Category Archives: perl programming

Will CPAN Testers keep doubling every year?

A little over a year ago, the CPAN Testers 2.0 beta went live. The new "Metabase" server started accepting reports by web submission instead of the previous method of email-based reports. In the April CPAN Testers Summary, Barbie noted that CPAN Testers has nearly reached 12 million reports submitted. I was recently looking at some [...]

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Parallel Perl Pupils Petition PAUSE

Today I saw about half-a-dozen suspiciously similar PAUSE ID requests, apparently from students taking a parallel programming course from University of La Laguna in Spain Tenerife. After little Google searching, I suspect it might be this course: "Programación en Paralelo II", taught by CPAN author casiano. I'm surprised and pleased to see a course like [...]

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CPAN Testers Metabase back online

I'm pleased to say that after weathering Amazon's EC2 outage, I've got the CPAN Testers Metabase server back online and accepting reports. If you've been building up a backlog, please throttle your uploads. I apologize for the interruption. Over the next month or two, I'll be making some changes to make sure that CPAN Testers [...]

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Optimizing Modern Perl

No, I'm not talking about code (but it made you look, didn't it!) — I'm talking about optimizing the search for "modern perl", because right now it sucks. Give it a try: Search "modern perl" on Google Search "modern perl" on Bing Search "modern perl" on Yahoo Search "modern perl" on DuckDuckGo Sure, chromatic's blog [...]

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Is Javascript the new Perl?

I saw a Javascript/JQuery presentation, The JQuery Divide, by Rebecca Murphey on Hacker News that struck me as remarkably similar to complaints I've heard about Perl development. The jQuery Divide View more presentations from Rebecca Murphey Look at this graphic from p. 34 -- rewind the clock to the late 1990's and replace Javascript with [...]

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