These are the assumptions for the Perl-Tips category:
Some operating systems that run Perl treat the name of the perl program as a parameter. If you use the Perl code presented on this site, you’ll be able to see what your system thinks the commandline parameters are. I’m assuming, in all my tutorials, that you are […]
As most Perl programmers are wont to say, there’s always more than one way. Perl’s rich feature set allows you to do the same thing using different techniques. When I first started using Perl over 10 years ago, I used it like a C programmer. As I became more comfortable with it, my Perl code […]
Four years ago, I designed and co-wrote a book on web programming using PHP and mySQL. None of the introductory chapters on PHP, XML, WAP and other topics made it to the final print edition. My plan is to release the intro chapters on PHP on this blog.
What I have to do is massage […]
A very common Perl tenet is that there is always more than one way to perform the same functionality. I won’t necessarily provide you the most efficient way, just the easiest to understand and/or explain. I could write entirely cryptic but tiny code snippets, but if I can’t explain it, or you can’t understand it, […]
This blog is a collection of tutorials for web programming. That includes Perl, PHP, XML, mySQL, geoplotting, web analytics and metrics, and more.
The first category to be created here will be Perl Tips. This section/ category is not precisely a beginner’s guide to Perl programming. However, we do cover some basic material as either introduction […]