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Tragedy

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
There’s always a moment, in a perfect tragedy, where you dare to hope that maybe the heroes are going to break the surface tension of the plot and escape...

Javascript scoping makes my head hurt

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Who came up with the javascript scoping rules? What were they smoking. Here’s some Noddy Perl that demonstrates what I’m on about: my @subs; for...

Baby's first screencast

almost 4 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
If you follow the Ruby blogs, you will probably have seen a bunch of programmers attempting to do something akin to Haskell’s maybe, or the ObjectiveC...

Marking time...

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
So, it turns out that there’s a recording of my MooseX::Declare talk at the London.pm techmeet last night. And, on listening to it, I sound rather less...

Moose for Ruby programmers

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
‘Moose for Ruby Programmers’ was the programmed title for the talk I gave at the London.pm technical meet on Thursday, but that was something of a stalking...

Modern Perl

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
One of the people who make me think that Perl is still worth knowing is chromatic, the ex-editor of O’Reilly’s perl.com. He’s one of the core team...

Things that may inspire me to hunt and kill you

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Let’s say you’re writing a ruby library. Something you want and expect others to use. Here’s how to reduce those others to incandescent rage: require...

A tip for all programmers

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
It doesn’t matter what language you program in, there’s one very important thing that you should do if you want to get better at your craft. Read...

Perl: Test Infected since 1987

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Here’s something interesting. This is the test directory from the very first version of Perl, released in 1987 and described by Larry as ‘a “replacement...

Writing parsers for fun and convenience

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
One aspect of coming back to Perl for ‘recreational’ programming is that if, like me, you’ve declared war on @_ and boilerplate code, then testing...