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That awkward moment when you need to generate test data…

2020-09-28

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

2016-06-01

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

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 some major refactoring in how…

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Re-factoring Your Old Projects

2014-01-28

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)

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…