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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…
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Gist of the Day: Using Mojo, Mongo, and SL4A to send SMS Messages (1 of 2)
I got a little bored with what I had been posting (I suspect you did, too), so I’m doing something…
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Gist of the Day: Find All Paths for an Undirected Graph
I’ve been doing a lot of stuff lately with data structures and algorithms. This is one that seemed remarkably complicated…
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Gist of the Day: Re-Inventing Hashes… In Perl.
Before you begin the well-deserved flaming, please understand that I do not intend on submitting this to CPAN. This is purely…
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Gist of the Day: Process Control with fork(), exec(), and kill()
I feel really bad for leaving you all high and dry yesterday… really bad… okay, you’re right, I don’t really…
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Gist of the Day: Analyzing Performance with Benchmark.pm
In my post on Inline::C a few days ago I mentioned The Rules of Optimization Club, and then I ranted a little…
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Gist of the Day: Some convenience macros for use with Perl C internals
I feel awful. Like, really awful. The baby is sick, my partner is sick, I am sick. You still want…