Introduction
I’ve been developing Web applications for a long time. Over the past few years, I’ve become a fan of the Catalyst Web Framework. Much like Perl itself, it makes the easy things easy and the hard things possible. One of Catalyst’s biggest strengths is that it does not attempt to provide a [...]
This is what happens with Perl if you try to connect to a database and don’t have the driver installed:
Chris@Chris-Mastos-iMac:~$ perl -MDBI -e ‘$db = DBI->connect(“dbi:Oracle:MM_WH”)’
install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can’t locate DBD/Oracle.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1 .) at (eval 3) line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::Oracle perl module hasn’t been fully installed,
or [...]
Which language will achieve critical mass? Will it be Groovy, Scala, or Clojure? Maybe Jruby or Jython? Could it be JavaFX Script? Or maybe Fan is finally the answer. All they seem to have in common is “let’s fix Java”. With C# closing in on one side and Ruby on [...]