Computers

A PHP script extending web site's functionality with event scheduler or news archive. [Free for non-commercial use]

A PHP class that provides LDAP authentication with Active Directory.

Converts RSS feeds to HTML for displaying on websites. [Freeware]

A script for storing code snippets. [Open source, GPL]

A PHP, mySQL based customer support solution that provides a real time chat service for online customers. [Commercial]

Forum for the region's programmers to meet and discuss latest developments, listen to talks and make contacts. Includes IRC, mailing list, and calendar of events around Worcestershire, UK.

Open source utility, analogous to javadoc, that generates PL/SQL code documentation in HTML. [Open source, LGPL]

PLEdit: a PL/SQL editor, one of several Oracle tools. [Commercial]

Presentation comparing these programming languages, from a PL/I perspective.

Compiler product for Unix and Windows, from Micro Focus (formerly Liant Software Corporation).

Richard Holt's paper "Introductory Computer Programming Using PL/I" in HTML format.

Resources and links for PL/I. Compilers and tools list, bibliography.

Complete implementation of the P4 Pascal compiler and interpreter. Source for the compiler is available in C and Pascal.

Free 32/64-bit compiler of the GNU Compiler Collection. Has been ported to Mac OS X, and many other platforms. Downloads with brief descriptions.

Development services in Perl and Perl-CGI plus a free introductory online Perl course.

Participants in this conference focus on the here-and-now (Perl 5, new modules, XML and web services) as well as the future (Perl 6 and Parrot).

Slides and sample code from a talk given by Bradford Powell at a Raleigh Perl Mongers meeting.

Book aimed at those who can already program in another language; emphasizes programming style. Distributed under the GNU FDL. [PDF/Postscript]

An "annotated CPAN": a site with all the documentation available on CPAN, along with user-supplied annotations on the margin.

An online book about Perl that focuses on HTML and CGI programming.

Using Perl to perform networking tasks is easy. An article by James Lee.

Annotated list of free online programming books. Topics range from beginner to advanced. Descriptions, publishing information, links.

A description of how to set and use the locale system to support international character sets.

Interface to the cookie routines in libapreq. Based on CGI::Cookie.

Library of modules (and example scripts) for performing various on-line stock trading tasks such as buying, selling, and monitoring.

Implementation of the Java Beans framework in Perl.

Module allows talk to a JVM on a local or remote machine.

Perl module for basic IMAP server administration, including create, delete, subscribe and quota methods

CPAN module that attempts to comprehensively solve the problem of mass testing Perl packages against a wide variety of different environments.

An object oriented interface to WordNet 1.6 database.

The official repository of Perl 6 modules, similar to CPAN. Offers a searchable database of modules and instructions for automated installation.

Contributor to CPAN and several other open-source projects. Weblog, projects, and contact information.

Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. Author of Object Oriented Perl, Perl Best Practices, and the Parse::RecDescent module; one of the lead designers of Perl 6.

Open-source Perl programmer. Expertise in e-mail technology and Mod_Perl. Developer of anti-phishing technology, “Kochi”.

Mostly, but not exclusively, for use in conjunction with MutiPurpose TestWare by MTS. Use thesse utilities to extract and better represent all that mixed data buried inside your specimen.dat files.

Dedicated to creating tools that facilitate the administration of Perl Golf courses.

"The elegant MVC framework". Designed with flexibility in mind, it lets the user choose among a variety of storage models, templating systems, web servers, and operating systems.

A Perl/CGI development tool for Windows.

The successor of MU-Prolog, this compiled Prolog system designed and implemented in the mid-80's as a 'purer' logic solution, interfaces with UNIFY databases and is available under an academic license.

The University of Porto's Edinburgh-style, WAM-based Prolog engine is available on 32-bit machines running Sun and Linux and 64-bit Alphas running OSF UNIX and Linux. An open-source policy is being implemented with regard to distribution.

Using functions and exception pattern dictionaries to simplify error recovery.

An Interview with Guido van Rossum. A conversation with the creator of Python about an effort to teach Python to non-computer science students.

By Guido van Rossum, Fred L. Drake, Jr.; Network Theory Ltd., 2003, ISBN 0954161769. Printed edition of official tutorial, for v2.x, from Python.org. [Network Theory, online]

By Sean McGrath; Prentice Hall PTR, 2000, ISBN 0130211192, has CD-ROM. Methods to build XML applications fast, Python tutorial, DOM and SAX, new Pyxie open source XML processing library. [Prentice Hall PTR]

A set of tools for reverse engineering Python code, including creation of files readable by ArgoUML. Project information, downloads, and bug-track details. [Open Source, GPL]

By Danny Yoo. Visual guide to using IDLE, a simple interactive shell for Python programming. Each step of this tutorial has screenshots for absolute beginners. English, Dutch, German; Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese; Indonesian.

A collection of Python tutorials from resources around the Internet.

Archives of current and past listserv discussions on a LOT of interesting topics. GREAT for researching problems.

An extension for a Python-feel to the Expect library. [Open Source, LGPL]

Python for science. In particular computational chemistry.