What's new on CPAN - January 2014

Feb 3, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

module

news

A curated look at the last month’s new CPAN uploads

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Announcing: the Perl Nerd Merit Badge contest

Jan 29, 2014 by David Farrell

community

community

contest

velociraptor

Enter for a chance to win an exclusive Perl Nerd Merit Badge

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Download a YouTube video with one line of Perl

Jan 26, 2014 by David Farrell

web

one_liner

youtube

… and a lot of of help from WWW::YouTube::Download

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An interview with Steven Haryanto

Jan 24, 2014 by David Farrell

community

community

cpan

interview

We catch up with the prolific CPAN module author

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Make your code run faster with Perl's secret turbo module

Jan 21, 2014 by David Farrell

development

module

multicore

optimization

multithreading

Multi-core programming is a breeze with MCE

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Display beautiful Perl code in HTML without JavaScript

Jan 13, 2014 by David Farrell

web

module

syntax

html

javascript

PPI::Prettify makes pretty-printing Perl code as HTML easy

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Solve almost any datetime need with Time::Piece

Jan 10, 2014 by David Farrell

data

module

date

time

datetime

strptime

strftime

How to parse, print, format, compare and do math with datetimes in Perl

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The easy way to build stand-alone Perl apps

Jan 5, 2014 by David Farrell

apps

configuration

app

Making dependency-free Perl applications is simple with App::FatPacker

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Shazam! Use Image::Magick with Perlbrew in minutes

Jan 1, 2014 by David Farrell

tooling

configuration

sysadmin

perlbrew

imagemagick

How to get a local non-root install of Image::Magick working with Perlbrew

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The Year in Perl 2013 Retrospective

Jan 1, 2014 by chromatic

community

Perl had a great year in 2013. Here are some highlights.

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Get 30% off the new Perl One Liners book

Dec 25, 2013 by David Farrell

community

one_liner

news

offer

Happy holidays; enjoy this discount on the latest Perl book until 15th January 2014

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Schedule jobs like a boss with every

Dec 22, 2013 by David Farrell

apps

linux

sysadmin

config

osx

cron

Introducing every, the cron scheduling app written in Perl

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An interview with Peteris Krumins

Dec 18, 2013 by David Farrell

community

powershell

bash

interview

one_liner

We talk about his favourite Perl one liners, publishing books and Perl on Windows!

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The ultimate guide to Windows and Unix file line ending conversion in Perl

Dec 14, 2013 by David Farrell

development

file

linux

windows

powershell

bash

crlf

osx

Think you know how to fix CRLF in one line of Perl? There might be more to it than you think …

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Implementing the singleton pattern in Perl

Dec 11, 2013 by David Farrell

development

object_oriented

object

pattern

gof

Learn when and how to use this classic “gang of four” code pattern

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An interview with Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer

Dec 5, 2013 by David Farrell

community

community

culture

stratopan

cloud

saas

interview

Learn about the tools Jeffrey uses to code in Perl, upcoming Stratopan features and more!

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Wear the cloak of invisibility with OpenVPN and Perl

Dec 2, 2013 by David Farrell

security

linux

useragent

openvpn

screen_scraping

How to covertly screen-scrape behind an encrypted connection and masked identity

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Add Moose-style attribute accessors to your Perl classes

Nov 25, 2013 by David Farrell

development

class

object

attribute

method

typeglob

Writing accessors in vanilla object oriented Perl doesn’t have to lead to verbose boilerplate code

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A Stratopan quick start user guide

Nov 15, 2013 by David Farrell

tooling

sysadmin

config

stratopan

cloud

saas

Learn how to manage your Perl modules in the cloud with Stratopan

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Use roles in object oriented Perl with Role::Tiny

Nov 11, 2013 by David Farrell

development

module

object_oriented

object

role

Get roles / traits with minimal overhead

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