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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…
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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 it. I am having to…
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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 to data changes (e.g. this…
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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, so things could get a…
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Gist of the Day: There's More Than One Way to Switch Your Class!
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…