Tag: PERL

If you've been anywhere except under a rock for the last 18 months or so, you're probably sick to death of the phrase "Web 2.0," and for many people, Web 2.0 has become almost synonymous with Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails, though, has some major drawbacks for the average web designer. Ruby, while gaining steam, is still not as popular as more established programming languages. There aren't as many ...

XAMPP is an easy to install web server distribution containing Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. It claims to be a snap to use and install. After I got through clicking like 20 times to find the actual file download link on the XAMPP site (hosted at sourceforge), which irritated me a bit, the process got a bit better. You can download three different versions of the file, the installer (32MB), the zip ...

O'Reilly Radar reports that Ruby programming book sales outpace Perl books. This is somewhat surprising, but not unexpected. Ruby is quickly becoming a popular language. Surpassing Perl is a clue that Ruby is gaining significant ground on its way to stardom. While Ruby is seen as the primadonna of web coding by many, it does hold real value. Ruby offers a lot of the things developers have needed ...

gotAPI is a cool Ajaxy web app that gives you quick access to reference materials for a variety of web technologies. On the top there's a list of languages including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Java, Perl, and six others, and when you click on one of them the list of HTML tags, JavaScript objects, PHP functions, etc. pops up. There's a search box at the top for finding items quickly, and clicking ...