A Cautionary Tale

I can never remember exactly how Time::Piece works. But that’s ok because I have documentation.

Huh?

So Time::Piece has been in the Perl core since 5.9.5. I’m running Perl 5.14.2 but I don’t have Time::Piece installed. After ten minutes or so of head-scratching it came to me.

I’m running Fedora. The Fedora […]

CGI.pm vs Templates

I’ve just been involved in a discussion on LinkedIn that I thought deserved a wider audience (I have no idea how well that link works if you’re not a member or or logged in to LinkedIn). A couple of days ago, someone asked for advice on the best way to include HTML in a Perl […]

What is Modern Perl?

I wrote an article for Josette called “What is Modern Perl?” In it, I talk about the different things that people might mean when they talk about Modern Perl and why it’s well worth buying a copy of the new edition of the camel book. After a gap of twelve years, a new edition of […]

Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers (Redux)

Six weeks ago I announced that I’d be running a free one-day course called “Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers” in August. Places on that course were fully booked in less than a day. So I’ve decided to run to course again, two months later. It will still be at Google Campus, and the date is […]