Displaying the Git branch in the terminal prompt with and without Perl

by David Farrell

development

git

branch

terminal

perl

prompt

bash

sed

Where am I again? No more typing "git branch"

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Perl Jam VI: April Trolls

by brian d foy

community

perl

core

random

modulus

libc

security

Perl's ignored security problems, j/k but srsly this time

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What's new on CPAN - April 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

pinterest

google_maps

backblaze

systemd

leftpad

blowfish

tor

tzfile

A curated look at April's new CPAN uploads

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Fixing a sluggish Linux after suspend-resume

by David Farrell

apps

linux

cpupower

pstate

suspend

sleep

resume

governor

The cpupower program can resolve throttled machines

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How to parse binary data with Perl

by David Farrell

data

binary

unpack

png

tzfile

olsen

zoneinfo

Parsing binary data is easy with unpack

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What's new on CPAN - March 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

robinhood

log

acme

lets_encrypt

team_city

pub_nub

pushover

json

mce

A curated look at March's new CPAN uploads

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Perl Jam VI: The Return of the Camel

by brian d foy

community

perl

core

security

Perl's ignored security problems

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Prevent harmful Linux updates with versionlock

by David Farrell

apps

fedora

yum

dnf

linux

versionlock

ubuntu

debian

How to avoid breaking software updates

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What is the Perl Core?

by David Farrell

managing_perl

perl

core

standard_library

module

cpan

perldoc

osx

ubuntu

fedora

Unfortunately there's more than one way to package it

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Controlling insanity by parsing IR codes with Linux::IRPulses

by Timm Murray

hardware

perl

ir

linux_irpulses

lirc

remote

raspberry_pi

Parsing IR remote codes

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What's new on CPAN - February 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

walmart

wordpress

huffman

ticketmaster

git

scientist

catalyst

A curated look at February's new CPAN uploads

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Netanel Rubin's Perl Jam circus

by David Farrell

security

chaos_communication_congress

ccc

black_hat

netanel_rubin

infosec

Responding to a misguided attack on Perl

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An introduction to Tmux

by David Farrell

apps

command_line

multiplexer

screen

sysadmin

terminal

terminator

tmux

How to get started with the open source terminal multiplexer

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Magical tied scalars

by brian d foy

development

tie

scalar

callback

cycle

mastering_perl

Subvert and simplify code with tied scalars

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What's new on CPAN - January 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

github

lua

rpm

sdcard

old_site

A curated look at January's new CPAN uploads

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Get an in-browser remote desktop with Mojolicious and noVNC

by Joel Berger

web

mojolicious

websockets

novnc

old_site

Using Mojolicious as a TCP/WebSocket Bridge

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Twitter as a datastore

by brian d foy

web

math

social_media

net_twitter

old_site

Using social media platforms for computing applications

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What's new on CPAN - December 2015

by David Farrell

cpan

recaptcha

lets_encrypt

frundis

parsito

dbgp

dna

dijkstra

old_site

A curated look at December's new CPAN uploads

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Save time with compile tests

by David Farrell

testing

module

require

class_load

old_site

Checking everything compiles should be the first test

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How to get Perl 6 now

by David Farrell

perl6

linux

windows

rakudo

osx

panda

old_site

Installation instructions for Linux, OSX and Windows

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Quick tip: git push origin hamster?

by David Farrell

apps

git

symbolic

ref

master

branch

old_site

Making git do you what mean with symbolic references

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Modern Perl 4th edition, a review

by David Farrell

community

cpan

chromatic

pragmatic_bookshelf

old_site

It gets better and better

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Kitchen coding nightmares: JavaScript scope

by David Farrell

development

perl

var

es6

strict

requirejs

jshint

old_site

Some JavaScript gotchas and solutions

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Create GitHub files automatically with Dist::Zilla

by David Farrell

development

cpan

module

config

pause

dzil

old_site

Automate the boring stuff, help others

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What's new on CPAN - November 2015

by David Farrell

cpan

phantomjs

dynamodb

zendesk

lz4

handlebars

consul

tvmaze

old_site

A curated look at November's new CPAN uploads

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Making the Larry Wall shirt

by David Farrell

community

gimp

inkscape

stencil

old_site

How to create your own pop art images

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How to install any* Perl module

by David Farrell

managing_perl

cpan

creative_commons

toolchain

old_site

4 techniques for fixing failing installations

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Run only one instance of a program at a time

by David Farrell

apps

lockfile

process

race_condition

old_site

Lockfiles can provide race condition-free solutions

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What's new on CPAN - October 2015

by David Farrell

cpan

airbrake

slack

jira

fnv

linkedin

old_site

A curated look at October's new CPAN uploads

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Professional scripts are a snap with Getopt::Long

by David Farrell

development

app

terminal

type_check

old_site

This core module makes it easy to write programs

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