Back in May, I spent an afternoon at Silicon MilkRoundabout. Silicon MilkRoundabout is a recruitment fair for techies. It’s specifically aimed at people who want to work for start-ups around the Old Street area (although they aren’t particularly stringent about sticking to that – for example, the BBC were there). We were given a booklet […]
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Data Munging with Perl
Many years ago, I wrote a book called Data Munging with Perl. People were kind enough to say nice things about it. A few people bought copies. I made a bit of money. Recently I re-read it. I thought that some of it was still pretty good. There were some bits, particularly in the early […]
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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 […]
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Misunderstanding Context
Over the last few days I’ve been involved in a discussion on LinkedIn[1]. It has been interesting as it shows how many people still misunderstand many of the intricacies of context and, in particular, how it ties in with the values returned from subroutines. The original question asked why these two pieces of code acted […]