I was asked to write a guest post for the Built In Perl blog. I wrote something about how I built my site, TwittElection, for the recent UK general election. In the UK we have just had a general election. Over the last few weeks many web sites have sprung up to share information about […]
DBIC Training in Granada
It’s been a while since I’ve run a training course alongside a YAPC. By my calculations, the last time was Riga in 2011. But I’ve been talking to the organisers of this year’s conference and we have plan. I’m going to be running a one-day introductory course on DBIx::Class before the conference (I think it’ll […]
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Subroutines and Ampersands
I’ve had this discussion several times recently, so I thought it was worth writing a blog post so that I have somewhere to point people the next time it comes up. Using ampersands on subroutine calls (&my_sub or &my_sub(…)) is never necessary and can have potentially surprising side-effects. It should, therefore, never be used and […]
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Modern Perl Articles
Back in 2011 I wrote a series of three articles about “Modern Perl” for Linux Format. Although I mentioned all three articles here as they were published, I didn’t post the actual contents of the articles as I wasn’t sure about the copyright situation. But now I suspect that enough time has passed that copyright […]
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Penetration Testing with Perl
I was sent a review copy of Penetration Testing with Perl by Douglas Berdeaux. I really didn’t like it. Here’s the review I’ve been sharing on Amazon and Goodreads. I’ve been wanting to learn a bit about Penetration Testing for a while and as Perl is my programming language of choice this seemed like a […]