The Best of Perl Hacks

The Best of Perl Hacks

By Dave Cross

Publication date: 06 Apr 2020

Dave Cross has been writing his Perl Hacks blog for over ten years. This book collects a selection of the best articles from the blog over that time.

  • Introduction
  • YAPC::Europe 2009
  • Moose Or No Moose
  • Greenwich Mean Time
  • Perlanet Improvements
  • The “Without Whom”s
  • Building RPMs From CPAN Distributions
  • META.yml And Building RPMs
  • Crufty Old Perl
  • Perl Books
  • Learning About Traits
  • Marketing Perl
  • Too Easy Or Too Hard
  • An Open Letter To Linux Format
  • YAPC::Europe Report
  • “You Must Hate Version Control Systems”
  • CGI.pm vs Templates
  • A Cautionary Tale
  • Learning From Bad Code
  • DBIC vs DBI
  • Why Corporates Hate Perl
  • Perl Books
  • Removing Modules From Core
  • Misunderstanding Context
  • Perl APIs
  • Dots and Perl
  • Installing Modules
  • Programming Language Usage
  • Perl Usage
  • “I Do Not Want To Use Any Modules”
  • Perl’s Problems
  • Perl Recruitment Thoughts
  • Subroutines & Ampersands
  • Driving a Business With Perl
  • YAPC Europe 2015: A Community Is A Home
  • The Joy of Prefetch
  • Build RPMs Of CPAN Modules
  • The Long Death Of CGI.Pm
  • London Perl Workshop Review
  • Easy PSGI
  • Code Archaeology
  • Taming QMail
  • Updating Ogg::Vorbis::Header
  • YAPC Europe 2016
  • Version Numbers
  • Drawing Traffic Lights With Perl
  • Timeline Diagrams With Perl
  • Genealogical Timelines In Perl and SVG
  • London Perl Workshop Report
  • Two New Modules
  • Introducing People To Perl
  • The Perl Conference In Glasgow
  • Fixing A Bug
  • Please Don’t Use CGI.Pm
  • London Perl Workshop 2018
  • A Subtle Bug
  • PerlCon Europe 2019

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