How to test Perl roles without creating test classes

Oct 16, 2014 by David Farrell

development

object

test_more

role_tiny

unit

mock

fake

role_basic

bless

sub

Don’t waste time writing test classes, test the role directly

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Hello berrybrew, the Strawberry Perl version manager

Oct 10, 2014 by David Farrell

apps

windows

perlbrew

config

berrybrew

strawberry_perl

A fruitier perlbrew for Windows

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Neutralize Shellshock by patching Bash with Perl

Oct 5, 2014 by David Farrell

security

bash

perl

shellshock

fix

bashfix

Unsupported Linux version? Upgrade Bash now

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What's new on CPAN - September 2014

Oct 3, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

weather

hmac

pirate_bus

text

analytics

dns

beer

rex

Our curated guide to September’s new CPAN uploads

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Shellshock and Perl

Sep 26, 2014 by David Farrell

security

perl

shellshock

exploit

bug

vulnerability

env

system

exec

Understanding the Shellshock bug what it means for Perl

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Easily check your IP address with Perl

Sep 18, 2014 by David Farrell

web

ip

address

ipinfo

curlmyip

geo_ip

geolocate

maxmind

The WWW::curlmyip module is an API for curlmyip.com

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Get a weather report at the terminal with Perl

Sep 11, 2014 by David Farrell

development

api

weather

wundergound

script

terminal

command_line

WWW::Wunderground::API makes it easy to pull weather data for your area

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Analyzing GitHub with the search API

Sep 5, 2014 by David Farrell

data

github

git

docker

search

api

net_github

Net::GitHub makes it easy to search GitHub

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What's new on CPAN August 2014

Sep 2, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

dist_zilla

pcduino

appium

bandcamp

stripe

future

bloom_filter

iod

arduino

raspberry_pi

unicode

A curated look at August’s new CPAN uploads

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Facing the music with Perl

Aug 29, 2014 by brian d foy

data

sysadmin

cd

file_find

music

apple

itunes

metadata

file_copy

digest_md5

A few Perl modules make it easy

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Who has the best package manager? Part one

Aug 21, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

cpan

metacpan

npm

pypi

rubygems

package_manager

Who has the best package manager and what we can we learn from all of them

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Celebrate CPAN day on August 16th

Aug 13, 2014 by David Farrell

community

cpan

module

github

distribution

cpanday

pause

celebration

Give back to the community on CPAN day

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Rescue legacy code with modulinos

Aug 7, 2014 by brian d foy

development

module

package

modulino

caller

main

test_more

How the modules-as-programs pattern provides a development path for scripts

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Parse Excel with ease using Perl

Aug 5, 2014 by David Farrell

data

cpan

excel

xls

xlsx

libre

office

open

read

spreadsheet_read

Spreadsheet::Read makes parsing spreadsheets too easy

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What's new on CPAN July 2014

Aug 1, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

mojolicious

amazon

hbase

pcduino

gnupg

git

aws

docker

duckduckgo

Our curated guide to July’s new CPAN uploads

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Your users deserve better than Disqus

Jul 29, 2014 by David Farrell

community

security

disqus

comments

privacy

Why Disqus is not the commenting system you’re looking for

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Create static web apps with Wget

Jul 22, 2014 by David Farrell

apps

app

mvc

static

perl

framework

wget

recursive

recursion

webapp

An alternative to Wallflower

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Generate static websites from dynamic Perl web apps

Jul 15, 2014 by David Farrell

web

nginx

mvc

static

web

wallflower

psgi

framework

App::Wallflower generates static apps from PSGI applications

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HTML pro-parsing tips

Jul 10, 2014 by David Farrell

data

html

xml

parse

web

libxml2

scrape

xml_libxml

A few tips for parsing HTML with XML::LibXML

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What's new on CPAN - June 2014

Jul 3, 2014 by David Farrell

cpan

module

stratopan

dancer

mojolicious

amazon

raygun

css

go

rabbitmq

oeis

cgi

dist_zilla

paypal

jenkins

Our curated guide to June’s new CPAN uploads

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