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Reviving old code.
One of the joys of Perl is the rich community support that it has enjoyed over the years. Even today when other languages are surging…
Author: manchicken
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iPad as a Workstation
NOTE: I do not work for any of the companies that make any of the products below, nor do I earn anything from mentioning their…
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Fellow maintainers, tell me about your project!
Hey all! Tell me about your project that you’re hoping to attract good PRs to. I maintain Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ, which is a Perl module implementing AMQP…
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I love carton, and you should to.
This one will be quick, promise! Hacktoberfest is upon us once again, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! That said, it’s also the…
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Simple Code Tasks Should Be Simple
I frequently see people do simple things in the most complicated ways with dynamic languages. I suspect much of this is a carry-over from how…
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That awkward moment when you need to generate test data…
The Problem I have a system which uses SNS to send mail messages to a Lambda for additional processing. The Lambda is written in JavaScript,…
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Shell command of the day
This command will look for the ID value XXXXX in your log files ending in either *.log or *.log-YYYYMMDD. It will then only return output…
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Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ Releases
This weekend I released two versions of Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ on CPAN: 0.007000 and 0.007001. The first version was the culmination of some major refactoring in how…
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Re-factoring Your Old Projects
Once upon a time I maintained a very small, lightweight framework to allow for Perl interfaces to be integrated with directly from client-side JavaScript. I…
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Gist of the Day: Named Capture in Perl Regular Expressions (Briefly)
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…