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Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Four short links: 29 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 29, 2009

Julie Learns to Program -- blog from our own Julie Steele as she learns her first programming language. The point is: it’s in me. I wasn’t sure that is was, and now I know—it is. And what, exactly, is “it”? It is the bug. It is the combination of native curiosity and stubbornness that made me play around with...

Getting Java, C# and Perl to speak the same language (with JSON)

By Andrew Stellman
October 4, 2009

I've been thinking a lot about architecture lately. It's partially because Jenny and I are going to do our Beautiful Teams talk at the ITARC 2009 conference next week. But it's also because I've been writing a lot of code...

Four short links: 2 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 1, 2009

The Programming Language With The Happiest Users (Dolores Labs) -- you'll be surprised. Age before beauty! Judge It Now -- fast market opinions on design decisions. Compare to Optimal Sort. Usability tools hitting the mainstream web, so the time to learn what works shrinks and progress is faster. BlockChalk API -- These new interfaces enable developers to do nearly...

Maybe software services could harm free software after all (and other news from the Open Source convention)

By Andy Oram
July 22, 2009

Opening dispatch from OSCon: another look at the effects of Software as a Service on opens source plus awards, APIs, and more.

Four short links: 27 Mar 2009

By Nat Torkington
March 27, 2009

Design, Perl, Heresy, and Ephemera: Product Panic: 2009 -- Bruce Sterling essay on design for recession-panicked consumers. As is usual with Bruce, I can't tell whether he's wryly tongue-in-cheek or literally advocating what he says. Great panic products are like Roosevelt’s fireside chats. They’re cheery bluff. The standard virtues of fine industrial design—safety, convenience, serviceability, utility, solid construction … well,...

Unix's Magical Moment, as Foretold by Tom Christiansen

By Allen Noren
February 13, 2009

Today I received the following from Tom Christiansen, author of several of our bestselling Perl books, frequent speaker at OSCON, and Perl consultant extraordinaire. He asked that we publish this special news on his behalf. If you're at all interested...

CGI is Dead; mod_perlite is Alive!

By chromatic
January 15, 2009

PHP's application deployment model is difficult to beat. Perl has lacked something similar for years -- until now. Byrne Reese and Aaron Stone address the gap between CGI and mod_perl with mod_perlite, one of the features Perl 5 needs most.

Craig Newmark Interview: A Brief History of Craigslist

By Timothy M. O'Brien
December 13, 2008

A brief conversation with Craig Newmark from this year's Personal Democracy Forum 2008. In this interview Craig talks about the founding of Craiglist, how he came to found one of the most popular sites on the web. Craig also discusses his work with the Obama team and some of the important customer service issues facing Craigslist.

What are Your Force Multipliers in Software Development?

By chromatic
December 12, 2008

Programming language features and tools are obvious force multipliers for software developers. Development practices are less obvious. Here are some of my favorite productivity improvements.

Five Features Perl 5 Needs Now

By chromatic
December 10, 2008

Perl is 21 years old and Perl 5 is 14 years old. The language has aged well, but there's room to improve. Here are five features which to make hard things easy and difficult things possible.

Beginners Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Perl

By chromatic
November 12, 2008

Perl is a great language for processing text and automating tasks. It's also a fully-capable modern programming language, with effective modularization and object oriented capabilities. Though that sounds scary, they're easy to understand (and even easier to accomplish, through shiny modern tools such as Moose and Mouse).

A Beginner's Introduction to Perl Web Programming

By chromatic
September 5, 2008

Previous articles in this series showed how to use Perl for text processing and general purpose programming. Now it's time to demonstrate how to use Perl on the web.

A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10, part three

By chromatic
September 2, 2008

Modern Perl development is quick, easy, powerful, and maintainable. Doug Sheppard and chromatic demonstrate how to find and manipulate text in documents with regular expressions.

Perl's Persistant Library: DBD Creator Tim Bunce at OSCON 2008

By James Turner
September 2, 2008

The DBD and DBD libraries are among the oldest and most successful perl libraries and existence, pretty much any perl program that talks to a database uses them. The creator of DBD, Tim Bunce, spent some time at OSCON 2008 talking to O'Reilly News about the history of DBD and how Tim has managed such a large and critical project.

The Test Anything Protocol IETF Working Group

By Curtis Poe
August 21, 2008

For those of you who are Perl or PHP programmers and who also do heavy testing, there's an excellent chance that you've heard of TAP, the Test Anything Protocol. It's easy to implement, easy to parse, and is gaining in popularity. Because it's being implemented so widely, we've decided to form an IETF working group and we need your help.

The Mind of Damian Conway: Science, Computer Science, the Future of Perl 6, and Advice for Today's Aspiring Programmers

By Kathryn Barrett
August 21, 2008

At this year's OSCON, Terry Camerlengo, sat down with Damian Conway, author of Perl Best Practices and Perl Hacks, to get his thoughts on a wide variety of subjects, including the what-and-when of Perl 6 and what he thinks is important for the next generation of computer scientists. Watch the video (or read on) to hear what he says.

Making Easy Things Easy & Hard Things Possible

By O'Reilly Media
August 14, 2008

Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. Reflecting years of classroom testing and experience, this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text. Learn more.

At OSCON with the Mad Scientist of Perl ...In Negative Time

By chromatic
August 14, 2008

Damian Conway has a well-deserved reputation as the mad scientist of Perl. His opening night keynote at OSCON 2008 combined Perl programming, the difference engine, quantum mechanics, and general relativity to produce variables which travel backwards in time.

Announcing Perl on Google's App Engine

By chromatic
August 14, 2008

Perl hacker and Googler Brad Fitzpatrick just announced a Google-supported, community-driven project to support the Perl language on Google's App Engine.

Larry Wall at OSCON: Open Source as a Parenting Experience

By James Turner
August 14, 2008

Larry Wall, father of perl, likens the history of perl to raising a child. In this live interview at OSCON 2008, Larry talks about perl's rebellious teen years, the role of the benevolent dictator, and dual licensing as a quantum physics phenomenon.

Tuesday's OSCON Event Schedule

By chromatic
August 14, 2008

OSCON is happening right now at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, bringing together thousands of experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. Today's afternoon sessions include: Creating Location-aware Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Geospatial Platform TCP/IP Troubleshooting for System Administrators People for Geeks Practical Erlang Programming Porting to Python 3.0 Hack This App! PHP Security Workshop ...and more! For more information about OSCON and to view the complete event schedule visit our OSCON 2008 site.

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