Perl.com: past, present and future at TPC::NA

Jun 17, 2018 by David Farrell

community

tpc

tpc-na

slc

I’m speaking at The Perl Conference in Salt Lake City

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Writing new testing tools with Test2

Jun 12, 2018 by David Farrell

testing

test2

test2-tools-skipuntil

Extending Perl’s powerful new test framework

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What's new on CPAN - May 2018

Jun 3, 2018 by David Farrell

cpan

qgoda

bing

pokemon

dot

test2

kubernetes

docker

swapi

A curated look at May’s new CPAN uploads

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What's new on CPAN - April 2018

May 7, 2018 by David Farrell

cpan

rslinux

robinhood

menlo

data-cuid

urandom

zfssa

A curated look at April’s new CPAN uploads

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XS utility routines that are good to know

Apr 30, 2018 by David Farrell

tutorials

xs

utf8

libpostal

tie

boot

XS functions you’ll use again and again

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Participate in the 2018 Perl developer survey

Apr 17, 2018 by David Farrell

community

built-in-perl

survey

Help us understand the state of Perl

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What's new on CPAN - March 2018

Apr 2, 2018 by David Farrell

cpan

duktape

firebase

freetype

raspberry-pi

anyevent

markua

mojolicious

A curated look at March’s new CPAN uploads

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How to find a programming topic to write about

Mar 26, 2018 by David Farrell

tutorials

writing

contributing

Writing is easier when you know the goal

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Hidden Gems of Perl.com Vol.2

Mar 12, 2018 by David Farrell

perldotcom

hidden-gems

style

Classic articles from Perl.com’s archive

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What's new on CPAN - February 2018

Mar 5, 2018 by David Farrell

cpan

twilio

jsonapi

eiffel

github

spid

bit-torrent

pod

A curated look at February’s new CPAN uploads

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How does traceroute work?

Feb 28, 2018 by David Farrell

networking

traceroute

udp

tcp

icmp

Identifying which routers process an IP request

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Real World Perl: Analyze Chrome's heap

Feb 19, 2018 by David Farrell

community

real-world-perl

chrome

heap

Using Perl to analyze (and optimize) Chrome’s heap

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Reading remote documentation

Feb 11, 2018 by David Farrell

cpan

perldoc

cpandoc

pod

metacpan

sh

How to read the documentation for modules you don’t have

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How strong is your password?

Feb 6, 2018 by David Farrell

security

zxcvbn

dropbox

entropy

data-password-zxcvbn

Password strength checking with zxcvbn

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What's new on CPAN - January 2018

Feb 3, 2018 by David Farrell

cpan

binance

bitcoin

acme

mpd

cxml

xml-libxml

statsd

A curated look at January’s new CPAN uploads

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When Perl isn't fast enough

Jan 28, 2018 by David Farrell

programming-languages

go

threads

microsoft

java

router-xs

catalyst

kelp

text-xslate

Losing in a competition to Java and Go

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Real World Perl: Measuring Working Set Size

Jan 18, 2018 by David Farrell

community

wss

real-world-perl

brendan-gregg

meltdown

kpti

Using Perl to measure Linux memory use for Meltdown patch analysis

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Writing your own XS functions

Jan 12, 2018 by David Farrell

tutorials

xs

stdint.h

perlapi

Write functions that execute at the speed of C

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What's new on CPAN - December 2017

Jan 8, 2018 by David Farrell

cpan

diff

iex

extutils-makemaker

gitlab

base91

libjpeg

u2f

modbus

A curated look at December’s new CPAN uploads

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Hidden Gems of Perl.com

Jan 4, 2018 by David Farrell

perldotcom

hidden-gems

state-of-the-onion

perlguts

perl-style

perl-internals

perl-6

Classic articles from Perl.com’s archive

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