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I love function signatures in Perl, and you should too.
One of the most common tasks in programming is receiving arguments within a function. In Perl, historically, this task has…
Category: Perl
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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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…
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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…
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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: Playing with Forks
Parallel processing is all the rage these days, and life has me at a point where I’m needing to use…
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Gist of the Day: Test::MockModule for Repeatable Tests!
I like repeatable tests. The #1 benefit of repeatable tests is that they’re repeatable. This also means they’re less vulnerable…
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Gist of the Day: How to Test a File You Wrote!
First, I suppose I should apologize for two days of silence. I am currently going through a major life transition,…