Software Development

Damian Conway is an author of Object Oriented Perl resently published on Perl.com an very interesting article – Ten Essential Development Practices. There are 10 useful and helpful recomendations how to produce a good-looking Perl code. Damian Conway is a great man in Perl community. So, you can trast him and to consider his opinion. Those tips came from his new book which was published […]

One month ago I started to customize SugarCRM for our company. This is a very good, hight quality software. But it ‘s based on PHP but I’ve developed on Perl during last four years. I’m not going to say “PHP is shit, Perl forever!”. I’d like just to share my impression of PHP as Perl developer. And sometimes I’m a little bit confused about PHP. […]

Recently I’ve needed to transfer data from application based on DBF files to the MYSQL database. I’ve created a simple Per script to do it. So, I hope it’ll be useful for somebody to get it and modify if needed. To run script you need to have on your computer installed Perl module XBase and DBI. dbf2rdbm.pl

When it needs to create various choises according to someone variable it’s reasonable to build a shitch block: sub test { my $var = shift; SWITCH: for($var) { /^1$/ && do { do something for case 1 … ; last SWITCH;}; /^2$/ && do { do something for case 2 … ; last SWITCH;}; /^3$/ && do { do something for case 3 … ; […]

Recently I’ve spent a half of working day to find what was happened with uploading of files in our web server. We use Embperl to build dynamic web pages and I’d like to say many thanks to Gerald Richter who is an author of Embperl. My mistake was I didn’t upgrade Embperl till latest version or at least I had to read change logs of […]

The first version of VideoGuide was released about two months ago. Since that time I didn’t have enough time to improve it. I hope that VideoGuide can be useful for somebody. That’s why I’m planning to do a next release of VideoGuide at the end of February (hope it will be done). To improve VideoGuide first I’ve fixed many bugs which I’ve discovered there (Unfortunately […]

I’ve created a simple Perl script which retrieve a top of 250 IMDB movies which voted by IMDB users. That top is an array each element of which is hash included movie title, production year, user’s rating, number of votes and IMDB movie code. The source of that script is here. Also, I’ve added IMDB Top ten on the cinema page. All suggestions will be […]

I’ve created a RSS channel for Limassol theatres schedule. I hope it will make that service more useful for you 🙂