I'm speaking at the London Perl Workshop 2016

by David Farrell

community

lpw

london

Join us for an exciting day of technical talks and fun

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How to upload a script to CPAN

by David Farrell

cpan

distribution

metacpan

cpan-testers

toolchain

Share your code with others via CPAN

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What's new on CPAN - October 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

tibia

pandoc

tnt

bread-board

raspberry-pi

png

netfilter

text-xslate

ajv

bson

test2

A curated look at October's new CPAN uploads

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How to empty a file with Perl

by David Farrell

data

truncate

open

filehandle

vim

As easy as you'd expect it to be

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What's new on CPAN - September 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

drac

oozie

monzo

cassandra

keystone

zstd

dbic

duckduckgo

json-schema

A curated look at September's new CPAN uploads

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Hacktoberfest is here

by brian d foy

community

perl

github

pull-request

git

digitalocean

hacktoberfest

ghojo

Send those Perl GitHub pull requests!

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Don't forget to #Perl

by David Farrell

community

twitter

hashtag

Help users find Perl related tweets more easily

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5 things I learned from Learning Perl 7th Edition

by David Farrell

community

learning-perl

oreilly

brian-d-foy

A surprisingly in-depth book for beginners

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Using bit arrays with large integers

by David Farrell

data

bigint

bit-array

bitmask

integer

memory

Testing huge bit arrays with Perl

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What's new on CPAN - August 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

farmhash

medium

xisbn

mailgun

opan

statsite

band-in-a-box

imager

monorail

kinesis

facebook

template-pure

A curated look at August's new CPAN uploads

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The History of the Schwartzian Transform

by brian d foy

community

perl

lisp

randal-schwartz

schwartzian-transform

alpine-perl-workshop

A complex sort with a complex history

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Save space with bit arrays

by David Farrell

data

bit-array

bitwise

binary

boolean

bigint

integer

An old school data structure that efficiently stores data

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Identify slow code with Devel::Timer

by David Farrell

development

devel-timer

benchmark

refactor

optimize

speed

How timing statements can help you pinpoint bottlenecks

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What's new on CPAN - July 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

socket.io

powershell

mailchimp

readonly

libffi

libpostal

apache

ieee754

A curated look at July's new CPAN uploads

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Building a UTF-8 encoder in Perl

by David Farrell

data

unicode

utf8

encode

decode

binary

bitmask

codepoint

Learn UTF-8 by encoding it yourself

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Announcing Geo::libpostal

by David Farrell

data

libpostal

geocode

openstreetmap

Perl bindings for libpostal, the address parsing library

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What's new on CPAN - June 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

sqlformat

runkeeper

plack

eav

svg

xml

u2f

pdfunit

ham

wordbrain

findagrave

A curated look at June's new CPAN uploads

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Write multiline programs at the terminal

by David Farrell

development

here-doc

perl

terminal

bash

less

man

http-tiny

Using the shell here-doc for throwaway programs

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Untangling subroutine attributes

by David Farrell

development

attributes

symbol_table

typeglob

lvalue

How they work and how to implement your own custom versions

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The road to a 55x speedup with XS

by David Farrell

development

xs

c

uri_encode_xs

uri_escape

percent_encoding

optimization

benchmark

The power of C with the pleasure of Perl

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What's new on CPAN - May 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

msgpuck

gtk3

google

ioctl

uri_escape

tor

dnsmadeeasy

qmail

pem

ffi

A curated look at May's new CPAN uploads

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Promoting Perl community articles

by David Farrell

community

ruby

perl

perly_bot

reddit

twitter

stackoverflow

perlmonks

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Displaying the Git branch in the terminal prompt with and without Perl

by David Farrell

development

git

branch

terminal

perl

prompt

bash

sed

Where am I again? No more typing "git branch"

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Perl Jam VI: April Trolls

by brian d foy

community

perl

core

random

modulus

libc

security

Perl's ignored security problems, j/k but srsly this time

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What's new on CPAN - April 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

pinterest

google_maps

backblaze

systemd

leftpad

blowfish

tor

tzfile

A curated look at April's new CPAN uploads

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Fixing a sluggish Linux after suspend-resume

by David Farrell

apps

linux

cpupower

pstate

suspend

sleep

resume

governor

The cpupower program can resolve throttled machines

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How to parse binary data with Perl

by David Farrell

data

binary

unpack

png

tzfile

olsen

zoneinfo

Parsing binary data is easy with unpack

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What's new on CPAN - March 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

robinhood

log

acme

lets_encrypt

team_city

pub_nub

pushover

json

mce

A curated look at March's new CPAN uploads

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Perl Jam VI: The Return of the Camel

by brian d foy

community

perl

core

security

Perl's ignored security problems

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Prevent harmful Linux updates with versionlock

by David Farrell

apps

fedora

yum

dnf

linux

versionlock

ubuntu

debian

How to avoid breaking software updates

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