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Gist of the Day: Named Capture in Perl Regular Expressions (Briefly)

2014-01-17

One of the largest critiques I see about regular expressions is that they lack readability. Well, in Perl 5.10 named capture was added (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html) which…

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Gist of the Day: Playing with Forks

2014-01-16

Parallel processing is all the rage these days, and life has me at a point where I’m needing to use it. I am having to…

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Gist of the Day: Test::MockModule for Repeatable Tests!

2013-10-27

I like repeatable tests. The #1 benefit of repeatable tests is that they’re repeatable. This also means they’re less vulnerable to data changes (e.g. this…

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Gist of the Day: How to Test a File You Wrote!

2013-09-25

First, I suppose I should apologize for two days of silence. I am currently going through a major life transition, so things could get a…

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Gist of the Day: There's More Than One Way to Switch Your Class!

2013-09-22

In programming you will commonly see abstraction layers. Say, for instance, you wanted to have a program to take some arbitrary data format and load…

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Gist of the Day: Mojo Merging Hashes

2013-09-21

Mojolicious is a fun module/framework/thing for me. How do I love Mojolicious? Let me count the ways (sorry Shakespeare): Mojo has ridiculously few dependencies, especially…

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Gist of the Day: Using Mojo, Mongo, and SL4A to send SMS Messages (2 of 2)

2013-09-20

I am very sorry that I missed posting this yesterday, I kinda got crazy sleepy and went to bed shortly after getting home from work.…

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Gist of the Day: Using Mojo, Mongo, and SL4A to send SMS Messages (1 of 2)

2013-09-18

I got a little bored with what I had been posting (I suspect you did, too), so I’m doing something neat. I’m going to write…

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Gist of the Day: Old SL4A Example!

2013-09-17

So I’m on very little sleep after a long three days of travel which is not yet done. Nonetheless, the show must go on! Today…

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Gist of the Day: Counting Bits

2013-09-16

I’m pretty sure there’s a more efficient way of doing this, but here’s what I’ve quickly typed up in 10 minutes sitting in my hotel.…