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Our curated guide to July's new CPAN uploads

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What makes your code slow? How do you make it faster? And how do you prove it?

This talk will describe my adventures benchmarking and optimizing ordered hashes in Perl, culminating in the release of Hash::Ordered — which outperforms all other CP [...]

Beim letzten deutschen Perlworkshop haben wir den Mangel an einsatzbereiten "Produkte" als ein Marketingproblem von Perl identifiziert. Wir haben zwar eine große Auswahl an möglichen Lösungen, aber für klassische Aufgabenstellungen wie Blog, CMS, Sho [...]

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DO NOT USE Plack:: namespace to build a new web application or a framework. It's like naming your application under CG [...]

Lately I’ve been in situations where I need to write some event driven, parallel code. Most people call that “async” and I’ll stick to that for now.

What I’ve been doing is writing a little TCP service that can accept any number of clients at th [...]

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Back in May, I spent an afternoon at Silicon MilkRoundabout. Silicon MilkRoundabout is a recruitment fair for techies. It’s specifically aimed at people who want to work for start-ups around the Old Street area (although they aren’t parti [...]

The previous series of posts on the topic of Event Reflexivity each posed a question about what the general shape of the design pattern actually is. Over the following months after the posts I thought about the pattern a lot more and eventually came [...]

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 164

Week's winner (+4): WebAPI::DBIC

Build date: 2014/07/26 19:29:47 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::convertNettica2DNSMadeEasy
• CohortExplorer
• DB::Skip
• DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::FS
• Deb [...]

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2014-07-26 19:23:55 GMT

1. What is the difference between sub Foo::bar {} and sub bar {} when they both belong to package Foo? [...]