Rohan Almeida’s Blog
Perl Developer. Linux Advocacy. Practicing Guitarist.

In this post I’ll go over a simple example on how to use jQuery with AJAX and JSON with your Perl web applications. I’ve used a plain-old CGI script along with Template Toolkit for this. However, you can very well use this under any web application framework. The main point is to get your concepts […]

In spite of programming in Perl for the past eight years, I’m not sure how I missed this book.
Extreme Programming in Perl is a wonderful book which teaches you about XP with a focus on Perl. I came upon this website during some Google searches I ran for a Perl programming problem I was facing. […]

Yeah, I know it sounds silly. I’ve now read the Rose::DB::Object tutorial and the Moose manual several times and can’t wait to get started on my current and future projects using these technologies.
I find Rose::DB::Object to be a refreshing change over all the ORMs out there, and I especially like the concept of Manager […]

I use this Perl one-liner to display the version number of a module. This module should be available in your @INC paths.
If I need to know the version of CGI.pm

$ perl -MCGI -e ‘print “$CGI::VERSION\n”‘
3.29

I created a shell script so that I can just type the module name.

$ cat pm_version.sh
#!/bin/sh
MODULE=$1
perl -M$MODULE -e ‘print “$’$MODULE’::VERSION\n”‘

So now, […]

Wow! This is so nice. The Higher Order Perl book is now available as a free download.
I’ve really missed out on my readings of good programming books, although I read lots of articles on the Web daily. But nothing like having a well thought out and concise book to motivate and educate you even […]

The relevant post is here.
Tweet This Post  Facebook 

Istanbul is very cool. I’m planning to use it to record my desktop sessions. Its great if you want to give demos on how to use a software, etc.
I’m hard at work on my web application framework - wackit. Its open source, written in Perl and based on CGI::Application. Will use Istanbul to record […]

I released Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.14 recently. The latest release has the all important get_mini_statement() method implemented. Yes! Check your mini account statement (last 20 transactions) from the command line!

The Template::Extract module from CPAN was extremely helpful here. The account statements were available as JavaScript code in the source HTML file.

dattxn[l_count] = ‘10 Apr 2008′;
txndesc[l_count] […]