Passing by

Mar 29, 2022 by Thibault Duponchelle

development

reference

functions

Looking at how arguments are passed to subs

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Bang Bang

Nov 11, 2020 by Thibault Duponchelle

development

shebang

Fun with the perl shebang

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A tour with Net::FTP

Jul 13, 2020 by Thibault Duponchelle

development

ftp

net-ftp

pure-ftpd

How to write an FTP client in Perl

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JSON, Unicode, and Perl … Oh My!

Jan 29, 2020 by Felipe Gasper

development

unicode

json

cbor

utf8

A look at this popular serialization’s relationship with Perl

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Porting a Dancer plugin to Dancer2

Jan 10, 2020 by Christopher White

development

dancer

dancer2

perl

perl-5

perl-programming

web-development

porting

plugin

How I ported a plugin without having to know it all first

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Creating IP address tools from scratch

Sep 19, 2019 by David Farrell

development

ipv4

cidr

whois

ipv6

net-ip-xs

Playing with IP addresses for fun

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How do I Open This?

Jun 3, 2019 by Olaf Alders

development

vim

emacs

pico

nano

git

github

Find and open files with ease

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Using the right dictionary with Perl and Vim

May 30, 2019 by David Farrell

development

webster

dictionary

vim

vimscript

Parsing Webster’s 1913 classic and integrating it into an editor

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Fork yeah! Part 2

Apr 27, 2019 by David Farrell

development

fork

concurrency

waitpid

posix

wnohang

wuntraced

wifstopped

More concurrency patterns with fork

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Consistency in TMTOWTDI Perl

Apr 8, 2019 by Alexandru Strajeriu

development

git

perlcritic

perltidy

Some tips for improving consistency in shared Perl codebases

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Fork yeah!

Apr 1, 2019 by David Farrell

development

fork

concurrency

parallelism

waitpid

How to use concurrency safely to make your code faster

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Validating untrusted input: numbers

Dec 3, 2018 by David Farrell

development

scalar-util

regexp-common

dualvar

taint

Common techniques and edge cases

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Use terminal colors to distinguish information

Oct 23, 2018 by brian d foy

development

usps

ansi

term-ansicolor

terminal

Term::ANSIColor makes formatting terminal output easy

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Git bisect and Perl

Aug 8, 2017 by David Farrell

development

git

bisect

Bisecting Perl commits doesn’t always work by itself

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On Sigils

May 14, 2017 by David Farrell

development

Should programming languages use them?

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AWS Cloudfront cache invalidation with Paws

Apr 3, 2017 by David Farrell

development

aws

cloudfront

s3

paws

Another useful AWS script built with Paws

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Deploy a static website with AWS S3 and Paws

Feb 21, 2017 by David Farrell

development

aws

paws

s3

static-website

Paws is a comprehensive Perl distribution for AWS services

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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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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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