One of the finest Perl (core!) module I’ve been using lately is File::Find. With File::Find it’s possible to traverse through a directory recursively to find anything you want from it. It comes with a number of options to alter the search behavior and a custom callback has to be supplied to determine what to do [...]

I was looking for a way to use Perl::Tidy with Notepad++ so I can format my Perl code from within Notepad++. Luckily for me someone else already figured out how to do this properly. I just had to modify a few small things to make this work for my needs. My environment is a Windows [...]

Almost everyone in their twenties has an existence on the Internet. It’s basically expected you can be found online. So, what I was wondering: can I consider someone of my age, which is to be expected to have some online profile, be dead if nothing can be found online? If intentional I applaud them for [...]

A couple of days ago I finished reading The Definitive Guide to Catalyst which for a technical book (or any at all) I read through quite fast. I’m not going to write a full fledged review about it but I can recommend it to anyone interested in working with Catalyst. For those who don’t know [...]

A month has passed since I’ve moved to a Cloud Server from Rackspace and so far I’m pleased with the whole experience. It did take a bit of tweaking before I got everything working the way I wanted. This mostly consisted of properly configuring PHP FastCGI as it’s a big resource eater. Another help was [...]

The first time I took a look at Mojolicious was almost a year ago if I’m not mistaken. My Perl was really rusty back then and the Mojolicious’ documentation, or rather the lack of it, didn’t help much either. Still, with interest I followed the project through GitHub. Development on the project, and especially the [...]