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Alternative to Test::NoWarnings

By dagolden | Published: February 25, 2013

The Test::NoWarnings module is very helpful for detecting subtle errors in your code. Unfortunately, by default, it does its reporting in an END block, which doesn't play nicely with Test::More's done_testing() function, which I use a lot. There has been an open ticket since 2009 and nothing has been done. There is a workaround, but [...]

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Crossing the Perl Rubicon

By dagolden | Published: February 17, 2013

Yes, this is another blog post reacting to Matt S. Trout's Pumpkin Perl idea. (His followups are here and here.) I've considered a long, thoughtful reply about what I see as the problems Perl 5 faces, why various proposals I've heard fall short, and what I think is meaningful for the future of Perl 5. [...]

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Goodbye Path::Class, hello Path::Tiny

By dagolden | Published: January 30, 2013

I like Path::Class, but it's clunky and slow. So I wrote Path::Tiny to scratch my itch. It's smaller (roughly half the lines of code), comes in a single file, and is generally faster. Among other things, it has lots of handy UTF-8 input and output methods. The downside is that it's less portable and less [...]

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My second week of Dancer, now with queues and transactional email

By dagolden | Published: December 18, 2012

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about my initial efforts with Dancer, Xslate and Bootstrap. Last week, I added the ability to send password reset emails. In the process, I've learned how to write Dancer plugins. Designing a password reset system Since I've never done it before, I decided to reinvent the wheel and make [...]

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My first week of Dancer, Xslate and Bootstrap

By dagolden | Published: December 7, 2012

As I mentioned last week, I've started working with Dancer in earnest. This week, I climbed three learning curves at the same time: Dancer, Xslate and Bootstrap. Skeleton before template I started off with the incredibly-handy "Dancer Cowbell" template by A. Gordon, which is a complete skeleton app that brings together Dancer, Template::Toolkit, Bootstrap, and [...]

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