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 …
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 …
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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 …
Rakudo Star, a useful, usable, “early adopter” distribution of Perl 6, was released today. And later this evening a MSI installer for Windows was released. I immediately installed it on my laptop after I had fetched the installer and started up Rakudo REPL, an interactive Perl 6 shell. After a quick peek in the Using …