Mark Gardner articles - 82 total
Verifying my cryptographic key for Keyoxide
[Verifying my cryptographic key: openpgp4fpr:4dadfefe8e4ad0f92bcbbb8142f3ca898cb08a45]
Perl lightning talk: ”Don’t Fear map and grep”
This week’s Perl and Raku Conference 2022 in Houston was packed with great presentations, and I...
How much is that BLÅHAJ in the (terminal) window?
IKEA’s toy BLÅHAJ shark has become a beloved Internet icon over the past several years. I thought it...
Perl list processing is for hashes, too
This month I started a new job at Alert Logic, a cybersecurity provider with Perl (among many other...
Get out early with Perl statement modifiers
When I first started writing Perl in my early 20’s, I tended to follow a lot of the structured...
Highlighting members of the Perl family
This past year of blogging has introduced me to a wide variety of people in the Perl community. Some...
Perl warnings and the warn function
I mentioned in passing last week that the next major release of Perl, v5.36, is set to enable...
Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should
I remember a brief time in the mid-2000s insisting on so-called “Yoda conditions” in my Perl. I would...
34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday
Friday, December 17, 2021, marked the thirty-fourth birthday of the Perl programming language, and...
A brief note on Log4perl
The Java world had an… interesting weekend when security researchers revealed on December 9 a...
Sweeter Perl exception classes
I mentioned at the Ephemeral Miniconf last month that as soon as I write about one Perl module (or...
Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino
Over the past two years, I’ve gotten back into playing Dungeons & Dragons, the famous tabletop...
Video: “A Year of Being Wrong on the Internet”
I’m busy this week hosting my parents’ first visit to Houston, but I didn’t want to let this Tuesday...
Multiple ways to inheritance in Perl
Inspired by my parents coming to visit at the end of the week, I thought I’d write about how Perl...
This week: The ePhEmeRaL miniconf
After a lot of procrastination, I’ve decided my talk for this week’s ePhEmeRaL miniconf will be...
Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes
At my work, we extensively use the Moose object system to take care of what would ordinarily be very...
Some thoughts on Perl template processing
Template processors and engines are one of those pieces of software where it seems every developer...
Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more
Six months ago I gave an overview of Perl’s list processing fundamentals, briefly describing what...
The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
Look, I get it. You don’t like the Perl programming language or have otherwise disregarded it as...
Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation
Whether learning a programming language, working through a problem, or trying to understand a new...
LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!
Twitter recently recommended a tweet to me (all hail the algorithm) touting what the author viewed as...
Fast Perl module installation with cpm
One of Perl’s cardinal strengths is the depth and variety of add-on modules to extend its...
Everyone’s a (Perl) critic, and you can be too!
The perlcritic tool is often your first defense against “awkward, hard to read, error-prone, or...
A good old-fashioned Perl log analyzer
A recent Lobsters post lauding the virtues of AWK reminded me that although the language is powerful...
Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules
This blog has devoted a fair amount of attention to the popular and multifaceted object-oriented...
Taming the Moose: Method modifiers instead of overrides in object-oriented Perl
Last month I wrote about using Moose’s override function to, well, override a superclass’s method....
Frenemies part 2: What a difference a (Perl) module makes
Last week I explored using the Inline::Perl5 module to port a short Perl script to Raku while still...
Perl & Raku: Best frenemies
The Perl and Raku programming languages have a complicated history together. The latter was...
Privacy and speed with Perl’s Object::Pad
Last week found me exploring Object::Pad as an alternative to the Moo object-oriented framework for...
What’s Next for Object-Oriented Perl?
Introduction: The current state of play Perl has “very minimal” support for...