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Magic vs Mundane: Keeping them apart

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
In which your correspondent does magical battle with the guts of Perl and emerges bloodied, but unbowed with a useful principle to code by. Skip to...

Thinking about the virtues

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
I got a bit of stick on IRC last night for some of the choices I’d made when I was writing Test::Class::Sugar, in particular because one of the prerequisites...

Keep calm and carry on my eye

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
This seems like a more appropriate poster somehow: Can we have this in mugs, t-shirts and other formats please? Thanks to Alan Fleming for...

Test::Class::Sugar released

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
I’ve just pushed the second version of Test::Class::Sugar (first discussed here). It’s pretty much as discussed in the original article, but after some...

Freedom is in Peril

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
I’ve just written my first ‘real’ real post for the new Freedom is in Peril website. I’ll try and keep the political stuff on that blog from now...

Another conference season, another dumb sexist

almost 3 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Mum was often the only women [at British Leyland sales conferences]. In those days it was apparently common for presenters to slip the occasional naked...

London.pm Presentation Video

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Back in (crikey) February, I gave a talk at the London Perl Mongers’ technical meeting about Moose for Ruby Programmers and wrote it up here. Mike Whittaker...

Perl: Not just a hobby any more

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Back in January, I wrote that I was choosing Perl to revisit as my language for recreational programming. Quite a bit has happened since then. I gave...

Twice now

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
In Ruby, when you’re doing division on integers, things can get a little counter intuitive. For instance, 6/4 is obviously 1. At least, it is until you...

Perl 5, version 10.1

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
At last! Start your compilers everybody....