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say “Hello World”
This is a blog. There are many like it but this one is mine. – badly paraphrasing Full Metal Jacket Hi. You might know me. I’m Mark Fowler. No, not the fictional guy from Eastenders or the deceased...
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Testing Perl 5.10.1 RC 1
UPDATE: Since this blog post was written, this got a lot easier with perlbrew. I wrote about this here There’s a new stable release of perl in the works – Perl 5.10.1 – that’s reached “Release...
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What does “ownership” of a module mean?
So, I was contacted by someone yesterday with patches for a module I wrote during my employment at Fotango. I thought it might be a good idea to release these patches, but looking at the module in...
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Testing times
One of my all time favourite things about the CPAN and Perl is that we ship test suites with our distributions that are run before installation. This means that we can be darn sure that not only does...
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The Upper Hand
When coding I quite often find myself having to setup some state temporarily limited to just the block I’m in and the routines the block calls. For way of a simple example, imagine we have a password...
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Test::EnhancedIs
The other day I made an idiot out of myself on IRC. Now this isn’t exactly news, but the way I did so is interesting. It seemed to me that Test::More’s is was unexpectedly failing when it was passed...
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Devel::UseFromCommandLineOnly
On Friday I posted a horrible chunk of code to my blog. With all the scorn I threw about it there’s one bit I didn’t cover however, a sort of saving grace. The second line here: package...
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Saying Thanks
Did you know that recent releases of perl come with a way to send thanks back to the authors of Perl? Neither did I until I saw Paul Fenwick speak at YAPC::Europe this year. Here’s what you’ve got to...
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On Diversity in Tech Communities
One of the advantages of working from home is that I can do more interesting things with my lunch break that simply eat lunch. So, every week for three years I took my daughters to a local sing-a-long...
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