You can read Effective Perl Programming in the Safari Books Online mobile site, and it looks pretty nice. One of the advantages of Safari Books Online is that you don’t have to buy individual books. You have access to all of the books for a subscription fee. It’s even better if you get your company [...]
[This is another bonus, mid-week item since it's so short and probably mostly useless as a tweak to what you already do.] Perl 5.14 changes srand to return the seed that it used to start the pseudorandom number generator that gives you numbers through rand. There are plenty of interwebs that will explain the difference [...]
Amazon.com gives out for free the first chapter of the Kindle version of Effective Perl Programming. The “first chapter” includes the front matter and up to half way through Item 6 in “The Basics of Perl”. There’s a Kindle application for most devices, including Android (anyone want to send an Android screenshot to go with [...]
[This is a mid-week bonus Item since it's so short] Prior to Perl 5.10, you had to be a bit careful checking a Perl variable before you set a default value. An uninitialized value and a defined but false value both acted the same in the logical || short-circuit operator. The Perl idiom to set [...]
We have added support for OpenID to this site so that our commenters don’t have to manage yet another password. If you are creating a new account, you can create it with an OpenID from the start on the registration page. If you have an existing account and would like to link it to an [...]
We’ve been getting quite a few automated user registrations here at “The Effective Perler”, some of which try to make spammy comments on old posts. In order to combat that, we’ve added a CAPTCHA that will show up when new users register. It shouldn’t show up for any existing users who are posting comments, so [...]
We’re looking for some reader feedback. You can comment here, send us mail, reply on Twitter, skywrite your message in Chicago (please send us a link to that video in case we miss it), or come up to us at a conference. We’re thinking about writing an extra, bonus chapter of Effective Perl Programming for [...]
I just found out that Effective Perl Programming is available in digital formats through eBooks.com. They have a PDF version and an ePub version, each for $US31.99, which, sadly, is more than the hard-copy price of $US26.39 on Amazon.com and the Kindle price of $US17.59. They specifically list that these formats target Adobe Digital Editions, [...]
Here are some images from the Kindle version (on an iPad) of Effective Perl Programming. It doesn’t look bad considering how bad most other non-novels look on Kindle, and its readable. These are two non-consecutive pages: The paragraphs are nicely separated and it’s easier for you to see what is code and what isn’t. The [...]
Effective Perl Programming is now available in a Kindle edition: I bought it, not being a big fan of Kindle, and was surprised that it doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would on the Kindle app on the iPad (it looks similar on the iPhone and Kindle for Mac): There are some oddities, [...]
