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Technology is the fun stuff, especially when it is relatively new. See what our readers think is the hot technology going into 2006.

Make a geocoding database available to the world through a Perl-driven web service. Then, to demonstrate the service, a PHP web services client talks to this Perl service to retrieve coordinates for a given mailing address, and then passes those coordinates to the Google Maps API to create the appropriate map.

Catch hackers, stop spyware, and be home by 5:00! Let Perl do the dirty work, and focus your time fixing problems rather than tracking down computers and users!

LAMP is the new industry buzz word, grandly promising to change the landscape of application development and improve economics in the enterprise. But what exactly is LAMP? Find out what it is, who uses it, and how it works.

Create a database allowing you to pinpoint the vast majority of mailing addresses throughout the United States, opening up the possibility to create any number of spatial applications.

Discover how to retrieve map coordinates using the geocoder.us Web services and PHP.

A picture is worth a thousand words. The right picture could be worth much more. Use RRDtool (RoundRobinDatabasetool) to provide data visualization to process more data. Plus, it just looks cool..

Create applications that are as rich and responsive as any desktop-based application, but with the added advantage of accessibility via the ubiquitous web browser with the use of AJAX and the Google Maps API.

Need a way to gather data without the help of Web Services? See how to automatically collect web-based data by utilizing page retrieval, authentication, and cookies using Perl.

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Java loses the top spot! Which programming language is currently the most popular? We present the rankings according to the TIOBE Programming Community (TPC) Index.

Which programming language is currently the most popular? We present the rankings according to the TIOBE Programming Community (TPC) Index.

Understanding regular expressions through the eyes of the engine is the key to writing efficient regular expressions. See what it can do for you!

Many people do not take advantage of the power behind Perl. Most instuctional Perl material only teaches enough to get an interested programmer informed enough to write shell or C programs in Perl. This new series will show you Perl's power, style, conventions, and it's unique constructs.

The votes have been counted. See what you chose as the Product of the Year 2003.

Perl has long been heralded as the Swiss army knife of computer languages. Learn how to use the language to carve data out of Microsoft's Active Directory.

Read about the origins of Perl 6 and the Parrot project.

If you are new to LDAP this piece will answer many of your key questions: What is LDAP? What are directory services? Who needs it? How is it used? Where do they fit in the grand scheme of things? Which ones exist? What is their relation to LDAP?

Review the architecture of Perl DBI (The Perl Database Interface Module), what DBI provides to interact with databases, then cover simple tasks such as connecting and disconnecting from databases. Finally, we'll discuss the important topic of error handling and describe some of the DBI's utility methods and functions.

How does Perl really rate in terms of speed?

Acquire three common tools to help Perl programmers write clean and maintainable code: the strict pragma, the warnings pragma, and taint checking.

Interested in integrating Perl into your .NET applications? Get details on the PerlNET Project here.

A new survey published by industry research firm Evans Data Corporation reveals that the corporate enterprise is uniformly embracing wireless technology.