Quoting the Shell

Jun 17, 2019 by brian d foy

data

macos

pathfinder

tag

shell

quoting

Escaping program arguments in all the wrong ways

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Mock APIs for free using JSON Schemas

Sep 20, 2017 by David Farrell

data

json-schema

swagger

openapi

mock

Starring JSON::Schema::ToJSON

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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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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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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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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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Announcing Geo::libpostal

Jul 19, 2016 by David Farrell

data

libpostal

geocode

openstreetmap

Perl bindings for libpostal, the address parsing library

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How to parse binary data with Perl

Apr 18, 2016 by David Farrell

data

binary

unpack

png

tzfile

olsen

zoneinfo

Parsing binary data is easy with unpack

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Display real-time data with Curses

Oct 6, 2015 by brian d foy

data

terminal

du

filesystem

How to create terminal interfaces

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Gzipping data directly from Perl

Mar 27, 2015 by brian d foy

data

perl

gzip

compression

TIMTOWDI

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Calculate Fortune's Formula with Perl

Mar 23, 2015 by David Farrell

data

kelly_criterion

algorithm

betting

Algorithm::Kelly makes it easy

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Time::Moment can save time

Feb 2, 2015 by brian d foy

data

time

datetime

8601

moment

A useful alternative to DateTime

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Extracting from HTML with Mojo::DOM

Jan 8, 2015 by brian d foy

data

html

mojolicious

parse

dom

No HTML or regexes necessary

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Analyzing GitHub with the search API

Sep 5, 2014 by David Farrell

data

github

git

docker

search

api

net_github

Net::GitHub makes it easy to search GitHub

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Facing the music with Perl

Aug 29, 2014 by brian d foy

data

sysadmin

cd

file_find

music

apple

itunes

metadata

file_copy

digest_md5

A few Perl modules make it easy

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Parse Excel with ease using Perl

Aug 5, 2014 by David Farrell

data

cpan

excel

xls

xlsx

libre

office

open

read

spreadsheet_read

Spreadsheet::Read makes parsing spreadsheets too easy

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HTML pro-parsing tips

Jul 10, 2014 by David Farrell

data

html

xml

parse

web

libxml2

scrape

xml_libxml

A few tips for parsing HTML with XML::LibXML

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Managing files is a breeze with this DBIx::Class plugin

Jun 30, 2014 by David Farrell

data

file

dbix_class

path_class_file

upload

orm

application

web

Read about how DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::FS can simplify file management in your application

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Parsing data couldn't be easier with XML::Dataset

May 9, 2014 by David Farrell

data

cpan

xml

data

parse

So simple a llama could do it

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3 ways to include data with your Perl distribution

Feb 7, 2014 by David Farrell

data

configuration

module

__data__

TIMTOWDI

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