I already published this on another site years ago, but wanted it on my blog too. Firstly, you will need salt. Salt can be made from scratch by reacting sodium with chlorine, but a shortcut would be to take a trip to your nearest sea, collect several litres of seawater, and evaporate off the water, … Continued
A little over ten years ago, when Perl 5.18 was approaching its release date, I released match::simple. This was mostly in response to the smartmatch operator (~~) being deprecated, but also a solution to the incredibly arcane rules for…
Quite a while ago, I blogged about how Perl projects should have websites to increase not only their visibility, but the visibility of Perl as a whole. Perl has had the CPAN and awesome websites like MetaCPAN and its…
Let’s play with overloading a little. (Article experimenting with overloading operators in Perl, explaining a safe way to cast an overloaded object to a number.)
Consider a simple module like this: package MyApp::Util::Maths; use strict; use warnings; use constant PI => 3.14159265358979; use constant EULER => 2.71828182845905; use base ‘Exporter’; our @EXPORT_OK = qw( PI EULER add ); our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( arithmetic =>…
I recently decided to experiment by setting up a Matrix account. And because I always dive head first into things, I of course set up my own Matrix server rather than making an account on a public one. At the same time, I noticed my Jabber/XMPP account had stopped working, so I decided to self-host … Continued
Here’s my top five Disney villain songs. I’m only including songs from Walt Disney Animation Studios, so nothing from Pixar, etc. 5. Mother Knows Best — Tangled (2010) “Men with pointy teeth.” It’s a fun song, and quite dark in places. 4. Be Prepared — The Lion King (1994) Jeremy Irons singing with Whoopi Goldberg … Continued
One of the modules bundled with Type::Tiny is Type::Params, a module that allows you to validate subroutine signatures using type constraints. It’s one of the more popular parts of the suite. This article provides a few hints for using…
Here is my recipe for quickly spinning up a WordPress site with: Plugins and themes managed by PHP Composer, so they can be checked into version control. Several of my favourite plugins installed, including FooGallery and Advanced Custom Fields. A minimal theme combining Roots Sage 10 and Bootstrap 5.2 (at the time of writing this … Continued
With my open source work, I’ve historically taken an approach which relies more on integration testing than unit testing, but with some of my newer projects, I’ve tried adopting principles from $paidwork and applying them to my free software. This…
Let’s look at the XSPF playlist format. It’s a pretty simple XML-based file format.
Consider the following fairly simple class, which creates a lookup object for month names…
