First, a brief rundown of the program. We have a perl script that creates some file system structures based on data in a database. We have different perl modules for the different types of file ...

With Corinna, the Perl programming language has had a more mature object system since version 5.38 without the previous weak point of missing keywords. Version 5.38 provides new keywords for object ...

Several months ago, we took a long look at Mason, a Web development environment that combines mod_perl, Apache and templates. One of the examples was that of a system for press releases, in which ...

In the January and February installments of “At the Forge”, I demonstrated a simple three-tier web application using a database, web server and the Mason templating system for mod_perl. We were able ...

POE’s powerful multitasking framework lets applications perform several tasks at once. POE’s message passing capabilities allow applications to be distributed across a network of machines. POE is ...

All field variables can be read and changed within ADJUST{...}. Later, DESTRUCT{...} will be added, which programmers will use to clean up before the object is ...