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It's a surprisingly high-level, high-performance target for all sorts of languages. Dan Sugalski demonstrates Parrot's capabilities by building a compiler for a simple, yet business-critical, 4GL. A lesser-known technique, Bloom filters, trades a tunable false-positive rate for compactness -- and has interesting applications for privacy concerns. Maciej Ceglowski explains the theory and practice of Bloom filters. How much more productive would you be if you could extract, index, and search that information? Robert Bernier demonstrates how to store data from emails into a database, where you can use data-mining techniques to analyze it. Casey West comes up with a new approach using Imager and Mason to fit in with Mason sites. While recent advances have improved privacy concerns, the specification leaves room for easy attacks. Alexander Prohorenko explains the situation and tests several recent browsers. If you follow this advice, you should be able to discover problems before your users begin calling you to complain. Duane is the creator of Squid and the author of 130 Squid: The Definitive Guide. He shows us how he uses Perl to layout and print these dictionaries. IO::All ties together almost all of Perl's IO handling libraries in one neat, cohesive package. Objects are nearly there, and the fight over "sort" cotinues. In this article, we'll look at how to use Plucene to build a search engine to index a web site. Pete Sergeant devises a way to convert a mailbox into a WAP page for you to easily check over the phone. Debian Hitting the Exchange 249 Steve Mallett 250 Where's the Camel? All trademarks and registered trademarks appearing on the O'Reilly Network are the property of their respective owners.
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