Dave Cross

Recently, Gabor ran a poll in a Perl Facebook community asking which version of Perl people used in...

Dave Cross

Earlier this week, I read a post from someone who failed a job interview because they used a hash...

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Back in January, I wrote a blog post about adding JSON-LD to your web pages to make it easier for...

Dave Cross

Last summer, I wrote a couple of posts about my lightweight, roll-your-own approach to deploying PSGI...

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Like most developers, I have a mental folder labelled “useful little tools I’ll probably never...

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You might know that I publish books about Perl at Perl School. What you might now know is that I also...

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I write blog posts in a number of different places: Davblog has been my general blog for about...

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Last week, I wrote a blog post about how I gave new life to an old domain by building a new website...

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At the end of my last post, we had a structure in place that used GitHub Actions to run a workflow...

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Many thanks to Dave Cross for providing an initial implementation of a PPC index page. – Perl...

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If you have a website, then it’s very likely that you would like as many people as possible to see...

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The London Perl Mongers have had a website for a very long time. Since some time in 1998, I think. At...

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When I first wrote about my pointless personal side projects a few months ago, I used the software I...

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Last weekend, we had a very successful (and very enjoyable) London Perl Workshop. After a five-year...

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After a break of five years, the London Perl Workshop returns next weekend. It’s been twenty years...

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Over the last few months, I’ve been dabbling in using AI to generate or improve code. I have a...

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We need programmers who like to play on the bleading edge. By trying out new features, they are able...

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Back in May, I wrote a blog post about how I had moved a number of Dancer2 applications to a new...

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One of the most popular posts I’ve written in recent months was the one where I talked about all the...

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Data Munging with Perl was published in February 2001. That was over 23 years ago. It’s even 10 years...

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Over the last week or so, as a background task, I’ve been moving domains from an old server to a...

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I gave my first public talk sometime between the 22nd and 24th September 2000. It was at the first...

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I’ve spent more than a reasonable amount of time thinking about Amazon links over the last three or...

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I can’t be the only programmer who does this. You’re looking for an online service to fill some need...

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The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed – William Gibson The quotation...

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You might remember that I’ve been taking an interest in GitHub Actions for the last year or so (I...

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I’ve mentioned before how much I enjoyed Olaf Alders’ talk, Whither Perl, at the Perl and Raku...

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It’s been over twenty years since I spoke at a conference in North America. That was at OSCON in San...

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[This post might sound like I’m angry at people making it hard to make progress on some things....

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...