TechRepublic Resources
- Intro to perl on Windows
- Although Perl may have been born and raised in the Unix universe, the world's favorite practical extraction and reporting language has had, and has had for some time, an established home on Windows. Led by such companies as ActiveState, Perl has grown steadily since mid 1995, adding both standard Perl...
- Tags: Perl, eXtropia, Microsoft Windows, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- White papers
- perl Keeps Golf Dream Alive
- Charles Jones, LLC is a public records search company that cut it's teeth on computers made by a company known as GE. When the Senior Manager of Systems Development at Charles Jones, LLC realized that his company's monthly sales reporting system threatened to curtail his dream of golfing on Friday...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- With perl, SupportWizard Avoided the Usual Compromises
- Few years ago, Integral Solutions Corporation (ISC) in Redwood City, California, set out to tackle what their engineers admit was a rather bold plan. The company wanted to develop a Web-based customer support solution with high-end functionality comparable to the best available - and sell it at one-fifth the price....
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Help Desk, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Call Centers, Development Tools, It Operations, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- perl Tackles HIPAA Compliancy at SUNY Upstate Medical University
- With Federal Mandated HIPAA compliancy, there have been many hurdles which the SUNY Upstate Medical University needed to cross to become compliant, including migrating their existing Practice Management system. With exception to only a few Insurance Carriers, most of them were receiving the HIPAA-compliant ANSI X12 837 claim format. Extensive...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Scripting Languages, Regulations, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- Putting Information to Work With perl
- IX Development Laboratories Inc., a Santa Rosa, California company, specializes in Web sites it calls Information Factories, or sites that involve a high degree of interaction with users. On such sites, people provide information that is manipulated to produce different information of value to other people; and these powerful, complex...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Intellix, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Storage, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware
- Book chapters
- Siemens Business Services Chooses perl for Its Landmark Application
- With more than 95,000 applications for title transfer per year, Siemens' U.K. government customer, the Registers Of Scotland Executive Agency (ROS), is a busy organization. By their very nature, databases are often indispensable; but rarely do they carry the tradition, symbolism, and historical importance equal to the Registers of Scotland....
- Tags: Perl, Siemens AG, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Storage, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware
- Book chapters
- perl Provides Document Management and Control for CCRA
- The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA - the Federal tax collection agency) has a collection of approximate 10,000 forms, guides and other publications that require management and control. Earlier, these forms were managed using a proprietary database software that was costly to maintain and difficult to extend. As well,...
- Tags: Business Requirement, Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Book chapters
- Learning to Count on perl at the Census Bureau
- Like many government agencies, the U.S. Census Bureau leaves the selection of programming tools up to their techies, and more than a few in the back rooms of bureaucracy cut their teeth on Perl and a whole line of open source solutions. The Senior Internet Technology Architect who oversees system...
- Tags: Perl, Bureau, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- Managing Student Affairs With perl at the University of Papua New Guinea
- In 1999, the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) restructured its academic year from two semesters per year to three trimesters, with a week between each term. The change in the academic calendar led the School of Natural and Physical Sciences (SNPS) to re-evaluate the data entry process for student...
- Tags: Perl, Data Entry, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- Easy Healthcare Billing With perl
- Billing applications usually contain complex rules that transform raw activity into billable activity. This is especially true in healthcare where fixed prices are applied for repeated medical services. At the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, there are many applications that send billing data based on the medical and technical activities,...
- Tags: Perl, Billing, Health Care
- Book chapters
- perl Is Precious to Venezuelan ISP
- As part of his job at the largest ISP in the country, a Systems Manager at Cantv.net is in charge of all the aspects of the logical service provisioning for ADSL customers. Their network is not simple. Once the network was up and running, lots of customers were brought in...
- Tags: Perl, Network, O'Reilly Media Inc., Service Provisioning, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Strategy, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Networking, Internet, Sales, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- perl Dev Kit 5.3 For Windows
- The Perl Dev Kit provides essential tools for Perl programmers, making it easy to build and deploy applications. Turn your Perl programs into ready-to-run executables for HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Painlessly debug Perl scripts. Visually manage your local Perl installation. Create .NET and ActiveX components, Windows services and system...
- Tags: Perl, Microsoft Windows, Perl Dev Kit, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Software downloads
- perl Excels at Quick Add-Ons to Existing Applications
- One of Perl's most successful aspects is its ability to handle small, urgent tasks that must mesh with an existing structure. The manager for the Enterprise Network Applications Documentation and Quality Assurance department faced with just such a task - creating a customer response form for ENA's Web site. The...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Excel, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- perl Express 2.1
- Perl Express is a unique and powerful integrated development environment (IDE) under Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003, including all necessary tools for writing and debugging perl programs. Perl Express is intended both for the experienced and professional Perl developers and for the beginners. Perl Express is easy to start using and easy to...
- Tags: Perl, Perl Express, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Software downloads
- perl Helps Heal Swiss Hospital's Database Migration Pain
- After using an Ingres ARUNA database for ten years, the pathology laboratory at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland decided it was time to replace their software with a more open Oracle DIAMIC package. No easy task for a facility which handles over 50,000 lab samples per year and is...
- Tags: Perl, Hospital, O'Reilly Media Inc., Migration, Ingres, Databases, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Storage, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware
- Book chapters
- perl Success Story: TERMIUMplus
- TERMIUMplus is a trilingual application that allows translators and terminologists to search a collection of 1.5 million entries in English, French and Spanish. The system is freely available to any employee of the Canadian Federal government as well as by subscription to individuals and organizations outside. Because the server experiences...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., TERMIUMplus, Government, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Vertical Industries, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Book chapters
- perl Enters the Oxford English Dictionary
- Perl figures heavily in the production of a historic institution - the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, the publishing arm of the University of Oxford, which publishes the dictionary, has used Perl for a number of years. Their use of Perl has ranged from preparing texts for typesetting to...
- Tags: Perl, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- Bottom-Up Application Programming With perl
- A major UK bank wanted a Perl guru, but would settle for someone 'Who knew a bit about everything'. They wanted a fully configurable shopping-basket ordering system. While Perl may not have seemed the obvious choice for such a system, the existing system was already using it, and they wanted...
- Tags: Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Programming, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- NBCi Accesses and Maintains Complex Databases With perl
- Wrangling the enormous amount of information stored in NBCi's databases is easy with Perl. Perl was already an important component in the company's operations when the NBCi site was formed by merging Xoom.com, Snap.com, and the online division of NBC. When the company started out with Xoom.com, Perl was heavily...
- Tags: Database, Perl, NBCi, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- perl Editor 2.0 Professional
- SannySoft Perl Editor is a fully integrated developer environment. It has various number of features which makes writing, editing and debugging Perl scripts easier. SannySoft Perl Editor is simple, but at the same time it is very great tool. SannySoft Perl Editor will save much of developer’s time shorting developing...
- Tags: Perl, SannySoft Perl Editor, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows 95, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Software Development
- Software downloads
