Parsing Perl 5 pod with Perl 6

Apr 30, 2015 by David Farrell

perl-6

pod

perl-6

grammar

pegex

parser

Grammars, action classes, code!

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Writing DuckDuckGo instant answers is easy

Apr 20, 2015 by David Farrell

community

duckduckgo

perldoc

cheatsheet

app_duckpan

The privacy-focused search engine has a helpful community and great tools

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Unit test your code on an in-memory database

Apr 15, 2015 by David Farrell

testing

database

dbix_class

orm

testing

sqlite

Unit tests should be self-contained, even database ones

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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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What's New on CPAN - March 2015

Apr 7, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

gs1

postgres

mailmap

ini

ical

ltsv

presto

email

extjs

Our monthly curated guide to the best new CPAN uploads

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3 Awesome Perl Events in NYC this Spring/Summer

Mar 31, 2015 by David Farrell

community

community

duckduckgo

nyc

mojoconf

quacknhack

alleynyc

ny_pm

bloomberg

Quack & Hack, the NY.PM Hackathon and Mojoconf

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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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Calculate Fortune's Formula with Perl

Mar 23, 2015 by David Farrell

data

kelly_criterion

algorithm

betting

Algorithm::Kelly makes it easy

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Accelerating Perl

Mar 16, 2015 by Timm Murray

hardware

raspberry

pi

hardware

accelerometer

Things move quickly with Perl. Use accelerometers to find out just how quickly.

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Quickly Debug your Perl code at the command line

Mar 13, 2015 by David Farrell

testing

one_liner

terminal

debug

testing

Something not working? Whip up a one liner and find out why

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GPS and Perl

Mar 10, 2015 by Timm Murray

hardware

raspberry_pi

hardware

gps

nmea

rs232

How to find your way with Perl

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How to test for exceptions in Perl

Mar 5, 2015 by David Farrell

testing

test_more

test

unit_test

test_exception

tap

Does your code blow up the way you expect it to?

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What's new on CPAN - February 2015

Mar 2, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

yaml

git

aws

selenium

lithium

bitvector

json

surveymonkey

haskell

toml

Our curated guide to last month’s CPAN uploads

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Hello perldoc, productivity booster

Feb 26, 2015 by David Farrell

apps

cpan

documentation

pod

terminal

command_line

perldoc

productivity

Get to know perldoc to find Perl answers faster

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Build a Twitter bot with Perl

Feb 23, 2015 by David Farrell

web

perl

reddit

bot

twitter

automation

tweet

Automating tweets can win you more followers!

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Why I Started Geekuni

Feb 18, 2015 by

community

geekuni

moodle

online_learning

Learn more about Geekuni, the online learning environment

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Get to grips with GNU Screen

Feb 16, 2015 by David Farrell

tooling

command_line

multiplexer

screen

sysadmin

terminal

terminator

tmux

Once you start using a multiplexer, you’ll never go back

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A Perl Review of the ODROID-C1

Feb 11, 2015 by Timm Murray

hardware

dancer

hardware

odroid

raspberrypi

device_webio

This little board shows a lot of promise for Perl-based hardware projects

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Build a Reddit bot with Perl

Feb 9, 2015 by David Farrell

web

xml

perl

reddit

rss

feed

atom

bot

It’s easy and fast to do

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What's new on CPAN - January 2015

Feb 6, 2015 by David Farrell

cpan

catalyst

dist_zilla

platypus

libffi

google_tasks

data_fake

devops

diff

Our curated guide to last month’s CPAN uploads

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