Archives for: May 2009

Memory footprint of popular CPAN modules

I was reading Jay Kuri's article about CGI alternatives the other day, and I got thinking. How much memory does these various modules for simple (or advanced) web serving use? After having looked through Mark Stosberg's article on startup penalties I… more »

How to make sure class/instance methods are called in the right way

I was recently attending NPW09 and there I met several prominent members of the Perl community. It was a really exciting event for me. I feel like I learned more in two days then I could've learned from studying documentation for two months. One of the g… more »

How to make an unordered list from a tree

Last week I showed you how to take an adjacency list in a database and turn it into a nicely indented textual output. Today I will show you how you can take that same (flat) data structure and turn it into an HTML unordered list (UL) using Template To… more »

Why Should I Learn This?

I was talking with my wife (which is a teacher) about how to make students want to learn a specific subject. My solution to the problem was that you have to make the student understand how learning the subject at hand can improve the quality of something… more »