brian d foy
@briandfoy_perl
I'm the author of several books on Perl. I'm working on a book about Perl's latest features. My latest book is http://leanpub.com/perl_new_features
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I've started transferring my modules to my new PAUSE Id BRIANDFOY since I'm also getting rid of all references to the old cpan.org email address and just using my real one. No big whoop, but now my PAUSE Id looks more like the names I use everywhere else.
PAUSE is updating its data files again reddit.com/r/perl/comment…
Strawberry Perl 5.42.0 is out github.com/StrawberryPerl… And, TIL you can get a feed of the releases in a GitHub repo: github.com/StrawberryPerl…
Hey, application/yaml was made official last year: rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9512.ht…
Randal Schwartz's "Half My Life with Perl" talk for the Toronto Perl Mongers, as part of the Perl Advent Calendar perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-1…
Happy Birthday Perl! reddit.com/r/perl/comment…
A new edition of Data Munging with Perl reddit.com/r/perl/comment…
Perl may be a good tool, and it may be good for the task, but it might not be good for the person who has to use it reddit.com/r/perl/comment…
Perl's Karl Williamson asks a question on Stackoverflow and the first comment points him at the perldocs, which he wrote. stackoverflow.com/q/78795446/276… But then, I've searched for things and ended up on something I wrote a long time ago.
Huh, MetaCPAN has an online Pod previewer for any Pod you care to put in the form: metacpan.org/pod2html
Carp::Object from dami gives you better control of carp messages (with a shoutout to my book Mastering Perl) blogs.perl.org/users/dami/202…
A syntax error I introduced into a perlfaq5 example years ago shows up as a Stackoverflow question: stackoverflow.com/q/78207310/276… You know what this means? Someone read the faq!
GitHub has responded to my ticket about adding Perl as an environment for their advisory database github.com/github/advisor…
I was giving another writer advice and I wanted to track down @rjbs's review of Mastering Perl, which is completely on point and illustrates the point I was making: rjbs.cloud/blog/2007/07/m…
R Geoffrey Avery receives the 2023 White Camel Award for his long history of service at Perl events, most notably the organizer of lightning talks. reddit.com/r/perl/comment… youtube.com/watch?v=RarVGK…
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