Friday, April 27 2001

developerWorks : Zope for the Perl/CGI programmers

Zope has so much going for it that any compare-and-contrast that spends time fretting about the path for /usr/bin/perl changing seems more than a bit disingenuous. Likewise, how many Perl-weenies do you know who use CGI.pm *and* send content-headers by hand? Once upon a time, I counted myself among those who frowned on the CGI.pm (X)HTML methods, but even I used the $cgi->header, $cgi->start_html and $cgi->end_htmlwidgets. Sad really, because Zope has so many cool and fruity features and articles like this just do it a dis-service. via zope newbies

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Brian Ingerson : Data::Denter.pm

"The main problem with Data::Dumper (one of my all-time favorite modules) is that you have to use eval() to deserialize the data you've dumped. This is great if you can trust the data you're evaling, but horrible if you can't. A good alternative is Storable.pm. It can safely thaw your frozen data. But if you want to read/edit the frozen data, your out of luck, because Storable uses a binary format. Even Data::Dumper's output can be a little cumbersome for larger data objects. ... Data::Denter is yet another Perl data serializer/deserializer. It formats nested data structures in an indented fashion. It is optimized for human readability/editability, safe deserialization, and (eventually) speed."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is clamber

| source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clambered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clambering}.] [OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. {Clamp}, {Climb}.] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. --Tennyson. | source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, n. The act of clambering. --T. Moore. | source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. t. To ascend by climbing with difficulty. Clambering the walls to eye him. --Shak. | source : wn | clamber n : an awkward climb; "reaching the crest was a real clamber" v : climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: {scramble}, {shin}, {shinny}, {skin}, {struggle}, {sputter}]

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