• Home
• dp
• dp’s Social Graph
• RSS

Perl module of the day

Yazan: dp | 13 September 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Computers, Perl

Next up in the Perl Module of the Day series is Getopt::Long::Descriptive. It gives you the ability to have options passed to your programs like Getopt::Long, but allows you to also set up some descriptive text to be displayed when you need it, formatted in a nice, consistent way. Use is pretty straight-forward. Call it [...]

Perl Module of the Day

Yazan: dp | 19 April 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Perl

I’m going to start a new series on my blog, called Perl Module of the Day. It won’t have posts every day, but any day that I find an interesting perl module, that I think might help others, I’ll post it here. Todays module isTime::Duration. It simply takes a number of seconds, and converts it [...]

Speeding up your perl scripts with Parallel::Iterator

Yazan: dp | 28 January 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Computers, Software

Image by hongiiv via Flickr Parallel::Iterator is a Perl module that can make your scripts much faster if you perform long-running tasks within a loop. It does this by managing a forking system in the background, allowing your long-running tasks to execute in parallel, instead of one at a time. Your existing code probably looks [...]