Nicholas Hubbard articles - 13 total
How I used a named pipe to save memory and prevent crashes (in Perl)
I recently ran into an interesting bug in my Slackware package manager sbozyp. In this post I will...
4 More Unrelated Perl Tidbits
Last year I wrote an article titled 4 Unrelated Perl Tidbits, where I talked about some random Perl...
An Interesting Perl Pattern That Doesn't Work
I recently came up with a pattern that is supposed to use a closure to protect a configuration hash...
Use Dist::Zilla to Create a Perl Distribution
Dist::Zilla (dzil) is a program for creating Perl distributions. While the documentation for dzil is...
How I use Yabsm to Manage my Btrfs Snapshots
YABSM IS DEPRECATED. CONSIDER USING ALTERNATIVES SUCH AS BTRBK OR SNAPPER. I am the author of Yabsm...
Create a Lock File in Perl with File::Temp
A lock can serve many purposes in regards to avoiding race conditions. In this article we will...
Named Subroutine Arguments in Perl
Naming your subroutine arguments has benefits around increasing the readability of your code. Lets...
Create a Daemon in Perl with Schedule::Cron
A daemon is a program that runs in the background for an indefinite period of time. An important...
Perl Project Management with App::plx
App::plx (Plx) is a tool for configuring per-project Perl development environments. Plx has good...
How I use Emacs to write Perl
This post is about how I use Emacs to write Perl. I do not claim to have the best Perl setup of all...
Make Perl Count Arguments
Unlike many programming languages, Perl doesn't check that functions are called with the correct...
4 Unrelated Perl Tidbits
I recently acquired a copy of Programming Perl, often referred to as "The Camel Book" in the Perl...
Testing Code That is Difficult to Test (With Perl)
Code that performs side effects is difficult to test because we need figure out how to sandbox the...