Stupid open() tricks

Jul 15, 2015 by brian d foy

development

filehandle

ipc

perlio

Everyone tells you to use a three-argument open(), but there’s a lot more you can do …

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What's new on CPAN - June 2015

Jul 9, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

catalyst

dancer

mojo

selenium

solr

slack

dx

hipchat

ditaa

bonusly

zendesk

Our monthly curated guide to CPAN’s newest modules

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Host discovery with broadcast and echo

Jul 6, 2015 by David Farrell

security

tcp

infosec

icmp

socket

ping

udp

Implemented with core Perl only

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Basic network hacking with Perl

Jul 1, 2015 by David Farrell

security

infosec

livehost

port

scan

hack

A few scripts to get going

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Separate data and behavior with table-driven testing

Jun 17, 2015 by brian d foy

testing

data

unit_testing

sprintf

Optimize code re-use and test coverage

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Get to grips with Prove, Perl's test workhorse

Jun 9, 2015 by David Farrell

testing

perl-6

test

prove

cheet_sheet

test-anything-protocol

The ubiquitous test runner is a powerful tool for your arsenal

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What's new on CPAN - May 2015

Jun 4, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

git

gps

marvel

elasticsearch

spamassassin

hadoop

directconnect

google_analytics

pocket

airbrake

Our curated guide to last month’s new CPAN uploads

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Defend your code with Guard

May 19, 2015 by brian d foy

development

guard

safety

Guard helps you protect against unexpected changes to values

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Miniconf NYC - a free Perl conference

May 14, 2015 by David Farrell

community

open_source

nyc

miniconf

Training, hackathon, lightning talks and swag

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Script-fu: how to raise 641 request tracker tickets

May 12, 2015 by David Farrell

community

rakudo

perl_6

nyc

hackathon

rt

NYC Perl hackathon fun

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What's new on CPAN - April 2015

May 7, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

json

jasmine

jboss

bsd

bus_pirate

electron

couchdb

dynamodb

minecraft

Our curated guide to last month’s new CPAN uploads

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Cache::Reddit or: how to use social media as a temporary data store

May 4, 2015 by David Farrell

web

cache

reddit

storable

humor

Introducing a suboptimal solution

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Parsing Perl 5 pod with Perl 6

Apr 30, 2015 by David Farrell

perl-6

pod

perl-6

grammar

pegex

parser

Grammars, action classes, code!

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Writing DuckDuckGo instant answers is easy

Apr 20, 2015 by David Farrell

community

duckduckgo

perldoc

cheatsheet

app_duckpan

The privacy-focused search engine has a helpful community and great tools

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Unit test your code on an in-memory database

Apr 15, 2015 by David Farrell

testing

database

dbix_class

orm

testing

sqlite

Unit tests should be self-contained, even database ones

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A preview of Perl 5.22

Apr 10, 2015 by brian d foy

tooling

5.22

features

New features, deprecations become fatal, and cleaner syntax

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What's New on CPAN - March 2015

Apr 7, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

gs1

postgres

mailmap

ini

ical

ltsv

presto

email

extjs

Our monthly curated guide to the best new CPAN uploads

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3 Awesome Perl Events in NYC this Spring/Summer

Mar 31, 2015 by David Farrell

community

community

duckduckgo

nyc

mojoconf

quacknhack

alleynyc

ny_pm

bloomberg

Quack & Hack, the NY.PM Hackathon and Mojoconf

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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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