Ars Technica

Using backtick operator or cgi-bin to execute Perl SSH script causing high CPU load?

So here's the situation. We've got Apache 2 running on FreeBSD. We need to run a script on one of the other machines, so we wrote a little perl script that uses Net::SSH to login and run it, and then ...
Linux Journal

Synchronizing FTP Files with Perl

Originally, this article was stored on a minimalistic web site. I, along with the thousands of users who use that site, use FTP to maintain the content. This used to mean that after making changes to ...
Linux Journal

An Introduction to Application Development with Catalyst and Perl

Catalyst is the latest in the evolution of open-source Web development frameworks. Written in modern Perl and inspired by many of the projects that came before it, including Ruby on Rails, Catalyst is ...
Fast Company

The Fall Of Perl, The Web’s Most Promising Language

I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet. But compared to its ...
Ars Technica

Perl: Can I force a variable to be string?

Hey,<BR><BR>I've got a user that is attempting to use one of our webservices. They are connecting using Perl, which to my understanding is not a strongly typed language. <BR><BR>One of the parameters ...