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Porting a Dancer plugin to Dancer2

Jan 10, 2020 by Christopher White

development
dancer
dancer2
perl
perl-5
perl-programming
web-development
porting
plugin

How I ported a plugin without having to know it all first

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Inside Perl 5.12

Apr 20, 2010 by chromatic

community
perl-5
perl-5-12
perl-programming

Perl 5.12 has just come out. A rejuvenated development process helps ensure a bright future for Perl as it enters its third decade of making easy things easy and hard things possible. Here’s what you can expect when you upgrade…

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A Website in a Minute Using Dancer, the Effortless Web Framework

Apr 6, 2010 by perldotcom

web
cpan
dancer
perl
perl-5
perl-programming
web-development

While Perl has a few heavy hitters in the web framework world (Catalyst, Jifty, CGI::App), sometimes they can seem like overkill. When writing a light web service or a high-end but not-as-complex website, you might want something smaller and simpler….

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perl5i Makes More Simple Things Simple

Mar 23, 2010 by Michael Schwern

development
perl
perl-5
perl-programming
perl5i

Suppose that you want to load a module dynamically (you have the name in a scalar), then alias a function from that module to a new name in another class. In other words, you want a renaming import. How do…

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Idioms, or How to Write Perlish Perl

Mar 16, 2010 by chromatic

development
idioms
objects
parameters
perl-5
perl-programming
schwartzian-transform

Any language—programming or natural—develops idioms, or common patterns of expression. The earth revolves, but we speak of the sun rising or setting. We talk of clever hacks and nasty hacks and slinging code. We ping each other on IRC to…

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More Code, Less Cruft: Managing Distributions with Dist::Zilla

Mar 9, 2010 by Ricardo Signes

tooling
cpan
dist-zilla
distributions
perl
perl-5
perl-programming

Every software distribution is a bunch of files written and maintained by programmers. The files are of three types: code, documentation, and crap—though this distinction is too subtle. Much of the documentation and code is crap, too. It’s pointless. It’s…

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Charting Data at the Bottom of the World

May 4, 2006 by Alex Gough

graphics
antarctic-perl
antarctic-research
chart-module
charting
graphing
perl-graphs
perl-programming

I have an odd job: I’m the only programmer for about 500 miles. I look after experiments on a remote Antarctic research station and look after the data they produce. As well as the scientific stuff knocking about, we…

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Perl Design Patterns, Part 3

Aug 15, 2003 by Phil Crow

development
patterns
patterns-in-perl
perl
perl-programming

This is the third (and final) article in a series which form one Perl programmer’s response to the book Design Patterns (also known as the Gang of Four book or simply as GoF, because four authors wrote it). As…

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