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Hacktoberfest 2024, Entry 1
Today’s the first day I had time to really put in to Hacktoberfest and I thought I’d let y’all know how it went. As I…
Tag: perl
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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 taken on a number of…
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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 when other languages are surging…
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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 a Perl module implementing AMQP…
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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! That said, it’s also the…
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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…