The Perl Advent Calendar For 2003

Andy Lester writes "CPAN is a treasure trove of submitted code from across the Perl community, and is one of the reasons for Perl's great popularity. There are hundreds of active contributors, and over 2500 modules in the module list. With so many modules, it can be daunting for a Perl beginner to know what's worth noting. Plus, since so many modules are built on other modules, it's important for module authors to know which modules are best-of-breed. One source for direction is Mark Fowler's Perl Advent Calendar. Each day in the month of December, Mark reveals a new module in his calendar, including an overview and mini-tutorial in its use."

Comments

CPAN is a nightmare

[P145M4]

I use debian and want to apt-get everything
I hate it to use CPAN and break everyhting ...

Re:CPAN is a nightmare

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't there anything like BSDPAN for FreeBSD? I just discovered that and think it's a pretty cool idea.. whenever you install something with CPAN, it automagically hooks into the package system and creates a package for what you just installed.

I had not idea what it was for years, it didn't seem to be documented anywhere, I finally read something about it and tried it out after avoiding CPAN entirely.

I hope other Free software distros like Gentoo Linux come up with something equivalent....

Re:CPAN is a nightmare

[fwoggey]

# apt-get install dh-make-perl
# dh-make-perl --build --cpan Some::Module
# dpkg -i libsome-module-perl*.deb

But...

[aanand]

...is it Fair Trade?

Mirror + any other questions?

[twoshortplanks]

Hello again Slashdot, welcome back to my server.

Hmm, about nine comments. Good to see my calendar is well loved ;-)

The original poster neglected to mention there's a mirror at http://mirror.perladvent.org incase my server falls over for any reason. Not that it does that a lot, but last year the part London where my server's located had a nasty power cut on the 4th, so I guess anything's possible.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask them, but since it's half one in the morning atm, answers will have to wait until I've had some kip

Re:Mirror + any other questions?

[Anonymous Coward]

No questions, just a big thanks. :-) I hadn't heard of the modules mentioned so far, though it's good to promote their presence; there's way to much insecure web development going on because of lack of validation, XSS attacks, etc.

Great stuff for web developers

[sbszine]

From the two days that we I get at so far, the calendar looks pretty useful. For those who haven't bothered to RTFA, the first two days cover validating user input without referring to a copy of Mastering Regular Expressions. I can see myself using something from this calendar in the new year, if I survive the family xmas lunch with my sanity intact.

Be naughty

[it0]

and look up the 3rd day

Obligatory Gentoo plug

[metamatic]

If you used Gentoo, you could use Portage to download and install from CPAN. Nyaah nyaah nyaah.

Cool!

[Anonymous Coward]

An advent calendar with cooly cool chocolate perl camels instead of fat santa's head and other crap! I gotta get me one of those!

Edutainment

[fatcat1111]

Maybe it's because I stumbled across the calendar when I was first learning Perl several years ago, but I've always had a soft spot for this. Not a day goes by in December where I don't learn something truly useful.