[oak perl] Oakland Digest, Vol 27, Issue 17

[Joshua Wait]

Thanks for pointing out the interesting article. 

Does anyone have experience with Haskell or functional
programming?

The author mentions Haskell in his article and I've
read little tidbits about it here and there. 

--JOSHUA

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> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:01:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joshua Wait <joshnjillwait at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [oak perl] Some PHP Experiences
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> I read an interesting article a while back about the
> relationship between Perl and PHP. The author starts
> of with a code listing where it could either be Perl
> or PHP. The author claims that PHP started off as a
> set of Perl scripts. O'Reilly's "Programming PHP"
> doesn't mention this point and instead points to its
> origin as being written in C. You can find a copy of
> the article here:
> 
>
http://www.theperlreview.com/Issues/The_Perl_Review_0_7.pdf
> 
> I've mostly worked with PHP when using open source
> utilities to accomplish some goal. I don't write PHP
> from scratch except when I need to modify existing
> PHP
> application.
> 
> In terms of coding style, it seems to me that a lot
> of
> people who write PHP prefer their web apps to
> function
> with the code embedded in their HTML. That doesn't
> mean that plenty of people don't do it the other way
> around, but I find a lot PHP written by people more
> comfortable with designing a page and then embedding
> code.
> 
> I use these PHP utilities on a regular basis (which
> happen to not follow the style I mention above):
> 
> 1. phpMyAdmin
> This tool allows a user to manage MySQL databases,
> tables, and data. It has a high degree of control in
> the GUI tools allowing a user to create and
> manipulate
> data without having to write SQL. I love to use the
> SQL query function to test my queries against an
> existing set of tables before hardwiring the query
> into an Perl app. Any one who is managing MySQL
> database can benefit from this cool, easy to use
> utility.
> 
> http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
> 
> 2. phpicalendar
> I set up phpicalendar at work so that staff members
> could coordinate our schedules. We have an OS X
> machine at a static IP with WebDAV enabled. Staff
> members can publish their .ics formatted calendars
> to
> the calendar directory. Staff members can either
> subscribe to the calendar within their application
> or
> they can view the calendar in browser by using
> phpicalendar.
> 
> The Mozilla foundation has a Linux and Windows
> version
> of Sunbird available which can publish calendars to
> the .ics format. Mac OS X users can use Apple's free
> iCal to publish their calendars.
> 
>
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird_download.html
> 
> 3. phpwiki
> I know that there are Perl options for doing a wiki,
> but I prefer the nearly brain dead easiness of
> phpwiki. I've used it in a couple of situations to
> provide a quick, easy content management system for
> clients, my office and myself.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/
> 
> There are other php applications that I have checked
> out, but don't currently use:
> 
> 1. dotproject
> We thought about using dotproject at our office to
> manage various projects. While it had some common
> features ready-made, it was going to be more of an
> obstacle to use it than to develop our own system.
> Currently, we have our own Perl based project
> management system/
> 
> http://www.dotproject.net/
> 
> 2. SugarSuite
> We considered using SugarSuite as a Customer
> Relationship Management (CRM) tool. This php app
> exists on a number of different levels from a paid
> enterprise version to an opensource version. We were
> already deeply into our own project management
> system
> and while we learned some things from their approach
> ours is radically different.
> 
> http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/
> 
> I won't be able to make it to the meeting, but I
> hope
> these tidbits help.
> 
> --JOSHUA
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> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:03:00 -0700
> From: George Woolley <george at metaart.org>
> Subject: [oak perl] "Perl6 Polyglot"
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> Link:
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/7928
> 
> An interesting short article.
> 
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