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Perl Oasis 2012 wrapup

By dagolden | Published: January 17, 2012

Last weekend I attended the Orlando Perl Workshop. While the "hallway track" is one of the best parts of Perl workshops, the talks I saw were also excellent. Here is an overview of the sessions I attended. Doing the Jitterbug Jonathan Leto (dukeleto) presented Jitterbug, a cross language continuous integration tool for git (and written [...]

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Yet another taint mode reminder

By dagolden | Published: October 4, 2011

Schwern just posted "How (not) To Load a Module..." that goes into great depth about the security risk in loading modules. The (not) funny thing is that none of what he's saying is a risk would be one when running in taint mode. Consider "/tmp/foo.pm" with this: Then consider this example of how Module::Load does [...]

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How to find files with Path::Class::Rule

By dagolden | Published: September 13, 2011

Path::Class::Rule is what you get when you imagine the love-child of Path::Class and File::Find::Rule. Here is part of the SYNOPSIS: As you can see, it has the same method-chaining of rule helpers that File::Find::Rule does. However, it's not built on top of File::Find, so you get a real, lazy iterator instead of the File::Find::Rule iterator [...]

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Giving thanks as thanks

By dagolden | Published: August 29, 2011

Ricardo wrote an article "promoting little gifts", which @perlbuzz tweeted as "giving little gifts as thanks". I like that idea, and it inspired me to remind people to please also consider just giving "thanks", too. Sure, I'd love a song or a small ebook (and maybe I should set up a wishlist), but I also [...]

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Code munging with vim: if modifier to if block

By dagolden | Published: August 24, 2011

Not infrequently, I discover I want to turn an if modifier into an if block so I can add extra logic when the conditional is true. I decided to automate that with a vim macro: For it to work, the if modifier has to be on a line of its own (which I usually do [...]

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