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David Mertens – “C::Blocks”

Posted on July 2, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

C::Blocks In the Perl ecosystem, C is a highly respected but second-class language. C::Blocks changes this situation by embedding a C compiler directly into the Perl parser. Blocks of C code are placed directly among lines of Perl. The compiler is Just-In-Time, making your C code just as scriptable as your Perl code. Functions, variables, […]

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John Anderson – “A Modest Introduction to Swift”

Posted on June 23, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

A Modest Introduction to Swift This talk will present some of the history of the development of Swift with emphasis on how the Open Source release of the language kick-started activity, review the basic syntax of Swift (with comparisons to similar languages that attendees may be more familiar with), and describe what tools are available […]

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Bulk88 – “Writing XS in Plain C”

Posted on June 23, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Writing XS in Plain C Even if you learned C in a classroom at some point, Perl’s “XS” API for writing perl subs in something purported to be C but is really a cat on a tablet with caps lock on. In this talk I will show how difficult it is to write subs in […]

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Graham Knop – “Continuous Integration for CPAN”

Posted on June 23, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Continuous Integration for CPAN – youtube Continuous integration helps you catch issues in your modules across a more diverse set of configurations than is easy to check manually. Travis-CI and AppVeyor are free CI solutions for open source projects that will allow automatic testing on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Extra tools exist for easy testing […]

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Data Structures and Algorithms Problems

Posted on May 24, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Data Structures and Algorithms Problems See this reddit post for discussion

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Specifying dependencies for your CPAN distribution

Posted on May 10, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Specifying dependencies for your CPAN distribution […] I’m going to show you how to specify dependencies for your CPAN distributions: the other Perl and CPAN modules that your distribution relies on. Posts in this series: An introduction to CPAN distribution metadata Dependency phases in CPAN distribution metadata Specifying the type of your CPAN dependencies Specifying […]

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XS Mechanics

Posted on May 4, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

XS Mechanics is an article in five parts about XS. It explains what it is, why it is, how it works, and how to use it. It includes a complete, working example of an XS module, and a stub module that you can use as a starting point for your own code. It is an […]

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Getting started with XS

Posted on May 4, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Part 1: Getting started with XS Part 2: Writing your own XS functions Part 3: XS utility routines that are good to know eXtendable Subroutines (XS) are subroutines written in C that are callable from Perl code. There are two common reasons you’d want to use XS: there is a C library you’d like to […]

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Exploring Inline::C (Generating primes)

Posted on April 30, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Exploring Inline::C (Generating primes) I set out to figure out how to use Inline::C today, and thought I’d share the experience from the perspective of someone who was using Inline::C for the first time.

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Dist::Zilla on Travis CI

Posted on April 24, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Dist::Zilla on Travis CI With Dist::Zilla (dzil), testing Perl projects on Travis CI can be a bit tricky. Here’s my approach.

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