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Use File::Find for recursive directory searches

Htbaa — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:00:03 +0000

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 [...]

Using Perl-Tidy with Notepad++

Htbaa — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:28:47 +0000

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 [...]

Not on internet equals to being death?

Htbaa — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:57:38 +0000

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 [...]

Finished reading: The Definitive Guide to Catalyst

Htbaa — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:59:25 +0000

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 moving to Rackspace Cloud Servers

Htbaa — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:06:33 +0000

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 [...]

My first proper introduction with Mojolicious

Htbaa — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:29:39 +0000

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 [...]

My first Perl 6 code

Htbaa — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:18:42 +0000

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 [...]

PHP 5.2.14 released but don’t get excited yet

Htbaa — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:47:25 +0000

Yesterday PHP 5.2.14 has been released, together with PHP 5.3.3. I used to get excited about PHP updates, but no more. This is because of a number of disappointments I’ve talked about earlier. But that’s not really the reason of why not to get excited. So, why shouldn’t we be excited about PHP 5.2.14? The [...]

Is there a way to share loaded Perl modules amongst users?

Htbaa — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:29:13 +0000

I was wondering if there’s a way to have a Perl process share some commonly used modules (such as DBI, DBIx::Class and Template) amongst different users? I’ve looked at FCGI::Spawn but it didn’t seem to me it was capable of it. What I’d like to do is run a single Perl daemon which has some [...]

How a programming language influences your mood

Htbaa — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:54:14 +0000

For over 3,5 years now I’ve been programming professionally in PHP. First in PHP4 and about half a year later we finally converted to PHP5. At first I was excited because I could use a lot of new features PHP5 offered such as proper OOP but also Zend Framework. I started using Zend Framework from [...]