The goal of this web page is to help you write easily maintainable and re-usable code. In Perl, re-usability is implemented through modules, which are similar to libraries in other languages.

This page will guide you through creating your module and documenting it, as well as giving you some tips on how to make your code as maintainable and re-usable as possible.

Remembing perl. I love perl. I am very productive in perl.

Creating (and Maintaining) Perl Modules

According to The Feynman Problem Solving Algorithm steps you need to undertake to solve any problem are really simple:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think real hard.
3. Write down the answer.

In most cases you can't avoid step two, but sometimes you need to get the answer as soon as possible. The Cookbook won't teach you, but it might give you an help if you are felling lost working with SOAP or SOAP::Lite.

Perl SOAP cookbook

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a great web application development framework. Although I'm still coming up to speed with actually developing RoR apps, I also wanted to become familiar with the production deployment process. Most of the documentation out there sort of glosses over this plumbing. However, sooner or later you need to get your hands dirty.

MacDevCenter.com -- Bringing Ruby on Rails with FastCGI into Mac OS X Server

IO2 Technology develops the commercially available Heliodisplay (tm) platform, as well as discrete systems for mission-specific applications which are not advertised. The embryonic stage of the Heliodisplay is the first platform developed at IO2, and in it's initial commercial phase for 'light' applications. The Skivis (tm) system is targeted towards corporate customers serving larger display demands. More advanced displays and interfaces for novel visualization, situational awareness and re-organization of I/O space are under development. These future systems are disparate technologies that IO2 does not openly promote on it's website.

I likey.

IO2Technology: Heliodisplay/ Interactive Free-Space Display

`/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/ config.h', needed by `Makefile'. Stop.

Install Xcode. It's on your Tiger DVD. To expand on that a bit - Make sure to install the "BSD SDK" when you install Xcode. That's the sub-package that includes Perl's header files. I can't recall offhand if it's installed by default or not. I *think* it is, but it's worth doing an "advanced install" and reviewing the selected sub-packages just to make sure.

Intalling Perl Modules from the CPAN on OS X TIger

OpenReports is a flexible open source web reporting solution that allows users to generate dynamic reports in a browser. OpenReports uses JasperReports, an excellent full featured open source reporting engine, and was developed using leading open source components including WebWork, Velocity, Quartz, and Hibernate.

To Ruby, or not to Ruby?

OpenReports - Home

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatabilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.

GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language

Pretty AJAX sequence diagram.

Modelworks Software Solutions: AJAX Tutorial

Another way to make CSV from SQL Server.

Microsoft SQL Server - Using COALESCE to Build Comma-Delimited String - SQLTeam.com

How to do what the title says.

Microsoft SQL Server - Converting Multiple Rows into a CSV String - SQLTeam.com