Softpanorama Perl Bulletin, 1999

NEWS CONTENTS

• 19991206 : PerlMonth Issue #7 has been published ( PerlMonth Issue #7 has been published, Dec. 6, 1999 )
• 19991206 : Random findings ( Dec. 6, 1999 )
• 19990918 : CGI101 - Learn CGI Today! ( CGI101 - Learn CGI Today!, Sept 18, 1999 )
• 19990918 : Introduction to Perl & CGI Programming ( Introduction to Perl & CGI Programming, Sept 18, 1999 )
• 19990803 : Etc ( Aug 3, 1999 )

Old News ;-)

[Dec. 6, 1999] PerlMonth Issue #7 has been published

"Welcome to the seventh edition of PerlMonth. In this issue Joshua takes Apache::ASP to the next level. Learn how to fine tune your configuration to make your Web Site run like a Porche instead of a Honda. Joshua shows how you can serve up 1,000,000 pages a day without a sweat. We are starting our new Jobs Listing section this month. All jobs listed here will be Perl related. No more going through thousands of unrelated entries to find only a few Perl related jobs. New jobs will be added everyday so check back often if you are on the market or just want to know what's out there for Perl programmers. We are starting our Book Review section this month also. Rachel Rawlings has reviewed "Elements of Programming with Perl" by the hot, new Publisher, Manning Publications. Each month we will review a different book. If you like to review a book let us know and we will set it up. Enjoy the articles."

"Table Of Contents

• The MacPerl Development Environment
• Perl Mailing Lists
• XS Mechanics - Part 2
• Advanced listboxes with Tk::HList
• mod_perl Strategy and Implementation - Part 4
• Elements of Programming with Perl
• Apache::ASP Site Tuning"

[Dec. 6, 1999] Random findings

• Perl The first post-modern programming language -- nice Perl advocacy
• Picking Up Perl, a Freely Redistributable Perl Tutorial Book - still very raw...
• Locked -- should probably be built-in in the language, but anyway this module is better than nothing :-)
• cron.pl
• www.perl.com - A Short Guide to DBI
• LinuxFocus- Perl part I
• Web Techniques- Programming with Perl- Have You Ever Meta-Index Like This-
• Getting Started With Perl
• CGI Made Really Easy -- basic tutorial on CGI

[Sept 18, 1999] CGI101 - Learn CGI Today! -- good tutorial

This class is written by Jacqueline Hamilton. (me) If you have any questions or comments about the course, feel free to email me at [email protected]. Since this is a part-time effort for me (and since I'm busy finishing up the book!), I can't guarantee replies... but I do love feedback. :)

Contents

I strongly suggest working through these in order, because each chapter builds on material you learned in the previous chapter.

• Introduction - What is CGI? Why learn it? What do you need to get started?
• Chapter 1: Getting Started - where to write your scripts; how to upload to the Unix host; changing permissions; writing your first CGI
• Chapter 2: Perl Variables - Scalars, arrays, and hashes
• Chapter 3: CGI Environment Variables - Using data from environment variables; writing forms using GET
• Chapter 4: Processing Forms Writing forms using POST: a form-to-mail CGI
• Chapter 5: Advanced Forms Handling radio buttons, checkboxes, and select fields; writing a survey/poll CGI
• Chapter 6: Reading and Writing Data Files - File permissions; how to open, read, write, and close files
• Conclusion - where to from here?
• Bonus Section - Searching Files
  This lesson was part of the old CGI Programming 101 class. The material has been updated and modified for a later chapter in the book, and that chapter is not available here online.... but rather than delete this information entirely, I'm leaving the old lesson up for reference purposes.

The entire class is also available as a printable PDF file (33 pages, 109K).

[Sept 18, 1999] Introduction to Perl & CGI Programming

The course based on Medinets book.

This is a complete course in Perl 5 programming (more properly called scripting) with CGI applications. The required equipment and materials are:

1. A Windows-compatable PC
2. Windows 95 or 98 installed
3. Microsoft Notepad or similar text editor
4. Access to a Perl compiler that is running under one of the major operating systems such as Unix, Windows95/NT, or OS/2.
   Note: Lesson 1 describes how you can find, obtain, install, or do whatever is necessary to access a Perl compiler.

The course is presently built around the online version of David Medinets' book, Perl 5 By Example. Students who have no previous programming or scripting experience can expect to spend between 1 and 2 hours on each lesson, including the time for doing the hands-on examples and exercises. Typical completion time for the course is about 1 quarter, or 12 weeks.

How to Take This Course

Bookmark this page--it is the starting point for each lesson. Then click on the lesson (over there in the left-hand column) you want to study. That will take you to a study guide for that lesson. The instructions should be clear at that point.

Good luck. Or better yet, work hard, work smart, and you will make your own luck.

Dave Heiserman, Manager
Free-Ed, Ltd.

[Aug 3, 1999] Etc

• perlpp cpp on Steroids LG #44
• [July 17, 1999] ped A text editor with an emacs/vi-like user interface written in perl. Jul 08th 1999, 21:24 stable: none - devel: 0.1.2 license: Artistic
• [July 17, 1999]Paw (Perl ASCII Widgets) is a widgetset for generating a GUI on ASCII based terminals. It contains button, radiobutton, label, line, listbox, text_entry, pull-down-menu, filedialog, popup-box and more. Examples are included. This
  software requires Perl::Curses.
• [July 17, 1999]Newt is a perl library built on top of Red Hat's newt C library for text screen widgets.

• Allows a perl programer to build simple but effective text-mode user interfaces with little effort. It is very usable because it has complete support for all widgets found in newt C library and provides a nice abstraction over the C interface. Full documentation is provided.

• [July 17, 1999]WebRSH WebRSH is a CGI program which implements a general purpose web-based computing shell. It provides a command line interface, file manager, text editor, and a few other basic things, while being highly configurable and adaptable to various tasks. It can replace, to some extent, rsh, telnet, and ftp daemons. WebRSH is implemented in Perl, and runs on both UNIX and Win32 platforms.
• [July 16, 1999] DBMEdit -- A user-friendly Web-based DBM database editor (in Perl 5)
  Feb 10th 1999, 20:59 stable: 1.0 - devel: none license: OpenSource
• [June 22, 1999] EathWeb Perl scripting tutorials resources and information -- very nice site. Contains Perl journal

• open source IT - Tutorials A database interface in Perl 5

• [June 18, 1999] Perlmonth, Just use Perl; -- new e-zine. Good
• [June 14, 1999] Perl versus PHP for Web Design (part 1)
• [May 27, 1999] web_log processing scripts
• [May 27, 1999] web_site_management scripts
• [April 9, 1999] The Perl Filesystem for Linux now you can write file systems in perl, instead of C.
• [March 18, 1999] perl.oreilly.com -- Open Source Profile Douglas Battenberg
• [March 10, 1999] http://www.grovehillsys.com/scripting/
• [December 10, 1998] Free Perl Scripts At The Free Well -- good collection of Perl links
• [November 7, 1998] Selena Sol The WDVL Introduction to Databases for the Web
• [November 4, 1998]Second Perl conference
• What you missed at Perl Conference 2.0 - SunWorld - September 1998
• 98 Perl Conference - Perl Conference 3.0 -- The Call for Participation
• [November 4, 1998] Perl Mongers Starting a Group -- the site devoted to Perl user groups
• [November 4, 1998] Updated Perl Documentation
• [July 30,1998] Perl Debugger Built With a Perl/Tk User Interface
• [July 25, 1998] Links to WEB logs processing scripts were added;
• [July 25, 1998] HTML Converters were added;

Etc

Society

Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

Quotes

War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda  : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes :  Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce :  Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes

Bulletin:

Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :  Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method  : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law

History:

Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds  : Larry Wall  : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS :  Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development :  Scripting Languages : Perl history   : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history

Classic books:

The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-Month :  How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Hater’s Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite

Most popular humor pages:

Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor

The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt. Ph.D

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