After implementing the Hello World with plain CGI, the next step is to implement the Echo.

Vienna.pm have funded me to work 50 hours on Perl 6. After some discussion, we decided I would first work on improving the thread pool scheduler, and then move on to continuing the work around non-blocking await, a feature of the upcoming Perl … Continue reading →

pre { border:1px solid #AADDAA; border-radius:3px; padding:10px; background: #EEFFEE} I introduce Easy C/C++ Binding using SPVM . In Perl, C/C++ binding is very very hard work. If you use SPVM, the work become very easy. If You don't yet know...

The other day I ran across a pattern in our codebase at $work, and I was mightily impressed.  It solved a problem I had run into before, but the solution here was much more elegant than mine, so I’m...

Regardless of your level of involvement with coding, sooner or later the time comes when you have to choose between various implementations for a specific task. Depending on the situation, there can be multitude of criteria to help your decision, and performance is usually one of them.

Luckily, Perl 5 comes with a Benchmark module, that can help you to quickly compare alternative solutions, and thus help you do a better job.

In this article, I'll show you how this module helped us to improve the MD5 calculation logic of Rex while making sure we are not slowing things down.

Yesterday I spent a little over an hour finally figuring out how to detect a file based on its contents in vim. It’s pretty easy!

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Act Voyager Name: Theo van Hoesel Amount Requested: USD 7,500 Synopsis A Modern rebuild of the...

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling Name Timo Paulssen Amount Requested: 7,500 USD Synopsis Rakudo on...

Last time I had a requirement of a customer, who wants to connect OTRS with the GitHub account of the company. Because I think this might be also an interesting Use Case for you, I’m writing this small blog article and show you, how to create an issue in GitHub via OTRS, to receive the […]

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The documentation on setting up a linked server is overly complex in SAP’s documentation and doesn’t actually tell you what you need to do. This is rather typical of SAP’s IQ documentation unfortunately. Setting up the linked server is easy … Continue reading →

Hello fellow Perl (and potentially Vim) users! There's an open issue on the vim-perl issue tracker about how the current syntax highlighting is inconsistent in how it highlights chained method calls, which currently looks like this: 1 use strict; 2...

Hey everyone, Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week. Enjoy!...

Recently my coworker Andy Ruder was complaining that he often reached for grep when filtering JSON, and I offered to give him some tips. This post is an expansion of what I told him.

It’s been a good while since I posted part 1 of this little series. In the meantime, I paid a visit to the Swiss Perl Workshop, situated in a lovely hotel in the beautiful village of Villars. Of course, I was working … Continue reading →