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CPAN Tutorials
CPAN Tutorials The CPAN allows you to easily download, install and use Perl software packages on your system. The software package is called a distribution and contains a Perl application or library. A collection of tutorials on using and writing CPAN distributions. Hosted on GitHub. CPAN basics What is a CPAN distribution Make your own […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on CPAN Tutorials )Getting to Travis and GitHub Pages Quickly
Getting to Travis and GitHub Pages Quickly Often, when I’m working locally I like to bounce right over to a GitHub repository url to check something. I ended up writing a bit of code to make this easier. While I was at it, I decided it would be nice to have the same thing for […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Getting to Travis and GitHub Pages Quickly )Teach Makefile.PL to use cpanm
Teach Makefile.PL to use cpanm When writing perl modules, more often than not a few dependencies creep in … which makes it a wee bit awkward when developing the module, because I then have to somehow install these dependencies, and I would rather not get them all over the place but neatly in the module […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Teach Makefile.PL to use cpanm )Perl’s Pegex Module: a great way to parse files by creating grammars
Perl’s Pegex Module: a great way to parse files by creating grammars We recently came across Pegex and found it to be an interesting module for parsing text data. Instead of using regular expressions directly, the user can write a grammar for the data to be parsed. The data can be automatically converted to a […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Perl’s Pegex Module: a great way to parse files by creating grammars )Travis-CI and Perl
Travis-CI and Perl If you’re interested in using Travis-CI for your Perl projects, here’s a few pointers that you should not miss: Update: This talk has been uploaded to youtube.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Travis-CI and Perl )VERSION section in POD
VERSION section in POD I use to include a VERSION section in the main module of the distributions uploaded to CPAN, but this comes at the risk of forgetting to update the number.
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