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Too Easy or Too Hard
September 29, 2010 – 7:28 PM
We hear a lot of people complaining that programming in Perl is too difficult, but I think that a lot of these problems stem from people making the opposite assumption - that writing Perl is easier than it actually is....
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Crufty Old Perl
March 11, 2010 – 6:05 PM
It's eighteen months since I wrote "Why Corporates Hate Perl" and it's worth pointing out that the company I discussed in that article which was dropping Perl in favour of PHP and Java is still employing as many good Perl...
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A Subway Metaphor
October 14, 2009 – 9:38 PM
Many years ago I read a science fiction story which has always stayed with me - although I'm buggered if I can remember the title or the author.It was set in the not too distant future. Another new line was...
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Building Web Sites with Perl
September 30, 2009 – 1:13 PM
Over on my other blog last night I wrote a piece about how building simple web sites has never been easier. I talked about how it's really simple to use something like Wordpress or Drupal to build a web site...
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Perl Twitter Feed
September 8, 2009 – 5:03 PM
Last August, when I was writing my talk Proud to Use Perl for YAPC::Europe, I wanted to get a feel for what real people were actually saying about Perl. It's all very well claiming that people say Perl is dead,...
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What is Wrong With this Picture?
June 10, 2009 – 3:11 PM
sub do_something () { my $parameter = shift; ... } I've just found a number of subroutines defined this way in the code that I'm working on. I discovered the problem because I started getting errors about "too many...
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CPAN Web Feeds
June 5, 2009 – 7:22 PM
I'm still thinking about adding stuff to this blog. I'd like to add some web feeds to the sidebar. In particular, I'd like a feed of my CPAN uploads. I don't expect it to be a particularly busy feed (although...
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Testing Syntax Highlighting
June 4, 2009 – 9:08 PM
Right. I think I might have got this cracked now. Here's some Perl code. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "Hello World\n"; That's pretty cool, isn't it. I wonder what it'll look like in the web feed. I'll try to...
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Syntax Highlighting
June 4, 2009 – 1:11 PM
One of the nice things about moving away from use.perl to your own site is that you can install whatever toys you want.I'll eventually get round to posting code on this blog. And when I do it would be nice...
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