19 days ago by dagolden

My last post showed historical Perl 5 release cycles, but comments I got on and off the blog suggested that my vaguely positive sentiments about the official support policy were misunderstood. This post expands and clarifies my view. I have redone my Perl 5 release cycle graph again with a few chang ...

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19 days ago by dagolden

My last post showed historical Perl 5 release cycles, but comments I got on and off the blog suggested that my vaguely positive sentiments about the official support policy were misunderstood. This post expands and clarifies my view. I have redone my Perl 5 release cycle graph again with a few chang ...

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21 days ago by dagolden

Beginning with Perl 5, version 12, the Perl 5 language began an annual release cycle, with a new stable release around May of each year. Beginning with version 14, the Perl 5 maintainers also announced a formal support policy and ended support for version 10. This is a significant change from the hi ...

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21 days ago by dagolden

Beginning with Perl 5, version 12, the Perl 5 language began an annual release cycle, with a new stable release around May of each year. Beginning with version 14, the Perl 5 maintainers also announced a formal support policy and ended support for version 10. This is a significant change from the hi ...

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24 days ago by dagolden

Last weekend I attended the Orlando Perl Workshop. While the "hallway track" is one of the best parts of Perl workshops, the talks I saw were also excellent. Here is an overview of the sessions I attended. Doing the Jitterbug Jonathan Leto (dukeleto) presented Jitterbug, a cross language continuous ...

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24 days ago by dagolden

Last weekend I attended the Orlando Perl Workshop. While the "hallway track" is one of the best parts of Perl workshops, the talks I saw were also excellent. Here is an overview of the sessions I attended. Doing the Jitterbug Jonathan Leto (dukeleto) presented Jitterbug, a cross language continuous ...

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129 days ago by dagolden

Schwern just posted "How (not) To Load a Module..." that goes into great depth about the security risk in loading modules. The (not) funny thing is that none of what he's saying is a risk would be one when running in taint mode. Consider "/tmp/foo.pm" with this: package foo; print "Loaded foo\n"; 1; ...

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150 days ago by dagolden

Path::Class::Rule is what you get when you imagine the love-child of Path::Class and File::Find::Rule. Here is part of the SYNOPSIS: use Path::Class::Rule; my $rule = Path::Class::Rule->new; # match anything $rule->file->size(">10k"); # add/chain rules # iterator interface my $next = $rule->iter( @d ...

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165 days ago by dagolden

Ricardo wrote an article "promoting little gifts", which @perlbuzz tweeted as "giving little gifts as thanks". I like that idea, and it inspired me to remind people to please also consider just giving "thanks", too. Sure, I'd love a song or a small ebook (and maybe I should set up a wishlist), but I ...

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170 days ago by dagolden

Not infrequently, I discover I want to turn an if modifier into an if block so I can add extra logic when the conditional is true. # from this do_something() if condition(); # to this if ( condition() ) { do_something(); } I decided to automate that with a vim macro: map ,if V:s/\(\s*\) if \(.*\);/\ ...

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