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Dave Cross writes about Perl. See @davorg for real life stuff.

 London, UK
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Joined March 2016
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The interesting side of using the latest Perl features. perlhacks.com/2024/08/on-the…
On the [b]leading edge - Perl Hacks

On the [b]leading edge - Perl Hacks

We need programmers who like to play on the bleading edge. By trying out new features, they are able to report on problems that they find - and, in doing so, improve the experience for the many...

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I'm gonna be doing some updating... dev.to/davorg/bowing-to-the-…
Bowing to the inevitable

Bowing to the inevitable

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

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New blog post: Deploying Dancer Apps perlhacks.com/2024/05/deploy…

Deploying Dancer Apps - Perl Hacks

Over the last week or so, as a background task, I've been moving domains from an old server to a newer and rather cheaper server. As part of this work, I've been standardising the way I deploy web...

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I've been giving talks for a very long time. perlhacks.com/2024/04/collec…
Collecting talks - Perl Hacks

Collecting talks - Perl Hacks

I gave my first public talk sometime between the 22nd and 24th September 2000. It was at the first YAPC::Europe which was held in London between those dates. I can't be any more precise because the...

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A new CPAN module - Amazon::Sites perlhacks.com/2024/03/amazon…
Amazon Links and Buttons - Perl Hacks

Amazon Links and Buttons - Perl Hacks

I've spent more than a reasonable amount of time thinking about Amazon links over the last three or four years. It started with the Perl School web site. Obviously, I knew that the book page needed a...

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People still deploy Perl code as CGI programs. How can we help them move on to something more modern? perlhacks.com/2024/02/the-pr…
The present isn’t evenly distributed either - Perl Hacks

The present isn’t evenly distributed either - Perl Hacks

The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed - William Gibson The quotation above was used by Tim O'Reilly a lot around the time that Web 2.0 got going. Over recent months, I've...

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I've started using GitHub Organisations to organise my Perl projects. perlhacks.com/2023/08/github…
GitHub Organisations - Perl Hacks

GitHub Organisations - Perl Hacks

I've mentioned before how much I enjoyed Olaf Alders' talk, Whither Perl, at the Perl and Raku Conference in Toronto last month. I think it's well worth spending forty minutes watching it. It...

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What happened in Toronto last week. perlhacks.com/2023/07/the-pe…

The Perl and Raku Conference, Toronto 2023 - Perl Hacks

It's been over twenty years since I spoke at a conference in North America. That was at OSCON in San Diego. I've actually never spoken at a YAPC, TPC or TPRC in North America. I have the standard...

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I finally (almost) finished a project I started two and a half years ago. perlhacks.com/2023/05/missio…
Mission (Almost) Accomplished - Perl Hacks

Mission (Almost) Accomplished - Perl Hacks

[This post might sound like I'm angry at people making it hard to make progress on some things. That's not the case at all. I realise completely that people have limited time and they get to choose...

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Building Planets with Perlanet and GitHub perlhacks.com/2023/04/buildi…

Building Planets with Perlanet and GitHub - Perl Hacks

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million...

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Some recent hacking... perlhacks.com/2023/03/improv…
Improvements to Planet Perl and Perlanet - Perl Hacks

Improvements to Planet Perl and Perlanet - Perl Hacks

This is a story of one of those nice incidents where something starts off simple, then spirals out of control for a while but, in the end, everyone wins. On Reddit, a few days ago, someone asked 'Is...

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Updating GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions [Some Perl content :-)] dev.to/davorg/updating-githu…

Updating GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions

Building a simple web site that is updated daily using GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions

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Writing a CPAN module that talks to ChatGPT (with a little help from ChatGPT). dev.to/davorg/writing-a-cpan…

Writing a CPAN module that talks to ChatGPT

ChatGPT exposes an API, but there’s no CPAN module for taking advantage of that. Let’s put that right...

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Another useful Docker container. perlhacks.com/2022/10/contai…
Containers for Coverage - Perl Hacks

Containers for Coverage - Perl Hacks

I've been building Docker containers again. And I think you'll find this one a little more useful than the Perlanet one I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Several years ago I got into Travis CI and...

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Automatically rejecting GitHub PRs. perlhacks.com/2022/10/not-th…
Not that PR, thanks - Perl Hacks

Not that PR, thanks - Perl Hacks

It's October. And that means that Hacktoberfest has started. If you can get four pull requests accepted on other people's code repositories during October then you can win a t-shirt. In many ways, I...

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How and why I created a Docker container for Perlanet. perlhacks.com/2022/10/buildi…

Building a Perlanet Container - Perl Hacks

I'm a dinosaur who still believes that web feeds are a pretty neat idea. I wrote and maintain perlanet (a Perl program for aggregating web feeds into a new feed - and building a web site based on...

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I wrote something for the Stack Overflow blog. stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/0…
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I hope this is what you've all been waiting for. Introducing Perl Hacks merchandise. redbubble.com/shop/ap/115015…
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Making it easier for people to find tutorials for CPAN modules. dev.to/davorg/cpan-module-tu…

CPAN Module Tutorials

Making it easier to learn how to use CPAN modules

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Processing dates and times in Perl. #perl #dates #times dev.to/davorg/processing-dat…
Processing dates and times with Perl

Processing dates and times with Perl

Perl has some great modern tools for working with dates and times

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