Every so often, a new data serialisation format appears and people get excited about it. Recently, one of those formats is TOON — Token-Oriented Object Notation. As the name suggests, it’s another way of representing the same kinds of data structures that you’d normally store in JSON or YAML: hashes, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans and […]
You might know that I publish books about Perl at Perl School. What you might now know is that I also publish more general technical books at Clapham Technical Press. If you scroll down to the bottom of that page, you’ll see a list of the books that I’ve published. You’ll also see evidence of […]
I write blog posts in a number of different places: Davblog has been my general blog for about twenty years Perl Hacks is where I write about Perl My Substack newsletter is mostly tech stuff but can also wander into entrepreneurship and other topics And most of those posts get syndicated to other places: Tech stuff will […]
Back in May, I wrote a blog post about how I had moved a number of Dancer2 applications to a new server and had, in the process, created a standardised procedure for deploying Dancer2 apps. It’s been about six weeks since I did that and I thought it would be useful to give a little […]
Over the last week or so, as a background task, I’ve been moving domains from an old server to a newer and rather cheaper server. As part of this work, I’ve been standardising the way I deploy web apps on the new server and I thought it might be interesting to share the approach I’m […]
