Oct 20, 2013 by David Farrell

CPAN mirrors are online repositories which host or “mirror” the Perl module distributions on CPAN. There are hundreds of CPAN mirrors dispersed throughout the World. When the CPAN program is run for the first time on a machine, it will configure the CPAN mirror list to use for checking for new versions of modules and downloading Perl distributions. All CPAN mirrors are not created equally though: the distribution list’s age, speed and the geographic location vary from mirror to mirror and so you may want to re-configure your local CPAN mirror list to suit your needs. This article describes how to find CPAN mirrors and edit the local CPAN mirror configuration.

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Sep 29, 2013 by David Farrell

Benchmarking is easy with the Benchmark module

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Jul 29, 2013 by David Farrell

CPAN is a fantastic Perl resource with thousands of modules and new ones being added all the time. But how do you keep track of what’s being released? This article describes three techniques for keeping tabs on the latest CPAN releases.

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Apr 25, 2013 by David Farrell

Another cool way to get the version of a module

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Apr 7, 2013 by David Farrell

A quick way to list all non-core modules installed via CPAN using the command line:

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Mar 27, 2013 by David Farrell

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Mar 27, 2013 by David Farrell

How to write your own uninstall modules script

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Mar 24, 2013 by David Farrell

Perl module features and behaviour can change from version to version and so knowing the version number of an installed Perl module can be useful in several scenarios. Below are three different command line methods for finding out the version number of an installed module that work on Bash and Windows Powershell. So fire up the terminal and get typing!

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