brian d foy
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I'm the author of several books on Perl. I'm working on a book about Perl's latest features. My latest book is https://t.co/t5loIP21PV
New York, NY
Joined November 2009
I've started transferring my modules to my new PAUSE Id BRIANDFOY since I'm also getting rid of all references to the old email address and just using my real one. No big whoop, but now my PAUSE Id looks more like the names I use everywhere else.
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"I am effective with this [AI] tool because I know what stupid looks like"
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How's the economy going? Well, let's see how many body shops are trying to partner with me today so their people can work.
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Randal Schwartz's "Half My Life with Perl" talk for the Toronto Perl Mongers, as part of the Perl Advent Calendar.
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Perl may be a good tool, and it may be good for the task, but it might not be good for the person who has to use it.
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Perl's Karl Williamson asks a question on Stackoverflow and the first comment points him at the perldocs, which he wrote. But then, I've searched for things and ended up on something I wrote a long time ago.
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Huh, MetaCPAN has an online Pod previewer for any Pod you care to put in the form:
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Carp::Object from dami gives you better control of carp messages (with a shoutout to my book Mastering Perl) .
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A syntax error I introduced into a perlfaq5 example years ago shows up as a Stackoverflow question:. You know what this means? Someone read the faq!.
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GitHub has responded to my ticket about adding Perl as an environment for their advisory database.
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I was giving another writer advice and I wanted to track down @rjbs's review of Mastering Perl, which is completely on point and illustrates the point I was making:.
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