Run only one instance of a program at a time

Nov 4, 2015 by David Farrell

apps

lockfile

process

race_condition

Lockfiles can provide race condition-free solutions

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What's new on CPAN - October 2015

Nov 3, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

airbrake

slack

jira

fnv

linkedin

A curated look at October’s new CPAN uploads

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Professional scripts are a snap with Getopt::Long

Oct 21, 2015 by David Farrell

development

app

terminal

type_check

This core module makes it easy to write programs

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Understanding Haskell types

Oct 14, 2015 by David Farrell

development

types

oreilly

cis194

lyas

ghci

The basics

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Display real-time data with Curses

Oct 6, 2015 by brian d foy

data

terminal

du

filesystem

How to create terminal interfaces

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What's new on CPAN - September 2015

Oct 1, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

json

libpuzzle

http_headers

rgb

oauth

diachronic

neovim

A curated look at September’s new CPAN uploads

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Activating Perl 6 syntax highlighting in Vim

Sep 22, 2015 by David Farrell

tooling

config

perl-6

productivity

vim

vimscript

Four tricks to get the highlighting you want

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How to send verification emails using Mojolicious

Sep 18, 2015 by Joel Berger

web

mojo

email

verification

automated

Control access to your Mojo app with registration emails

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What's new on CPAN - August 2015

Sep 3, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

hadoop

webmaster_tools

cloudfront

swagger

hilbert

php

A curated look at August’s new CPAN uploads

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How to choose a DuckDuckGo cheatsheet topic

Aug 29, 2015 by David Farrell

community

seo

goodie

duckduckhack

Some sources of inspiration

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Check your DuckDuckGo cheatsheets with Perl

Aug 28, 2015 by David Farrell

testing

syntax

json

cheatsheet

Zero-in on any defects with this Perl script

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Simple, secure backups with Perl

Aug 27, 2015 by David Farrell

apps

stasis

gpg

tar

dropbox

aes

encryption

security

privacy

Creating encrypted, compressed archives

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Writing DuckDuckGo plugins just got easier

Aug 22, 2015 by David Farrell

community

community

search

json

All you need is JSON

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Laptop review: Dell XPS 13 2015

Aug 18, 2015 by David Farrell

hardware

dell

laptop

xps

An excellent machine

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Port scanning with Perl, Part II

Aug 15, 2015 by David Farrell

security

tcp

icmp

udp

nmap

Towards building a professional tool

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What's new on CPAN - July 2015

Aug 4, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

mojo

pingen

topological

pdl

influxdb

crate

ssh

dios

A curated look at July’s new CPAN uploads

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Rip music from anywhere with Audacity

Jul 30, 2015 by David Farrell

apps

youtube

bandcamp

audacity

soundcloud

pandora

portaudio

mp3

Open source software makes it easy

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Port scanning with Perl

Jul 20, 2015 by David Farrell

security

tcp

infosec

udp

libpcap

Building a concurrent, randomized, capable port scanner

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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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What's new on CPAN - June 2015

Jul 9, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

catalyst

dancer

mojo

selenium

solr

slack

dx

hipchat

ditaa

bonusly

zendesk

Our monthly curated guide to CPAN’s newest modules

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