What's new on CPAN - January 2017

Feb 13, 2017 by David Farrell

cpan

chipmunk

telegram

mop

qn

fitbit

pollux

1password

A curated look at January’s new CPAN uploads

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Laptop review: Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (9365)

Jan 25, 2017 by David Farrell

hardware

dell

laptop

xps

Dell goes one better with this new 2-in-1

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What's new on CPAN - December 2016

Jan 5, 2017 by David Farrell

cpan

ansi

azure

blackboard

jira

redis

buddy-system

ulid

json-rpc

mongodb

confluence

diff

catalyst

dancer2

mojolicious

bokehjs

A curated look at December’s new CPAN uploads

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Obscure Perl trick: single-quote separators

Dec 28, 2016 by David Farrell

development

ada

single-quote

namespace

trick

One of Perl’s ancient artifacts

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Perl module names are filepaths - and that's all

Dec 14, 2016 by David Farrell

development

cpan

pause

cuckoo

module

package

perlmod

Understand how Perl loads code

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What's new on CPAN - November 2016

Dec 8, 2016 by David Farrell

cpan

azure

swagger

lobid

lumberjack

acme

cpan-testers

gvg

ajpeg

xlsx

mattermost

stomp

kingpin

mojolicious

catalyst

mce-hobo

kayako

A curated look at November’s new CPAN uploads

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How to build a base module

Nov 30, 2016 by David Farrell

development

exporter

import-base

mastering-perl

Establish consistency and reduce boilerplate across your project

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I'm speaking at the London Perl Workshop 2016

Nov 24, 2016 by David Farrell

community

lpw

london

Join us for an exciting day of technical talks and fun

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How to upload a script to CPAN

Nov 14, 2016 by David Farrell

cpan

distribution

metacpan

cpan-testers

toolchain

Share your code with others via CPAN

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What's new on CPAN - October 2016

Nov 3, 2016 by David Farrell

cpan

tibia

pandoc

tnt

bread-board

raspberry-pi

png

netfilter

text-xslate

ajv

bson

test2

A curated look at October’s new CPAN uploads

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How to empty a file with Perl

Oct 26, 2016 by David Farrell

data

truncate

open

filehandle

vim

As easy as you’d expect it to be

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What's new on CPAN - September 2016

Oct 12, 2016 by David Farrell

cpan

drac

oozie

monzo

cassandra

keystone

zstd

dbic

duckduckgo

json-schema

A curated look at September’s new CPAN uploads

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Don't forget to #Perl

Sep 28, 2016 by David Farrell

community

twitter

hashtag

Help users find Perl related tweets more easily

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5 things I learned from Learning Perl 7th Edition

Sep 23, 2016 by David Farrell

community

learning-perl

oreilly

brian-d-foy

A surprisingly in-depth book for beginners

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Using bit arrays with large integers

Sep 15, 2016 by David Farrell

data

bigint

bit-array

bitmask

integer

memory

Testing huge bit arrays with Perl

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What's new on CPAN - August 2016

Sep 7, 2016 by David Farrell

cpan

farmhash

medium

xisbn

mailgun

opan

statsite

band-in-a-box

imager

monorail

kinesis

facebook

template-pure

A curated look at August’s new CPAN uploads

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Save space with bit arrays

Aug 23, 2016 by David Farrell

data

bit-array

bitwise

binary

boolean

bigint

integer

An old school data structure that efficiently stores data

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Identify slow code with Devel::Timer

Aug 17, 2016 by David Farrell

development

devel-timer

benchmark

refactor

optimize

speed

How timing statements can help you pinpoint bottlenecks

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What's new on CPAN - July 2016

Aug 9, 2016 by David Farrell

cpan

socket.io

powershell

mailchimp

readonly

libffi

libpostal

apache

ieee754

A curated look at July’s new CPAN uploads

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Building a UTF-8 encoder in Perl

Aug 2, 2016 by David Farrell

data

unicode

utf8

encode

decode

binary

bitmask

codepoint

Learn UTF-8 by encoding it yourself

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