Mark Gardner

I help professional Perl developers to engineer modern, disciplined applications in the cloud.

Houston, TX Joined on Nov 9, 2020 https://phoenixtrap.com

Education

Independence University

Work

Independent Software Development Contractor with The Perl Shop

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Mark Gardner

Apr 29 '21

Perl tops coding salary rankings

#link #perl #work #salary

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Mark Gardner

Nov 18

Verifying my cryptographic key for Keyoxide

#keyoxide #gnupg #pgp #cryptography

1 min read

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Mark Gardner

Jun 25

Perl lightning talk: ”Don’t Fear map and grep”

#perl #map #grep #video

1 min read

Mark Gardner

Jun 24

How much is that BLÅHAJ in the (terminal) window?

#perl #webdev #apis #mojolicious

6 min read

Mark Gardner

Feb 10

Perl list processing is for hashes, too

#perl #lists #hashes #map

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Jan 19

Get out early with Perl statement modifiers

#perl #exceptions #patterns #antipatterns

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Jan 11

Highlighting members of the Perl family

#perl #community #cpan #twitter

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Jan 4

Perl warnings and the warn function

#perl #warnings #logging

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Dec 28 '21

Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should

#perl #conditions #warnings #strictures

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Mark Gardner

Dec 21 '21

34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday

#news #perl #programming #opensource

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Mark Gardner

Dec 14 '21

A brief note on Log4perl

#perl #logging #log4j #security

2 min read

Mark Gardner

Dec 7 '21

Sweeter Perl exception classes

#perl #oop #exceptions #moo

5 min read

Mark Gardner

Nov 30 '21

Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino

#perl #testing #mocking #metaprogramming

8 min read

Mark Gardner

Nov 30 '21

Video: “A Year of Being Wrong on the Internet”

#perl #blogging #conferences #video

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Mark Gardner

Nov 16 '21

Multiple ways to inheritance in Perl

#perl #oop #cpan #inheritance

5 min read

Mark Gardner

Nov 16 '21

This week: The ePhEmeRaL miniconf

#perl #conferences #link #meetup

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Mark Gardner

Nov 9 '21

Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes

#perl #oop #moose #cpan

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Nov 2 '21

Some thoughts on Perl template processing

#perl #webdev #cpan #templates

4 min read

Mark Gardner

Oct 26 '21

Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more

#perl #grep #lists #map

5 min read

Mark Gardner

Oct 19 '21

The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

#perl #cpan #webdev

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Oct 12 '21

Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation

#perl #cpan #documentation #pod

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4 min read

Mark Gardner

Oct 5 '21

LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!

#perl #lamp #php #python

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4 min read

Mark Gardner

Sep 28 '21

Fast Perl module installation with cpm

#perl #cpan #conferences #dependencies

2 min read

Mark Gardner

Sep 21 '21

Everyone’s a (Perl) critic, and you can be too!

#perl #perlcritic #cpan #lint

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4 min read

Mark Gardner

Sep 14 '21

A good old-fashioned Perl log analyzer

#perl #awk #webdev #apache

5 min read

Mark Gardner

Sep 7 '21

Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules

#perl #oop #cpan #accessors

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6 min read

Mark Gardner

Aug 31 '21

Taming the Moose: Method modifiers instead of overrides in object-oriented Perl

#perl #oop #moose #traits

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Aug 24 '21

Frenemies part 2: What a difference a (Perl) module makes

#perl #rakulang #perl6 #xml

2 min read

Mark Gardner

Aug 17 '21

Perl & Raku: Best frenemies

#perl #raku #rakulang #rss

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7 min read

Mark Gardner

Aug 10 '21

Privacy and speed with Perl’s Object::Pad

#perl #corinna #oop #moo

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Aug 3 '21

What’s Next for Object-Oriented Perl?

#perl #oop #corinna #moo

6 min read

Mark Gardner

Jul 28 '21

Speaking at Developer Career Day 2021

#blogging #career #workshop #conference

1 min read

Mark Gardner

Jul 27 '21

The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism

#perl #bestpractices #oop #signatures

5 min read

Mark Gardner

Jul 20 '21

The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate

#perl #regex #hate

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7 min read

Mark Gardner

Jul 13 '21

Taming the Moose: Picking the best way to subclass Perl methods

#moose #oop #perl

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Jul 6 '21

DZone Contributor of the Month award

#award #dzone #perl

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Mark Gardner

Jul 6 '21

Perl debugger superpowers, part 2

#debugging #json #perl #testing

5 min read

Mark Gardner

Jun 29 '21

Gradual method renaming in Perl

#oop #perl #refactoring

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3 min read

Mark Gardner

Jun 22 '21

Perl can escape the Lisp Curse

#perl #lisp #cpan

2 min read

Mark Gardner

Jun 15 '21

4 Steps to Blogging Outside the Perl Bubble

#blogging #perl

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5 min read

Mark Gardner

Jun 11 '21

Slides from “Blogging Outside the Bubble” Perl talk

#blogging #meetup #presentation #video

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1 min read

Mark Gardner

Jun 8 '21

Moving Perl Mojolicious routes to their own module

#mojolicious #perl #webdev

4 min read

Mark Gardner

Jun 1 '21

Should Perl die gracefully?

#perl

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Mark Gardner

May 31 '21

Part 7 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #database #mojolicious #webdev

1 min read

Mark Gardner

May 25 '21

Perl can do that now!

#perl #languages

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8 min read

Mark Gardner

May 25 '21

Part 6 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#programming #link #meetup #mojolicious

1 min read

Mark Gardner

May 18 '21

A list of Perl list processing modules

#perl #cpan #lists #map

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Mark Gardner

May 11 '21

Testing Perl: To plan or not to plan

#perl #testing #qa #codequality

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Mark Gardner

May 4 '21

Localizing Dates in a Perl web application with JavaScript

#perl #mojolicious #javascript #l10n

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Mark Gardner

May 2 '21

Part 5 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #webdev #meetup #mojolicious

1 min read

Mark Gardner

Apr 27 '21

Perl.com: Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021

#perl

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Mark Gardner

Apr 26 '21

Perl test coverage when you don’t have a Makefile

#perl #testing #qa #codequality

3 min read

Mark Gardner

Apr 26 '21

Part 4 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #mojolicious #pairprogramming #webdev

1 min read

Mark Gardner

Apr 20 '21

Localizing dates in a Perl web application

#perl #webdev #l10n #mojolicious

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5 min read

Mark Gardner

Apr 19 '21

Part 3 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #mojolicious #pairprogramming #webdev

1 min read

Mark Gardner

Apr 13 '21

Avoid CPAN conflicts in your personal Perl modules

#perl #cpan #darkpan #pause

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Mark Gardner

Apr 12 '21

Part 2 video of pair programming with Perl and Mojolicious

#perl #pairprogramming #mojolicious

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Mark Gardner

Apr 9 '21

Live Zoom programming Sunday with Gábor Szabó

#perl #meetup #mojolicious #pairprogramming

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1 min read

Mark Gardner

Apr 6 '21

The attraction of Test::Fatal in Perl

#programming #exceptions #perl #qa

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Mark Gardner

Apr 2 '21

What to do when your programming project gets canceled

#programming #project #work

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Mark Gardner

Mar 30 '21

My first article on Perl.com!

#programming #link #perl #exceptions

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