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

Senior Software Developer at HostGator

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Mark Gardner

Apr 29

Perl tops coding salary rankings

#link #perl #work #salary

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Nov 30

Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino

#perl #testing #mocking #metaprogramming

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Release of Perl distribution of Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.8

FFI::Platypus looks like an alternative to XS.

Nov 14

13 reasons why you should not use Perl

I’m sorry you had such a poor initial experience. Maybe I can...

Oct 23

In-place editing with Dancer2 and jQuery

Thanks for the shout-out! This is a great example of modern w...

Oct 10

The ephemeral miniconf - Clement Oudot

Will all of these talks be in English or will some be in Fren...

Aug 31

Perl & Raku: Best frenemies

Your XML::Feed also looks nice and pretty much does everythin...

Aug 22

Perl & Raku: Best frenemies

Nice! I’m always the one saying, “Check CPAN first.” I should...

Aug 22

Why am I giving up on Perl?

Good luck. I know Perl jobs are pretty scarce, and I wish you...

Aug 2

Handling of symlinks on Windows (Perl, MSYS2, Cygwin)

Any way to get VSCode on Windows to use a Perl running on Win...

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Nov 30

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

#perl #blogging #conferences #video

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Nov 16

Multiple ways to inheritance in Perl

#perl #oop #cpan #inheritance

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Nov 16

This week: The ePhEmeRaL miniconf

#perl #conferences #link #meetup

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Nov 9

Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes

#perl #oop #moose #cpan

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Nov 2

Some thoughts on Perl template processing

#perl #webdev #cpan #templates

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Oct 26

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

#perl #grep #lists #map

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Oct 19

The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

#perl #cpan #webdev

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Oct 12

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

#perl #cpan #documentation #pod

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Oct 5

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

#perl #lamp #php #python

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Sep 28

Fast Perl module installation with cpm

#perl #cpan #conferences #dependencies

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Sep 21

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

#perl #perlcritic #cpan #lint

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Sep 14

A good old-fashioned Perl log analyzer

#perl #awk #webdev #apache

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Sep 7

Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules

#perl #oop #cpan #accessors

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Aug 31

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

#perl #oop #moose #traits

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Aug 24

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

#perl #rakulang #perl6 #xml

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Aug 17

Perl & Raku: Best frenemies

#perl #raku #rakulang #rss

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Aug 10

Privacy and speed with Perl’s Object::Pad

#perl #corinna #oop #moo

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Aug 3

What’s Next for Object-Oriented Perl?

#perl #oop #corinna #moo

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Jul 28

Speaking at Developer Career Day 2021

#blogging #career #workshop #conference

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Jul 27

The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism

#perl #bestpractices #oop #signatures

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Jul 20

The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate

#perl #regularexpressions #hate #regex

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Jul 13

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

#moose #oop #perl

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Jul 6

DZone Contributor of the Month award

#award #dzone #perl

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Jul 6

Perl debugger superpowers, part 2

#debugging #json #perl #testing

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Jun 29

Gradual method renaming in Perl

#oop #perl #refactoring

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Jun 22

Perl can escape the Lisp Curse

#perl #lisp #cpan

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Jun 15

4 Steps to Blogging Outside the Perl Bubble

#blogging #perl

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Jun 11

Slides from “Blogging Outside the Bubble” Perl talk

#blogging #meetup #presentation #video

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Jun 8

Moving Perl Mojolicious routes to their own module

#mojolicious #perl #webdev

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Jun 1

Should Perl die gracefully?

#perl

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May 31

Part 7 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #database #mojolicious #webdev

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May 25

Perl can do that now!

#perl #languages

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May 25

Part 6 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#programming #link #meetup #mojolicious

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May 18

A list of Perl list processing modules

#perl #cpan #lists #map

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May 11

Testing Perl: To plan or not to plan

#perl #testing #qa #codequality

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May 4

Localizing Dates in a Perl web application with JavaScript

#perl #mojolicious #javascript #l10n

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May 2

Part 5 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #webdev #meetup #mojolicious

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Apr 27

Perl.com: Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021

#perl

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Apr 26

Perl test coverage when you don’t have a Makefile

#perl #testing #qa #codequality

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Apr 26

Part 4 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #mojolicious #pairprogramming #webdev

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Apr 20

Localizing dates in a Perl web application

#perl #webdev #l10n #mojolicious

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Apr 19

Part 3 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #mojolicious #pairprogramming #webdev

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Apr 13

Avoid CPAN conflicts in your personal Perl modules

#perl #cpan #darkpan #pause

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Apr 12

Part 2 video of pair programming with Perl and Mojolicious

#perl #pairprogramming #mojolicious

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Apr 9

Live Zoom programming Sunday with Gábor Szabó

#perl #meetup #mojolicious #pairprogramming

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Apr 6

The attraction of Test::Fatal in Perl

#programming #exceptions #perl #qa

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Apr 2

What to do when your programming project gets canceled

#programming #project #work

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Mar 30

My first article on Perl.com!

#programming #link #perl #exceptions

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Mar 29

Part 1 video of live-coding in Perl and Mojolicious; Part 2 coming up

#programming #perl #meetup #mojolicious

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Mar 28

Perl and XML in 2021: A few lessons learned

#programming #perl #work #xml

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Mar 18

Live-coding a Course Management Application in Perl and Mojolicious

#programming #meetup #mojolicious #perl

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Mar 17

Video for Better Perl: Subroutine signatures and type validation

#programming #meetup #perl

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Mar 16

Better Perl: Using map and grep

#programming #grep #lists #map

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Mar 9

The Perl debugger can be your superpower

#programming #debugging #perl

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Mar 3

Tuesday at Boston.pm: Perl subroutine signatures and type validation

#programming #perl

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Mar 3

Building a microservice in Perl, part 2: Up and running

#perl #microservices #mojolicious #openapi

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Feb 27

Building a microservice in Perl, part 1: Designing the API

#perl #microservices #mojolicious #openapi

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Feb 23

Exceptional Perl: Failure is an option

#programming #perl #testing #documentation

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Feb 16

Better Perl: More on signatures and types

#programming #perl

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