Category: The Perl Programming Language
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added “Perl Power Tools” to the PPT “disambiguation page” on the English wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPT I am curious, how long this entry will survive there. It’s actually not referring to an existing article on the Perl Power Tools. It’s just meant to tell “the reader”, hey, there are these nice Perl Power Tools out there, and they also get abbreviated as PPT. Well, yes, I could create a wikipedia…
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No Starch Press book: Perl One-Liners
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593275204.do: Perl One-Liners showcases 130 short and compelling lines of code that do all sorts of handy, geeky things. … Not too bad.
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CPAN modules for generating passwords (remember “pwgen”!)
I started digging a little into this, when I faced the challenge to provide a customer with a password generator available on his platform. I myself had used Theodore Ts’o’s pwgen for years, so that was my search keyword. Neil Bowers on CPAN modules for generating passwords [link] (looks like THE CONTEMPORARY REPORT on the topic)…
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Log::Log4perl : appending to a logfile from several processes at the same time
Log::Log4perl::FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions on Log::Log4perl – metacpan.org a forum article dealing with group privileges on the semaphore files [link] If you don’t do it like this, you will end up in a corrupted logfile.
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TAP::Harness – Run test scripts with statistics – metacpan.org
TAP::Harness – Run test scripts with statistics – metacpan.org
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Log::Log4perl – Log4j implementation for Perl – metacpan.org
log4perl.com Log::Log4perl – Log4j implementation for Perl – metacpan.org Log::Log4perl::Config – Log4perl configuration file syntax – metacpan.org – everything about the configuration file syntax, includes a “cookbook” the initial article on Log::Log4perl at perl.com [link], and the errata [link] Michael Schilli at github and esp. his Log4perl [link] its nice logo [link at cafepress.com, link at cafepress.de]…
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Test::Builder – Backend for building test libraries – metacpan.org
https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Builder https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Simple https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol – TAP Test::Simple and Test::More have proven to be popular testing modules, but they’re not always flexible enough. Test::Builder provides a building block upon which to write your own test libraries which can work together.
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a Perl module on CPAN for dealing with ZIP archives: IO::Compress::Zip
IO::Compress::Zip – Write zip files/buffers – metacpan.org I found code, that makes use of this module. The 1st problem, I had to deal with: the file to be written into the ZIP archive and the ZIP archive both get named using absolute pathnames. That’s alright for the ZIP archive, but you usually don’t like archive…
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perl CPAN: Cvs – object oriented interface to the CVS command
Cvs – Object oriented interface to the CVS command – metacpan.org It also has a nice module_list method. I would love to know, how to that on the command line outside this module.