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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Who has the best package manager? Part one

Aug 21, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

cpan

metacpan

npm

pypi

rubygems

package_manager

Who has the best package manager and what we can we learn from all of them

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Celebrate CPAN day on August 16th

Aug 13, 2014 by David Farrell

community

cpan

module

github

distribution

cpanday

pause

celebration

Give back to the community on CPAN day

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Rescue legacy code with modulinos

Aug 7, 2014 by brian d foy

development

module

package

modulino

caller

main

test_more

How the modules-as-programs pattern provides a development path for scripts

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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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What's new on CPAN July 2014

Aug 1, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

mojolicious

amazon

hbase

pcduino

gnupg

git

aws

docker

duckduckgo

Our curated guide to July’s new CPAN uploads

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Your users deserve better than Disqus

Jul 29, 2014 by David Farrell

community

security

disqus

comments

privacy

Why Disqus is not the commenting system you’re looking for

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Create static web apps with Wget

Jul 22, 2014 by David Farrell

apps

app

mvc

static

perl

framework

wget

recursive

recursion

webapp

An alternative to Wallflower

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Generate static websites from dynamic Perl web apps

Jul 15, 2014 by David Farrell

web

nginx

mvc

static

web

wallflower

psgi

framework

App::Wallflower generates static apps from PSGI applications

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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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What's new on CPAN - June 2014

Jul 3, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

module

stratopan

dancer

mojolicious

amazon

raygun

css

go

rabbitmq

oeis

cgi

dist_zilla

paypal

jenkins

Our curated guide to June’s new CPAN uploads

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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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YAPC::NA 2014 Talks Preview

Jun 23, 2014 by David Farrell

community

community

news

We pick out some of the most promising talks in the schedule

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How to build Perl on Android 4.4

Jun 16, 2014 by David Farrell

tooling

configuration

sysadmin

android

kitkat

A step by step guide to installing Perl 5.20 on Android KitKat

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Perl distributions, modules, packages explained

Jun 13, 2014 by David Farrell

tooling

configuration

cpan

documentation

module

config

distribution

package

Learn which files are in a distribution, the difference between a module and a package etc.

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Get GNOME 3 popup alerts for IRC

Jun 9, 2014 by David Farrell

apps

irssi

irc

gnome3

Don’t miss your IRC chats and messages

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Create professional slideshows in seconds with App::revealup

Jun 6, 2014 by David Farrell

apps

app

javascript

github

reveal_js

App::revealup converts markdown to slick HTML slide shows

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What's new on CPAN - May 2014

Jun 2, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

news

A curated look at May’s new CPAN uploads

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Perl v5.20 - what you need to know

May 27, 2014 by David Farrell

development

community

news

We review the new features, changes and enhancements of the new Perl release

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How to contribute to the exercism.io Perl 5 repo

May 22, 2014 by David Farrell

community

community

github

open_source

perl-5

perl-6

exercism_io

A step by step guide to porting exercises

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