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 […]
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 […]
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Two Books
I’ve recently received review copies of a couple of new books. Here are the reviews of those books that I have submitted to Amazon. Designing the Internet of Things – Adrian McEwen & Hakim Cassimally (Wiley) I’ve been hearing people talking about “the internet of things” for a few years now. And I’ve always meant […]
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Perl in Banks
An email has flooded in: I came across your presentation ‘Perl in the Enterprise’ and happen to have a burning concern closely related to one of the bullets ‘Banks see <Perl> as a competitive advantage’. I am consulting at a major bank in South Africa, and our team have been using Perl very productively to […]
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Perl Search Revisited
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about a Google Custom Search that I had set up to create a specialised search engine for Perl. Recently I’ve revisited this idea. I’ve given the search engine its own subdomain and I’ve added some new sites to the list of sites that it covers. […]