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The Perl Journal
Volumes 1–6 (1996–2002)
▲ THE PERL JOURNAL ARCHIVE. | Issues 1–25 (1996–2002). The font is Walbaum Bold Italic.
Code tarballs available for issues 1–21.
I reformatted the CD-ROM contents. Some things may still be a little wonky — oh, why hello there <FONT> tag. Syntax highlighting is iffy. Please report any glaring issues.
The Perl Journal
#1
Spring 1996
vol 1
num 1
Who we are, and what we'll be doing.
An introduction to creating X graphics.
Creating and filtering e-mail from your programs.
An introduction to CGI programming.
Manipulating links and headers, and converting HTML to plaintext.
A game-theoretical programming contest.
The Perl Journal
#2
Summer 1996
vol 1
num 2
The building blocks of life...and how Perl helped organize them.
An extension for sending and receiving programs over the Internet. description.
The Mouse Odometer X timer events, widgets, menus, and the Color Editor.
Saving the state of Web connections with CGI.pm.
The Macintosh port.
Treachery and cooperation - but mostly treachery.
The Perl Journal
#3
Autumn 1996
vol 1
num 3
Hiding information in text.
Perl as the activist's friend.
Maintaining state across web connections.
Sending and receiving programs over the Internet.
Recent additions to the CPAN.
X timer events, widgets, menus, and the color editor.
Net::FTP speaks the File Transfer Protocol for you.
print scalar reverse "...era srenniw eht dnA"
The Perl Journal
#4
Winter 1996
vol 1
num 4
A guarded introduction to OOP.
The generation and use of random numbers.
Are you a a wizard, a guru, or merely a user?
(Thank you for not spamming.)
Recent additions to the CPAN.
How to write your own browsers, robots, and more.
How to lay out widgets.
A Lovecraftian homage to the new Camel book.
The Perl Journal
#5
Spring 1997
vol 2
num 1
The building blocks of programs.
Compact and speedy numeric programming.
What's new in the Perl community.
Create travesties of web pages with The Mangler.
A graphical Perl/Tk utility for monitoring disk usage.
Perl, pork bellies, and the Donchian Channel.
The Perl Journal
#6
Summer 1997
vol 2
num 2
Build your own sundials, accurate to the minute.
TPJ's first ever tutorial teaches you the intricacies of sorting.
NPH scripts and creating Web robots with LWP.
How to load parts of Perl modules on demand.
What's new in the Perl community.
Balloons, file selectors, pulldown and popup menus...
I suppose you thought this was obfuscated?
The Perl Journal
#7
Fall 1997
vol 2
num 3
&& and || or and and or, and chomp() and LABELs.
Perl for Windows.
A new construct that can manipulate endless data streams.
Associating actions with events.
What's new in the Perl community.
A collection of tips for the paranoid programmer.
Of salt and sysread().
Amassing a personalized newspaper from the web.
How to prepare your modules for maximum portability.
A frightening display of cryptic virtuosity.
The Perl Journal
#8
Winter 1997
vol 2
num 4
Why 21.09 doesn't always equal 21.09.
Throw random input at your servers and scripts.
A glue interface linking Perl and Java.
Before Unicode, before ASCII, there was EBCDIC.
Using AppleEvents from Perl.
What's new in the Perl Community.
Generate Perl wrappers around C/C++ code - automatically.
How Net::Telnet lets your programs talk to other computers.
An extremely efficient tree data structure.
Common sysadmin tasks, automated with Perl.
A highly distributed computing effort to find new primes.
Not for the timid.
The Perl Journal
#9
Spring 1998
vol 3
num 1
CGI too slow? Compiled C too slow? Try mod_perl.
A Perl module that imitates a psychiatrist.
Context, prototypes, and subroutine calls.
Painting a canvas.
What's new in the Perl Community.
Four techniques for handling errors in CGI scripts gracefully.
Build your own regular expression engine.
The trouble with Makefiles.
The Perl Journal
#10
Summer 1998
vol 3
num 2
The essentials of data structures.
IRC Robots And The People Who Love Them.
The Next Big Perl.
Using an HTML filter to read a foreign language.
The Getopt::Long module and friends.
What to do when your CGI scripts need superuser powers.
What's new in the Perl community.
Controlling Excel, Notes, and Access with Win32::OLE.
Rendering three-dimensional images.
Parallel execution paths in Perl.
Modules to help you bulletproof your code.
The Perl Journal
#11
Fall 1998
vol 3
num 3
A beginner's look at shrinking Perl code.
Your output doesn't always appear when you think it does.
Using Perl to interpret the Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
Ever wanted to encrypt your Perl programs?
Eliminate ads from your web pages with a proxy.
How readable is your code?
What's new in the Perl community.
Two new products for gluing Win32 COM objects.
Measuring the speed of Perl programs.
Making certain brute force searches a little more tractable.
Using Apache::Registry, Apache::Sandwich, Embperl, and DBI.
Probability theory and deadly diseases.
Accessing directories via the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
perl -e '$# = print "1 + 1 = "; print 2'
The Perl Journal
#12
Winter 1998
vol 3
num 4
Perl's two schemes for naming variables.
Not all conventional Perl wisdom is wise.
Navigation bar envy, sated with Apache and Perl.
The trials and tribulations of a Unix user on Windows.
Kevin Lenzo
What's new in the Perl community.
How to squeeze your data into the smallest possible space.
Generating your own parsers in Perl.
For ten points, what magazine are you reading now?
The Perl Journal
#13
Spring 1999
vol 4
num 1
What's new in the Perl community.
Grabbing web page contents without a browser.
The CPAN now stores scripts as well as modules.
A free database system tailored for the web.
The successor to HTML.
Speeding up Perl functions.
Adapting programs for languages other than English.
How to compile and install your own Perl from the source code.
A maximally portable game engine, with a few back doors.
How a little language for generating music was created.
Most people build objects out of hashes. Here's why you shouldn't.
Let your programs talk to any serial device.
Speed matters. How fast can your program play a simple card game?
The Perl Journal
#14
Summer 1999
vol 4
num 2
What's new in the Perl community.
Truth and falsehood aren't black and white.
How LWP can cope with firewalls.
Some rare occasions when my won't do.
Using Gnuplot to graph web logs
Using MIME to send images, audio, and more.
A Perl book for experienced programmers.
Creating menubars in Perl/Tk 4 and Perl/Tk 8.
Creating plug-ins for a free alternative to Adobe's Photoshop.
An introductory text for graphics programming with Perl/Tk.
How a problem was solved with a homebrew data structure.
Speeding up your database connections.
Sending mail from Perl in a portable way.
Grappling with "funny" letters? Bi-level sorting can help.
The fastest card players from last issue's contest.
Confuse us and win a prize.
The Perl Journal
#15
Fall 1999
vol 4
num 3
MIDI::Simple, and a little hate mail.
What's new in the Perl community.
There's more to it than what you learned in fourth grade.
How a 14 kilobyte regex helps the visually challenged.
Turn your program into a server.
Evolving algebraic expressions.
Make your unthreaded modules palatable to threaded Perl.
Free software that finds bugs in your programs.
Why the Denver Broncos will win the Superbowl again.
Concealing attributes from prying programmers.
Long-lived Perl programs on Windows NT.
Use +, x, and other operators on your objects.
Using HTML::, LWP::, and HTTP:: modules to traverse links.
Using Microsoft Access and DBI with a web application.
A free utility for updating documents.
The Perl Journal
#16
Winter 1999
vol 4
num 4
Microsoft vs. ActiveState, and precedence.
What's new in the Perl community.
"I chanced upon a lovely toad..."
Humanizing error messages with Coy.pm.
Serving MP3s with Apache.
How you can help change Perl. .
Providing capsule descriptions of web pages.
Moving data between file trees.
Using Perl as a make-replacement.
Creating Java class files with Perl.
Remotely updating Internet machine names.
The Perl Journal
#17
Spring 2000
vol 5
num 1
The Perl Journal
#18
Summer 2000
vol 5
num 2
The Perl Journal
#19
Fall 2000
vol 5
num 3
The Perl Journal
#20
Winter 2000
vol 5
num 4
The Perl Journal
#21
Fall 2001
vol 5
num 5
The Perl Journal
#22
Winter 2001
vol 5
num 6
The Perl Journal
#23
Spring 2002
vol 6
num 1
The Perl Journal
#24
Summer 2002
vol 6
num 2
The Perl Journal
#25
Fall 2002
vol 6
num 3
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