Stupid open() tricks
Everyone tells you to use a three-argument open(), but there’s a lot more you can do …
brian d foy
brian d foy is a Perl trainer and writer, and a senior editor at Perl.com. He’s the author of Mastering Perl, Mojolicious Web Clients, Learning Perl Exercises, and co-author of Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl and Effective Perl Programming.
Controlling Firefox from Perl
Form submission, scraping, JavaScript execution are all possible
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Rescue legacy code with modulinos
How the modules-as-programs pattern provides a development path for scripts
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Perl Today (February 2014)
brian d foy explores the state of Perl in 2014 by soliciting opinions from various respected Perl programmers.
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How to Tell Your Perl Story (at OSCON)
brian d foy is the author of Mastering Perl, now available in its second edition, as well as several other Perl books. As the founder of Perl mongers, he’s been active in the Perl community for almost 20 years. Ever…
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Lightning Strikes Four Times
by Mike Friedman Good software design principles tell us that we should work to separate unrelated concerns. For example, the popular Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is common in web application designs. In MVC, separate modular components form a model, which…
