Gabor Szabo Perl Trainer

Perl Maven Cookbook

After a long period of yak shaving, yesterday I decided to go for the short-cut and set up a minimal system for the Perl Maven web site.

In a nutshell, the idea is that I'll start putting all the Perl 5 related post on the Perl Maven site and keep the community related and other stuff on my personal web site.

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TODO for May 2012

In January I started to write annual reports and TODOs. In February and in March I published monthly updates.

In March and April I was so busy with work at clients and holidays, that I could not even keep up with e-mail. Publishing the Perl Weekly was also hard. I could not even post my report at the beginning of April and there was not much point in any planning. I did not know how much time I'll be able to allocate.

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Facebook vs Google+ for Perl projects

I guess the two dead-lines I have next week caused me to go in full procrastination mode and search for Perl based projects on Facebook and Google Plus.

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Splice to slice and dice arrays in Perl

After learning about pop() and shift() students sometimes ask me how to remove an element from the middle of an array?

I usually don't have time to explain it - there are other things to teach, that seem to be more important than splice() in the limited time we have, but I usually give them at least the direction.

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Perl Weekly two days later

Two days ago I wrote that the Perl Weekly reached 3000 subscribers. The article was posted to Hacker News and to Reddit.

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