Perl Developer's Journal

Scripting used to be a quick fix or a spare-time hobby; today it's become a must-have for even the Java-based developer's toolkit. Get perspective on what's next for dynamic languages, from leading lights in JavaScript, Rhino, Perl, IronRuby, Python, and Tcl. ... (more)

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages were headed. In this follow-up discussion, she asks these dynamic language luminarie... (more)

In Light Engineering (LED), we’re known to be multilingual – depending on the project, we’ve been known to speak Perl, Python, Java, C++, Javascript and PHP, to name a few. Our weapon of choice is still Ruby on Rails, the popular MVC framework. Out belief is that Rails makes cert... (more)

Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today two important community events scheduled for Ottawa, Canada. The next Open Source Boot Camp (OSBootCamp) will focus on Interpreted Programming Languages and wi... (more)

SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- (Marketwire) -- 08/13/08 -- ITtoolbox, the online community where professionals share IT knowledge and best practices, announced today that UNIX Developer Andrew Johnson will present Helios, a new framework for developing asynchronous distributed job processing ... (more)

In the news release, U.S. Conference of Mayors President Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Lead Mayor's 08 Action Forum on Infrastructure, issued 11-Aug-2008 by U.S. Conference of Mayors over PR Newswire, we are advised by the organization that in the li... (more)

I had a post in my queue relating JavaScript 2 to Perl 6. They are both in very rough spots indeed, yet JavaScript 2 has a couple of features that have me a lot more worried than I am about Perl 6: ... (more)

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 08/06/08 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source ins... (more)

"JavaScript, with its death grip on the Interwebs and every AJAX developer's language of only choice, is getting hot. With roll-overs, pop-ups, and menus either solved or relegated to CSS behaviors, XMLHttpRequests have made JavaScript once again a language of innovation. This ar... (more)

Sybase iAnywhere today announced that SQL Anywhere® version 11 is now available to the marketplace. With more than 10 million deployed seats, SQL Anywhere has established its reputation as an enterprise-caliber database and synchronization solution designed to be widely deployed ... (more)

Sybase iAnywhere today announced its new initiative to deliver SQL Anywhere®, its industry-leading data management system and powerful synchronization solution, for the web developer community. In addition to a number of web development features found in SQL Anywhere Version 11, ... (more)

The LAMP application stack has long been a mainstay of the open source community and, indeed, most of the Internet. Now Sun Microsystems has released its enterprise take on the stack. Sun’s AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP/PERL) web stack will run on Solaris and Linux initially and other ... (more)

'Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user,' said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil, a new search offering that claims to have indexed 120 billion Web... (more)

Chris Samuel posted this job opportunity for a job with VPAC in Australia. If you know anyone that may be interested in the job, please pass this announcement along. It seems like people reading here would have a good probability of knowing someone that may be interested and who a... (more)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is now running the company’s Windows, Windows Live and Internet properties after Kevin Johnson, the president of the company’s Platforms and Services Division (PSD) and a key player in the failed Microsoft-Yahoo talks, bolted to Jupiter Net... (more)

WSO2, the open source SOA company, will demonstrate extended service-oriented architecture (SOA) interoperability with the Microsoft .NET Framework at the OSCON 2008 Open Source Convention being held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. Featured will be a StockTrader ... (more)

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA), today announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris(TM) and Linux operating systems. The Web Stack software includes the open source, stan... (more)

SAN CARLOS, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/22/08 -- Mark Logic® Corporation, provider of the industry's leading XML content platform, today announced that MarkMail, a free service for searching mailing list archives available at http://markmail.org/, has added group messages from the ... (more)

Marktplaats.nl, the largest E-commerce platform in The Netherlands, and part of eBay since 2004, is growing its business on Sun Microsystems' MySQL Enterprise(TM) Unlimited database subscription offering. To enable their fast growth, protect site uptime, and contain IT expenses, ... (more)

A CSS Inc., empresa líder em equipamentos e gerenciamento de infra-estruturas remotas, lançou hoje a última versão da sua gama de soluções de ampla implantação, ComView IPw. Como uma das ferramentas de gerenciamento de rede mais inovadoras até hoje, a ComView IPw fornece uma op... (more)