Category Archives: perl

craigslist Charitable Fund Donates to the Perl Foundation

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

I’m very happy to see the announcement on the Perl Foundations’s home page this morning. According to craigslist CEO and former Perl Hacker Jim Buckmaster, “craigslist has gloried in and relied upon Perl for most of its software development for more than … Continue reading →

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I actually tried learning Rails

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

A few months back I wanted to prototype some ideas that my wife and I have been tossing around for web sites that’d be fun to build up in our so-called spare time. I thought it would be smart to … Continue reading →

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Perl, MD5, and Unicode

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Pro Tip: Perl’s Digest::MD5 hates Unicode (and so should you). Here’s what I recently learned from perldoc Digest::MD5 recently (the hard way, of course): Perl 5.8 support Unicode characters in strings. Since the MD5 algorithm is only defined for strings … Continue reading →

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