More than a language, Perl is a phenomenom. In this section, I'm placing my contributions to the inmense (and growing!) community of Perl users.
One of my best Perl - related success stories,
published by the nice folks at O'Reilly & Associates
.
An article discussing the process of fetching an email message through the POP3 protocol, analyze its MIME structure to extract each of its parts and convert the HTML that might be included into a text file that can be displayed in devices that only support 7-bit characters, such as some cellular phones.
This was published by my friends at The Perl Journal
in their
february, 2003 edition. Please consider subscribing to this
publication.
An article about a simple script that I use
to keep this website in sync with the work copy that lives in my
laptop through FTP. My friends at The Linux Journal®
published it here
.
This article shows how to create a simple database of music files, using it to conveniently back up my music collection to CD-R media.
This was published by my friends at The Perl Journal
. Please consider
subscribing to this fine publication.
Measuring server connections
(Sólo en inglés)
In many cases, when measuring web (or other service) server performance, the focus is placed in measuring connections per second. This article presents a simple methodology to measure the concurrent connections, including a simple script to perform the actual testing.
In this article, I present NetAddr::IP, a module I wrote to ease all tasks related with subnet operations. I provide a variety of examples of real-world mini-problems that are quickly solved using this module.
A comparison from the performance point of view, among the different options that Perl and CPAN offer for manipulating sets of IP addresses.

