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I love carton, and you should to.

  • 2020-10-01
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

  • 2020-09-29
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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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: 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…