Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)
Before reading this entry, please note that this problem has been solved. You can now find fresh tutorials at the:
And now back to your scheduled rant:
October 2011 Archives
How do newbies find Perl learning materials online?
This is a very short entry, which will lead to a long one later. Right now in light of the recent hubbub about the study claiming that perl's as good as a randomized language for newbies, i am trying to find out just how a newbie searches for Perl learning materials online and what he finds first.
Right now i'm concentrating on what kind of search term a newbie would enter in Google. Luckily Google trends help a bit there, allowing me to compare between various search terms.
="http://www.google.de/trends?q=perl+tutorial%2C+perl+cgi%2C+programming+perl%2C+perl+examples%2…
DBD::mysql 4.019 and 4.020 are broken on Win32, here's how to downgrade
Edit:
ActivePerl's Jan Dubois has kindly applied a patch to DBD-mysql 4.020 on their servers, so you can just do this:
Original post:
This a warning to Win32 perl devs using DBD-mysql.
The versions 4.019 and 4.020 are broken in a rather subtle way: All SQL errors are silently ignored and in fact not even triggered, no matter what RaiseError is set to or what kind of error happens. As an example, this code will run without a complaint:
/users/mithaldu/2011/10/index.html
Not writing much, but often found pawing at CPAN with other #perl-cats