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A Guide to Versions in Perl

A Guide to Versions in Perl

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Bringing Modern OO To Perl

Bringing Modern OO To Perl

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Way Too Many IF-THEN-ELSEs? Try a Lookup Table

Way Too Many IF-THEN-ELSEs? Try a Lookup Table

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Weekly Challenge 101

Weekly Challenge 101

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

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

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"Perl in 2025" FOSDEM video review

"Perl in 2025" FOSDEM video review

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Random integer generation in an interval with Modern OOP Perl

Random integer generation in an interval with Modern OOP Perl

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Browse CPAN modules per namespaces

Browse CPAN modules per namespaces

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Thoughts, quotes and thoughts about regex

Thoughts, quotes and thoughts about regex

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Release 1.52 of perl-workflow

Release 1.52 of perl-workflow

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To help Perl, just blog

To help Perl, just blog

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Setup Mojolicious using Vagrant

Setup Mojolicious using Vagrant

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Simple CPAN module web sites with GitHub Pages

Simple CPAN module web sites with GitHub Pages

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Perl modules with their own web sites

Perl modules with their own web sites

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The hidden gem of Perl advent calendars of 2020

The hidden gem of Perl advent calendars of 2020

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Check links with HTTP::Simple

Check links with HTTP::Simple

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Perl 7: A Modest Proposal

Perl 7: A Modest Proposal

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Check links programmatically (with Perl)

Check links programmatically (with Perl)

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Weekly Challenge 099

Weekly Challenge 099

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Shuffling my playlist with Perl and quantum mechanics

Shuffling my playlist with Perl and quantum mechanics

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5 Ways You Can Embrace the Magic of Perl

5 Ways You Can Embrace the Magic of Perl

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Create Excel file using Perl from JSON data

Create Excel file using Perl from JSON data

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Release 1.51 of perl-workflow

Release 1.51 of perl-workflow

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Release 1.50 of perl-workflow

Release 1.50 of perl-workflow

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Perl, Unicode, and Bytes

Perl, Unicode, and Bytes

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Autovivification in JavaScript

Autovivification in JavaScript

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Perl - mockgen helper perl script

Perl - mockgen helper perl script

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Generate checksum using Perl

Generate checksum using Perl

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CLI tools: Replace snake by camel in a text file

CLI tools: Replace snake by camel in a text file

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Sending HTML Emails Using Perl

Sending HTML Emails Using Perl

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Automate Win32 GUI using Perl and Win32::GuiTest

Automate Win32 GUI using Perl and Win32::GuiTest

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Scraping Google Scholar with Perl and Mojo

Scraping Google Scholar with Perl and Mojo

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Automate Firefox browser with Perl

Automate Firefox browser with Perl

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Release 1.49 of perl-workflow

Release 1.49 of perl-workflow

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Using google reCaptcha v3 with Perl

Using google reCaptcha v3 with Perl

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Using google reCaptcha with Perl

Using google reCaptcha with Perl

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Simple live chart using Mojolicious

Simple live chart using Mojolicious

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Archiving CPAN logs in GitHub Actions

Archiving CPAN logs in GitHub Actions

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Programs to Compute Trig Functions in Python, JavaScript, & Perl (with Maclaurin Series)

Programs to Compute Trig Functions in Python, JavaScript, & Perl (with Maclaurin Series)

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Major features from Perl 5.6 to 5.18

Major features from Perl 5.6 to 5.18

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Perl tips I wish I knew as a beginner

Perl tips I wish I knew as a beginner

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The story behind a new module

The story behind a new module

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I Hate Floating Point!

I Hate Floating Point!

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Perl is dead simple with CBC Block Encryption

Perl is dead simple with CBC Block Encryption

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Book review "Perl For System Administration"

Book review "Perl For System Administration"

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Japhs autopsies (2)

Japhs autopsies (2)

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About Perl books review

About Perl books review

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A Perl love letter

A Perl love letter

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Book review "Perl and DBI"

Book review "Perl and DBI"

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The hate of Perl in Memes

The hate of Perl in Memes

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Five (syntax) things that I would like to change in Perl

Five (syntax) things that I would like to change in Perl

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A call to Perl bloggers to come on dev.to

A call to Perl bloggers to come on dev.to

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A few tips for Perl on Docker and Kubernetes

A few tips for Perl on Docker and Kubernetes

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Book review "Perl and LWP"

Book review "Perl and LWP"

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My TPRCiC 2020 review

My TPRCiC 2020 review

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GitHub Actions for semi-static web sites

GitHub Actions for semi-static web sites

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Weekly Challenge 088

Weekly Challenge 088

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Weekly Challenge #087 Task #1 :: (Perl, Raku)

Weekly Challenge #087 Task #1 :: (Perl, Raku)

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Weekly Challenge #086 Task #2 :: (Raku)

Weekly Challenge #086 Task #2 :: (Raku)

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Hacktoberfest 2020 report

Hacktoberfest 2020 report

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