Month: January 2014
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The Return of blogs.perl.org
About an hour ago we turned blogs.perl.org back on. There’s also a blog post where we explain what happened in a lot more detail. If you have an account on the site then you will have received an email explaining what you need to do now. Basically, we’ve invalidated all of the passwords so you’ll…
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blogs.perl.org
It seems that last night blogs.perl.org was hacked. I first became aware of it when someone pointed me at this story a few hours ago. As you’ll see, the contents of the mt_author table have been made public. We’re still investigating the extent of the hack. But, as a precaution, we have configured the site…
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Dots and Perl
I was running a training course this week, and a conversation I had with the class reminded me that I have been planning to write this article for many months. There are a number of operators in Perl that are made up of nothing but dots. How many of them can you name? There are…
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Perl APIs
For a lot of programmers out there, Perl has become largely invisible. They just never come across it. That might seem strange to you as you sit inside the Perl community echo chamber reading the Perl Ironman or p5p, but try this simple experiment. Think of a web site that you use and that supplies…