If you write enough Perl, you'll reach a point where you need to create a module. And the more you work with quality code modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), the more you're ...

Catalyst is the latest in the evolution of open-source Web development frameworks. Written in modern Perl and inspired by many of the projects that came before it, including Ruby on Rails, Catalyst is ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

Regarding the ability to create a double-clickable Terminal script (see previous item), Scott Lahteine notes that: AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl ...

The latest installment, Wicked Cool Perl Scripts, includes a 75-line script that does currency conversions, including pulling latest conversion rates from xe.com; a 37-line script that searches for ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...

Problem: You need to access a Perl program from your Java program—maybe a custom screen scraper written with LWP (Library for WWW access in Perl), maybe Bugzilla, or maybe one of countless ...