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No, programmers don't code all day

Posted April 9, 2013 - 12:00 pm

A new survey finds out what software developers already know: writing code is only one part of the job
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History of the O'Reilly cover animals

Posted April 3, 2013 - 10:56 am

O’Reilly’s cover designer tells the story of how they came to use animals on the covers of their popular books
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Why program in Perl 5.16? Reliability

Posted May 30, 2012 - 11:05 am

Perl 5.16 hit the streets last week, and upgrading is no longer a question of "what will break" but rather "how boring is this process?"
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From PHP to Perl: What's hot, what's not in scripting languages

Posted October 17, 2011 - 11:43 am

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting languages any longer merely the tool used for quick-and-dirty patching (someone once called Perl the duct tape of the Internet, and it stuck so well that Perl lovers wear the label proudly). No, today, scripting languages are popular for "real" programming work. In fact, entire systems and large-scale enterprise-grade projects are built from them.
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