Perl Is My Cocaine

Three non-stacked nestsTL;DRLet me introduce you The Knests Stack - a modern, typescript based, full stack boilerplate/hackathon starter template project, using the best tools of the moment ...

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Perl6 has just been released, after 15 years of intensive development. Now it's the perfect time for any developer to become a star, or at least to position himself in a very marketable position....

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Imagine you want to try the service offered by a site, but you have to log in to be able to do it. It is the first time you arrive on this site and of course you don't have an account. In order t...

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You Only Live Once This will not be such a YOLO experience, because the whole upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie (stable) went smoothly. I describe the whole process below. I'm not such a great risk...

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photo by +Darren Song Ng  What I mean when I say that CPAN PR Challenge is not really a challenge, is that contributing to well known Perl modules is much more accessible for the m...

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The Perl Bible I received from one of its co-authors - brian d foy. In 16th of March 2015 it will receive the signature of Larry Wall. Larry Wall, the God of +Perl, is coming to the third anniver...

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As a fresh developer, one of the first things you'll hear about Perl is one of the following: Perl is unreadable Perl is the only language that looks the same before and after is encrypted with s...

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This post is a response to the Yet Another Perl Rant article which appeared on hackernews. Without being a special kind of paranoid or conspiracy theory adept, I can't help myself noticing that f...

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If you're somehow related to the IT field (you're a sys admin, a QA, a Project Manager, or even a programmer) you surely got at least one request from a relative who just opened a business, to cr...

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Below is the minimum you need in order to have a web app that provides Facebook authentication. Although there are less than 100 lines of code (including comments), this is a complete Facebook ap...

http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2014/04/perl-facebook-authentication-mojolicious.html

Voting rings can be a low cost alternative to AdWords and Facebook ads to promote high quality content. What are voting rings or voting cliques? Reddit, in their faq section, answers to the ...

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TL;DR Organize meetings, social events and hackathons, pretend you want to help the community, then use the ideas you saw there to serve your personal purpose. In order for this to work, you have...

http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2013/12/how-to-screw-up-startup-community.html

I am a +Perl software developer for since 2010 and I'm a paid software developer since 2006 years. I live in Cluj-Napoca, which is the second most populous city in Romania.  After ...

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I got the opportunity to be present at YAPC::EU 2013 in Kiev and it was great. I even had a lightning talk in which I talked briefly about PRForge and presented a way in which it c...

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+Gabor Szabo, the editor of +Perl Weekly and the author of +Perl Maven had a great idea to translate good Perl tutorials in as many other languages as possible. We already hav...

http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2013/04/translate-perl-tutorials-to-ronglish.html

I am happy that I had the opportunity to be present at what I think is the second most important European Perl conference: the London Perl Workshop. I'll try to describe the short but intense jou...

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Every time I search for something related to Perl, I stumble upon the Perl Monks site - I stay as little as possible on the site, because I can't stand how it looks - everything is too cluttered....

http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2012/11/repainting-monastery.html

A while back I wrote about the awesomeness of Mojolicious with Bootstrap from Twitter. I was then introducing the Mojolicious Boilerplate - a light github repository which is meant to give a head...

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We've all heard of all kinds of metaphors regarding technical debt, but until recently, I never knew of any study that could put a price tag on it.  I guess I'm not the only one unaware of t...

http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2012/03/cost-of-technical-debt-361-line-of-code.html

I am pretty new to Perl - will have 2 years in August 2012 - and I am in love with it. From those 2 years, I spent 8 months on a project which although was written in Perl, was in maintenance mod...

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It's the first meeting in Cluj and I am happy to be one of the speakers. Especially because Matt S Trout (the creator of DBIx::Class) is holding two talks. This is my first public tech prese...

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I found a question on stackoverflow about What is a comparison of famous programming languages in regard of those aspects?And I thought answering the more specific "Which is the best programming ...

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Hi, Almost everywhere I read the use of FORCE INDEX is highly discouraged and I perfectly understand and know why - there are immensely huge chances that MySQL knows better what indexes to choose...

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The context I needed to transform an absolute path, to a relative one. IE: I had a $path1 = "/var/www/classifieds/Includes/configs"(this was the location of the php script that was executing), an...

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The context Recently I had to import data from an XML file into a MySQL table - it was a table with 105 fields from which 71 were direct corespondents in the XML. The approach Taking in considera...

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