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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Hacktoberfest is here

Oct 2, 2016 by brian d foy

community

perl

github

pull-request

git

digitalocean

hacktoberfest

ghojo

Send those Perl GitHub pull requests!

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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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The History of the Schwartzian Transform

Sep 2, 2016 by brian d foy

community

perl

lisp

randal-schwartz

schwartzian-transform

alpine-perl-workshop

A complex sort with a complex history

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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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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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What's new on CPAN - June 2016

Jul 13, 2016 by David Farrell

cpan

sqlformat

runkeeper

plack

eav

svg

xml

u2f

pdfunit

ham

wordbrain

findagrave

A curated look at June’s new CPAN uploads

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Write multiline programs at the terminal

Jul 5, 2016 by David Farrell

development

here-doc

perl

terminal

bash

less

man

http-tiny

Using the shell here-doc for throwaway programs

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Untangling subroutine attributes

Jun 29, 2016 by David Farrell

development

attributes

symbol_table

typeglob

lvalue

How they work and how to implement your own custom versions

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The road to a 55x speedup with XS

Jun 14, 2016 by David Farrell

development

xs

c

uri_encode_xs

uri_escape

percent_encoding

optimization

benchmark

The power of C with the pleasure of Perl

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