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By Perl Hacks on Jul 20, 2019
It’s only two weeks until I head to Riga for PerlCon 2019. I thought it was worthwhile posting a quick update confirming that I was going and telling you what I would be doing there. Firstly, I’ve previously mentioned that I was planning to run m...
By TechCrunch on May 13, 2019 in: Finance, Government, Policy, Real Estate, articles, business, economy, energy, Facebook, finance, real estate, technology
How founders are taking on housing costs worldwide.
By Boing Boing on Apr 5, 2019 in: Funny
If you run most paint-spatters through OCR software, it will generate valid perl programs. The discovery -- documented in this SIGBOVIK white-paper by Colin McMillen and Tim Toady -- came about as the result of Jake Archibald's snarky twitter re...
By Perl Hacks on Mar 28, 2019 in: Programming
I’m not sure that I’ll have time to do these every week, but here are my answers to this week’s two Perl Weekly Challenges. Challenge #1 Write a script to replace the character ‘e’ with ‘E’ in the string ‘Perl Weekly Challenge’...
By Perl Hacks on Jan 26, 2019
The European Perl Conference this year is going to be held in Riga in August. That might seem a long way away, but it’s never too early to start thinking about these things. For example the conference web site went live earlier this week, enabling...
By Perl Hacks on Jan 9, 2019 in: Programming, programming
Earlier this week, I saw this code being recommended on Stack Overflow. The code contains a nasty, but rather subtle bug. The version I saw has been fixed now, but I thought there were some interesting lessons to learn by looking at the problems in s...
By Perl Hacks on Sep 30, 2018 in: Programming
I fixed a bug earlier this week. Ok, actually, I introduced a bug and then spent the next few hours tracking it down and fixing it – but that doesn’t sound quite so positive, does it? I thought it might be interesting to talk you through the bug...