The Perl Journal (Vol 4. No. 2)

The Perl Journal (Vol 4. No. 2)

Perl News
What's new in the Perl community.
Nandor, Chris
p. 6

What is Thruth?
Truth and falsehood aren't black and white.
Torkington, Nathan
p. 10

Downloading Web Pages Trough a Prozy Server
How LWP can cope whith firewalls.
Svirskas, rob
p. 14

Seven Useful Uses of local
Some rare occasions when my won't do.
Dominus, Mark-Jason
p. 16

On-the-Fly Web Plots Made Easy
Using Gnuplot to graph web logs
Stein, Lincoln D.
p. 26

E-mail with Attachments
Using MIME to send images, audio, and more.
Sugalski, Dan
p. 29

Perl/Tk Menus: Past, Present and Future
Creating menubars in Perl/Tk 4 and Perl/Tk 8.
Lidie, Steve
p. 36

Manipulating Images with Perl and the GIMP
Creating plug-ins for a free alternative to Adobe's Photoshop
Sherman, Aaron
p. 42

Review of Learning Perl/Tk
An introductory text for graphics programming with Perl/Tk
p. 51

Building a Better hash
How a problem was solved with a homebrew data structure
Schmidt, Dan
p. 53

Using Databases with DBI: What Not To Do
Speeding up your database connections.
Akin, Thomas
p. 60

Send mail without sendmail
Sending mail from perl in a portable way
Suglaski, Dan
p. 63

Perl heresies: No,That's Wrong!
Somme common beginners mistakes.
Pinyam, Jeff
p. 68

International Sorting with sort
Grappling with "funny" letters? Bi-level sorting can help
Burke, Sean M.
p. 70

The Solitaire Sorting with sort
The Faster card players from last issue's contest
Nicol, David
p. 76

The fourth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest
Confuse us and win a prize
Gallo, Felix
p. 78

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