3 min read 0 Hacktoberfest Hacktoberfest 2024, Entry 1 manchicken 2024-10-05 Today’s the first day I had time to really put in to Hacktoberfest and I thought I’d let y’all know…
1 min read 0 Hacking Hacktoberfest It’s Preptember! manchicken 2024-09-07 Hey friends, are you excited for Hacktoberfest? I sure am. Here’s a quick list of projects I’m hoping to do…
1 min read 0 Gist of the Day Uncategorized Shell command of the day manchicken 2016-06-01 This command will look for the ID value XXXXX in your log files ending in either *.log or *.log-YYYYMMDD. It…
2 min read 0 Hacking Perl Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ Releases manchicken 2014-11-09 This weekend I released two versions of Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ on CPAN: 0.007000 and 0.007001. The first version was the culmination of…
1 min read 0 Hacking Perl Re-factoring Your Old Projects manchicken 2014-01-28 Once upon a time I maintained a very small, lightweight framework to allow for Perl interfaces to be integrated with…
1 min read 4 Free Software General Gist of the Day Perl Gist of the Day: Named Capture in Perl Regular Expressions (Briefly) manchicken 2014-01-17 One of the largest critiques I see about regular expressions is that they lack readability. Well, in Perl 5.10 named…
1 min read 0 Free Software Gist of the Day Perl Gist of the Day: Playing with Forks manchicken 2014-01-16 Parallel processing is all the rage these days, and life has me at a point where I’m needing to use…
1 min read 0 Gist of the Day Hacking Perl Gist of the Day: Test::MockModule for Repeatable Tests! manchicken 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…
1 min read 0 Gist of the Day Hacking Perl Gist of the Day: How to Test a File You Wrote! manchicken 2013-09-25 First, I suppose I should apologize for two days of silence. I am currently going through a major life transition,…
2 min read 0 Gist of the Day Hacking Perl Gist of the Day: There's More Than One Way to Switch Your Class! manchicken 2013-09-22 In programming you will commonly see abstraction layers. Say, for instance, you wanted to have a program to take some…