Stupid open() tricks

Jul 15, 2015 by brian d foy

development

filehandle

ipc

perlio

Everyone tells you to use a three-argument open(), but there’s a lot more you can do …

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Separate data and behavior with table-driven testing

Jun 17, 2015 by brian d foy

testing

data

unit_testing

sprintf

Optimize code re-use and test coverage

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Defend your code with Guard

May 19, 2015 by brian d foy

development

guard

safety

Guard helps you protect against unexpected changes to values

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A preview of Perl 5.22

Apr 10, 2015 by brian d foy

tooling

5.22

features

New features, deprecations become fatal, and cleaner syntax

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Gzipping data directly from Perl

Mar 27, 2015 by brian d foy

data

perl

gzip

compression

TIMTOWDI

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Time::Moment can save time

Feb 2, 2015 by brian d foy

data

time

datetime

8601

moment

A useful alternative to DateTime

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Extracting from HTML with Mojo::DOM

Jan 8, 2015 by brian d foy

data

html

mojolicious

parse

dom

No HTML or regexes necessary

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The Whitespace in the Perl community

Dec 15, 2014 by brian d foy

community

community

opportunity

Find your niche

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Controlling Firefox from Perl

Dec 8, 2014 by brian d foy

web

javascript

firefox

mechanize

Form submission, scraping, JavaScript execution are all possible

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Facing the music with Perl

Aug 29, 2014 by brian d foy

data

sysadmin

cd

file_find

music

apple

itunes

metadata

file_copy

digest_md5

A few Perl modules make it easy

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Rescue legacy code with modulinos

Aug 7, 2014 by brian d foy

development

module

package

modulino

caller

main

test_more

How the modules-as-programs pattern provides a development path for scripts

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Perl Today (February 2014)

Feb 10, 2014 by brian d foy

community

brian d foy explores the state of Perl in 2014 by soliciting opinions from various respected Perl programmers.

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How to Tell Your Perl Story (at OSCON)

Jan 18, 2008 by brian d foy

community

conference

lightning-talks

oscon

courses-and-training

brian d foy is the author of Mastering Perl, now available in its second edition, as well as several other Perl books. As the founder of Perl mongers, he’s been active in the Perl community for almost 20 years. Ever…

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Lightning Strikes Four Times

Apr 12, 2007 by Shlomi Fish, brian d foy, Bob Free and Mike Friedman

development

aop

cross-cutting-concerns

glut

opengl

pogl

subroutine-attributes

test-counts

c-and-perl

by Mike Friedman Good software design principles tell us that we should work to separate unrelated concerns. For example, the popular Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is common in web application designs. In MVC, separate modular components form a model, which…

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