Tag Archives: perl programming

Why I sometimes hate require

By dagolden | Published: February 21, 2013

Can you spot the error in this code? Not yet? Here's the error I get compiling it: What the heck? I imported Num, so why is it not allowed? (Spot the error yet?) Here's a hint: I'm using a Mac. Does this make it clearer: Aha! I said "Mooselike" instead of "MooseLike". And the Mac [...]

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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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Adventures in Benchmarking, Part 1

By dagolden | Published: February 7, 2013

I created Path::Tiny because I wanted a faster file path utility. But believing it would be faster isn't the same thing as demonstrating it, so I decided to create some benchmarks. That got complicated, but now I have a pretty nice benchmarking toolkit. This article describes my setup and process and shows results for object [...]

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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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