Make clones of applications on the web using new Ruby book
Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby is a new book that helps programmers clone some of the Internet's most popular applications in... more »
How to Become Mayor for Any Place in Foursquare in 9 Perl Statements
Mayank Lahiri has developed a 9-statement Perl script to game the check-in process for Foursquare, allowing you to become the Mayor of... more »
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Github Stats - by Programming Language
An overview of the leading languages on github - as measured by the number of users and repositories.
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Whatever happened to Perl?
Once one of the pillars of the Internet, is Perl now fading away -- or will Perl 6 will spark a renaissance for the programming language?
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Battle of the server side scripting languages – Perl, PHP, Python
For a very long time I have wondered if there were any real benefits between Perl, PHP or Python from a performance standpoint – I dabble... more »
A regular expression to check for prime numbers
Regular expressions are extremely powerful: /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ checks if a number is prime or not.
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Is your code poorly commented? Three indicators…
One fact that is agreed upon – is that it takes a lot of time to understand code. Poorly commented code just makes this harder. The... more »
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Daily Dose - Apple Sues HTC Some More
Apple sues HTC, HTC sues Apple, and then Apple sues HTC again.
Daily Dose - QR Code For Android on GitHub
On GitHub you can now scan special codes to wirelessly download Android software. For the iPhone, there's a new MuleSoft app that lets... more »
Why R doesn’t suck
I first encountered the R programming language a few years ago when I needed to make some plots. Although I’ve used it occasionally... more »
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Check out the open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java, Python and Perl
Check out the open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java, Python and Perl.
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The Second Age of Perl!
Today, with the power vested in me by myself, I hereby declare that we are now in the Second Age of Perl; and it has nothing to do with Perl 6!
If I Could Forget a Programming Language
A personal view on the languages that have made a difference to my coding career, and which ones are just taking up space...
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Perl vs Go vs Scala performance
I've been playing with Go and Scala a bit lately, and was curious to benchmark them doing something vaguely similar to my real-world Perl tasks.
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Why Perl isn't Going Away Soon
The Perl language has had less buzz surrounding it than many other languages and development environments, but Perl is still a key... more »
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Google CodeJam : Alien Language Problem with Solution
After years of study, scientists at Google Labs have discovered an alien language transmitted from a faraway planet. The alien language... more »
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Daily Dose - Will Google's VP8 Video Codec Solve HTML5 Video Dilemma?
A third codec may soon be in the HTML5 mix if the reports are true about Google is planning to open source VP8. The reports about Apple... more »
35 Really Useful PHP Tutorials And Development Techniques
PHP is the most popular and widely accepted server side scripting language among developers due to its easy to learn nature, free of cost... more »
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Daily Dose - EU Ballot Causing a Drop in IE Usage
The browser ballot in Europe is not working in IE's favor, but it's working wonders for Opera's market share. The makers of the... more »
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Falling out of love with a language
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I’m a Perl hacker. I have been for around 16 years now. Around 5 years ago, prompted by the Pragmatic Programmer and Adam Turoff, I... more »
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Collecting Twitter Data After An Event – GeoTweetHistory.pl
I am releasing the Perl script I run to collect Twitter data after an event, GeoTweetHistory.pl, as an open source project, under the... more »
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Why Facebook's HipHop for PHP is important
According to the announcement, HipHop is a code transformer that turns PHP code into "highly optimised C++". By using HipHop on their... more »
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Perl 6 Update: Parrot 2.0.0 Released!
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 2.0.0 "Inevitable." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic... more »
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Cool Things in Perl 6
Yeah, Perl 6 is going to allow us to do very interesting things...
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Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation
This is the fourth part of a nine-part article on famous Perl one-liners. In this part I will create various one-liners for string and array creation.
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