Re: Recommendations for setting up local Perl dev environment

2023-05-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
hi all, On Wed, 24 May 2023 09:25:46 +0800 Ken Peng wrote: > On 2023-05-24 09:21, Joe Sliva Jr. wrote: > > I've been on this list for years but haven't actually used Perl lately. > > That being said, I have an old Perl script that I would like to start > > working with again but would prefer to

Re: Recommendations for setting up local Perl dev environment

2023-05-23 Thread Olivier
>> Can anyone please recommend a local Perl dev install that would work on >> Windows? > > Maybe this one? > https://strawberryperl.com/ I second that. I only used Perl on Windows once and StrawberryPerl did the trick. Olivier -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For

Re: Recommendations for setting up local Perl dev environment

2023-05-23 Thread Ken Peng
On 2023-05-24 09:21, Joe Sliva Jr. wrote: I've been on this list for years but haven't actually used Perl lately. That being said, I have an old Perl script that I would like to start working with again but would prefer to work on it within a local dev environment. Can anyone please recommend a

Recommendations for setting up local Perl dev environment

2023-05-23 Thread Joe Sliva Jr.
I've been on this list for years but haven't actually used Perl lately. That being said, I have an old Perl script that I would like to start working with again but would prefer to work on it within a local dev environment. Can anyone please recommend a local Perl dev install that would work on

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Anderson
Install PDE from CPAN and it'll work alright. It works fine for me on 5.16.1. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-12, at 12:08 AM, Vic Sage vic.s...@me.com wrote: I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to emacs for coding Perl. One seemingly

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Torqued
On 12-Sep-2012, at 9:38, Vic Sage vic.s...@me.com wrote: I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to emacs for coding Perl. One seemingly respected site, http://emacswiki.org/emacs/PerlLanguage, has a lot of links but unfortunately some are pretty dated

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Vic Sage
On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi pangj, On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:28:54 +0800 pangj pa...@riseup.net wrote: Have been coding perl with VIM always. Good for you, but the original question was about Emacs and it is a legitimate question. I had

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Anderson
Another thing to look out for in PDE is a line like: use 5.14; It appears that newer versions of perl will interpret this as version 5.140, not 5.14. You need a zero, like so: use 5.014; Then it will interpret it properly. From my ~/.emacs: (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) (setq

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Vic Sage
On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:59 AM, Paul Anderson wackyvor...@me.com wrote: Install PDE from CPAN and it'll work alright. It works fine for me on 5.16.1. So it does. I was concerned that PDE hadn't been updated in four years. But I gather it works well with all the recent syntax? V -- To

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Anderson
I haven't had any trouble. I think IIRC it may be confused a little by given/when, but not badly. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-12, at 12:20 PM, Vic Sage vic.s...@me.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:59 AM, Paul Anderson wackyvor...@me.com wrote: Install PDE from CPAN and

Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-11 Thread Vic Sage
I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to emacs for coding Perl.One seemingly respected site,http://emacswiki.org/emacs/PerlLanguage, has a lot of links but unfortunately some are pretty dated. For example, the Perl Develop Environment,http://search.cpan.org/dist

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-11 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Vic Sage wrote: I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to emacs for coding Perl. One seemingly respected site, http://emacswiki.org/emacs/PerlLanguage, has a lot of links but unfortunately some are pretty dated

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-11 Thread pangj
Have been coding perl with VIM always. I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to emacs for coding Perl. One seemingly respected site, http://emacswiki.org/emacs/PerlLanguage, has a lot of links but unfortunately some are pretty dated. For example, the Perl

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-11 Thread Vic Sage
On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:24 PM, John SJ Anderson geneh...@genehack.org wrote: Well, there's the 'Tweakers Anonymous' talk I gave at YAPC… * slides: http://www.slideshare.net/genehackdotorg/tweakers-anonymous-13313552 * video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_lY-zlzik Okay - good points to

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-11 Thread John SJ Anderson
There's also my Emacs config: https://github.com/genehack/emacs (the Perl stuff is mostly in etc/perl.el) Okay, this looks good but I don't know how to install it. I have a .emacs file and a .emacs.d directory in my home directory; you have an init.el file and bin, etc, and share

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
of the scope of this thread. See: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/use-qmail-instead/ Regards, Shlomi Fish (who uses gvim and Vim for most coding too). I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to emacs for coding Perl. One seemingly

recommendations for run-time assertions

2009-10-27 Thread David Christensen
beginners: I'm starting on an OO module, and have put some run-time assertion subroutines into a function library: our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' = [ qw( assert_argument_present assert_arguments_gone assert_class_method_signature assert_defined

Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dan wrote: Firstly, I hate web applications with a passion. They're cheap, clunky approximations of desktop applications, Agreed. Nothing beats a good set of native binary widgets for expressiveness and responsiveness. Gtk2::Ex::DBI,

Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:00:13 David Christensen wrote: Perl Beginners: I am thinking about a Perl web/ database application for political organizing and campaigns -- generating precinct walk lists, generating phone banking lists, tracking contacts, etc.. I am using Debian GNU/Linux 5

Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-28 Thread Dermot
2009/7/28 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com: Perl Beginners: I am thinking about a Perl web/ database application for political organizing and campaigns -- generating precinct walk lists, generating phone banking lists, tracking contacts, etc..  I am using Debian GNU/Linux 5 with

Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 03:59:36 Dan wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:00:13 -0700, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: Perl Beginners: I am thinking about a Perl web/ database application for political organizing and campaigns snipped I plan to start with the database

Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-28 Thread sys adm
currently I'm using CGI,CGI::Cookie,DBI,Template::Toolkit,Linux,Apache and SQLite for a small data scratching project. being very happy with them. --- dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: Also, what about the various WWW tools -- e.g. CGI.pm, CGI::Application, HTML::Template, Template::Toolkit,

recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-27 Thread David Christensen
Perl Beginners: I am thinking about a Perl web/ database application for political organizing and campaigns -- generating precinct walk lists, generating phone banking lists, tracking contacts, etc.. I am using Debian GNU/Linux 5 with Apache 2.2, mod_perl 2, PostgreSQL 8.3, and Perl 5.10. I

Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-27 Thread Dan
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:00:13 -0700, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: Perl Beginners: I am thinking about a Perl web/ database application for political organizing and campaigns snipped I plan to start with the database portion of the application and am curious what

RE: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-27 Thread David Christensen
Dan wrote: Firstly, I hate web applications with a passion. They're cheap, clunky approximations of desktop applications, Agreed. Nothing beats a good set of native binary widgets for expressiveness and responsiveness. and are simply not necessary. Unfortunately in this case, a web UI is

Recommendations of module to use on tab-delimited file?

2005-04-20 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
recommendations on which module to pick? Thank you for your advice and suggestions. -Kevin - E. Kevin Zembower Internet Systems Group manager Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Re: Recommendations of module to use on tab-delimited file?

2005-04-20 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I'm inclined to use Text::xSV because of it's recent update. I've used Text::CSV_XS successfully before, but it hasn't been revised lately (maybe it doesn't need to be revised?) and it seems more complex than the others, requiring the use of

Your recommendations to tie multi-level data structures

2004-03-29 Thread Phil Schaechter
All, I would like the ability to tie a database and use it as a multi-level data structure, like $tied{hash}{subhash} $tied{hash}{array}[0] Etc... Any recommendations for this? I've heard I should check out the MLDBM module. How have others conquered this issue? Is it possible? Thanks

RE: Your recommendations to tie multi-level data structures

2004-03-29 Thread Bob Showalter
Phil Schaechter wrote: All, I would like the ability to tie a database and use it as a multi-level data structure, like $tied{hash}{subhash} $tied{hash}{array}[0] Etc... Any recommendations for this? I've heard I should check out the MLDBM module. How have others conquered

Re: Recommendations on Programming Style

2004-01-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Question #1: Does anyone have any favorite document that is a style guide for perl programmers? There are entire books on the subject of style for C++ programmers, I've not seen any for perl, though. Well there is the perlstyle doc page, perldoc perlstyle that gives general suggestions

Recommendations on Programming Style

2004-01-25 Thread Richard Heintze
Question #1: Does anyone have any favorite document that is a style guide for perl programmers? There are entire books on the subject of style for C++ programmers, I've not seen any for perl, though. I'm in the unfortunate position of being a lone programmer on a Perl project. I've taught myself

Re: Recommendations?

2003-12-10 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Derek Brinson wrote: Where might I find reference (conceptual) stuff about how to launch a JAVA app via CGI (or vice versa)? Still working it out, but it appears that I may need to get some CGI variables into a JAVA App. Surely this is too difficult to be encapsulated in a website or two?

Recommendations?

2003-12-09 Thread Derek Brinson
Where might I find reference (conceptual) stuff about how to launch a JAVA app via CGI (or vice versa)? Still working it out, but it appears that I may need to get some CGI variables into a JAVA App. Surely this is too difficult to be encapsulated in a website or two? -d

Re: Recommendations?

2003-12-09 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:01 PM, Derek Brinson wrote: Where might I find reference (conceptual) stuff about how to launch a JAVA app via CGI (or vice versa)? Still working it out, but it appears that I may need to get some CGI variables into a JAVA App. Surely this is too difficult to be encapsulated

Re: Recommendations?

2003-12-09 Thread drieux
On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Derek Brinson wrote: [..] Where might I find reference (conceptual) stuff about how to launch a JAVA app via CGI (or vice versa)? Still working it out, but it appears that I may need to get some CGI variables into a JAVA App. [..] The direction might be of concern.

Re: Recommendations?

2003-12-09 Thread Philipp Traeder
Hi Derek, On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:01, Derek Brinson wrote: Where might I find reference (conceptual) stuff about how to launch a JAVA app via CGI (or vice versa)? Could you specify what kind of Java application you're talking about? The Java *applications* (as opposed to servlets, EJBs etc.)

Re: crash course recommendations

2002-06-10 Thread Kamali Muthukrishnan
Hi , there is one I use as a resource - www.wdvl.com/Authouring/Languages Sol [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/09/02 05:42AM Hi there, I've inherited an intranet server run interactive pages with perl-cgi scripts, one of which I need to edit in a hurry, which is a bit of a problem considering I know

crash course recommendations

2002-06-09 Thread Sol
Hi there, I've inherited an intranet server run interactive pages with perl-cgi scripts, one of which I need to edit in a hurry, which is a bit of a problem considering I know about zero Perl. (Luckily I know some rudimentary SQL HTML) I've been scouring the WWW for tutorials on perl-cgi

Re: crash course recommendations

2002-06-09 Thread Curt Eiworth
Sol! This one is the best: http://www.easystreet.com/~ovid/cgi_course/ FYI: IMHO, Ovid is the *guruest* of all the Perl gurus, though not all that poetic best of luck /curt Den 2002-06-09 12:42:59 skrev Sol [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, I've inherited an intranet server run interactive

Re: Parallel Fork Manager recommendations?

2002-05-11 Thread Zachary Buckholz
working ok. But I Zachary was curious to see if anyone had any recommendations for other alternatives? Zachary The current program I am considering using it in is a rewrite of a search Zachary engine submission program we have been using for a long time and it Zachary currently uses

Re: Parallel Fork Manager recommendations?

2002-05-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Zachary == Zachary Buckholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zachary I have been using Parallel::ForkManager for a while and it has worked great Zachary for me I just used it again in another program and it's working ok. But I Zachary was curious to see if anyone had any recommendations for other

database recommendations?

2002-03-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; It sounds like there are two main dbms in common use; PostgreSQL and mysql. What are the preferences of the group members? Are there any major or important differences between them? Any religious issues? ;-) Thanks for any info, Dennis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: database recommendations?

2002-03-05 Thread Oliver Andrich
Hi, I use both. My decision which to use in what projects is solely based on performance vs. feature comparisons. Where I need transactions, subselects (no complaint about this, I find sometimes problems where I need them) and all this, and on the other hand, my application is _not_ purely