This month’s “Perl of Wisdom” is my 237th article for various magazines, including 85 monthly articles for this magazine alone.
Over the years, I’ve avoided overlap as much as I can muster. Because of this diversity, it’s hard to find a beginner or intermediate Perl topic that I haven’t already spoken at least a bit about. (And this clearly makes me the leader for in-print authorship for Perl writings, at somewhere around 20 million bylines total.)
And thanks to the generous publishers I’ve had over the years, all 237 (and counting) magazine articles are online on my Web site, where you can examine them for free. The hard part is getting the word out about this resource. Oh, sure, I have a “search this site” box on my site, hoping that people take advantage of relative keywords. But IRC bots seem all the rage right now, and I thought a bot would be an effective and novel way to find my material.
Yahoo! for Search
I recently stumbled across the Yahoo::Search module, which performs programmatic web searches using the decently-sized and speedy Yahoo search engine. Now, I was previously familiar with Net::Google for Google searches, but I’ve switched to using Yahoo search for a few reasons.
*One advantage of Yahoo search for my columns is that I can actually search for module names, such as Class::DBI. Google’s search for words containing colons has been broken for about a year…
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