the grouping for $3, currently “(.*)”, with “(.*?)”. “*” and “+” are default greedy, so the rest of the match will match the last occurrence of that in the document. The “?” makes them non-greedy. [...]
Over at w3.org, Dan Brickley wrote a web tool to extract Adobe XMP data from Adobe files such as PDFs and Photoshop files. I asked him about the script, and he wrote that the key is a Perl regular expression applied to the document: m/id=’W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d’\s*(bytes=’)*([^']*)’?\?>(.*)<\?xpacket end=’([^']*)’\?>/sg The XMP is returned in $3. You’ll want to [...]
Chamas consulting put together a set of Web Application benchmarks on Apache, comparing the throughput and memory usage of a ‘Hello World’ application written in various frameworks (mod_perl, PHP, JSP, XSLT, custom Apache Modules). As you’d expect, the custom Apache API modules were the top performers, but mod_perl appeared to outdo mod_php, in both throughput [...]
[ via Daring Fireball ] Oh, so that’s why the QuickTime installer balked…
Propaganda from my employer about Macs and the Human Genome Project. One of the researchers keeps a copy of the Human genome on his iPod. If he’s a Neil Young fan, does that me he’ll ‘rip, mix, burn’ himself a Cinnamon Girl?
[ via Camworld ] O’Reilly’s published a book on HTML::Mason, which I’ve not had the opportunity to work with, but I’ve seen some extensive demos. Mason drives Salon and The Nation.
Looking for an Apache 2.0 to run under OS X.2? Server Logistics has packages for Apache (which install under /Library), Perl, PHP, Tomcat, and other server components.
Kevin (Morbus) walks you through building and installing Perl 5.8 on Mac OS 10.2.
[ via BoingBoing ] Mena and Ben released a stand-alone Perl implementation of Moveable Type’s Trackback that you can wire into your own weblogging tools. It’s released under the Artistic License. Yay!
[ via XML Database JuJu ] Woah. A shell, written in Perl, for editing, piping and manipulating XML.
Tim O’Reilly gave a version of his essay on Inventing the Future as his keynote talk at the Apple WWDC this afternoon. He put a Mac spin on things (of course,) and said some things that make me proud to be a Mac Partisan: the Perl 6 internals team is using Mac OS. James Gosling’s [...]
In a comment on Edd Dumbul’s O’Reilly WebLog, Mike Champion reminds us that 95% of what SOAP does can be done in a few lines of Perl or sh. Update: In his WebLog, Mike clarifies: “For the record, I said that 95% of what ordinary people would do with SOAP (e.g. the infamous “Hello, Stockticker” [...]