Matthew Horsfall (alh)

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• Posted Announcing Net::RNDC - Communicate with BIND through Perl to Matthew Horsfall

  I often have need to communicate with ISC's BIND programattically and I haven't found any libraries out there to do that.

  Often, what you'll see is a wrapper around BIND's rndc utility that forks, execs, passes it arguments, and then parses t…

• Commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl
  Nice slideshow. However, Slide 21 incorrectly hints that "if (defined $value)" and "if ($value)" are the same......

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• Alex Balhatchet commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl

  @pyrimidine - thanks for the typo correction :)

  @nxadm - thanks! would you mind if I used that photo on blog.nestoria.co.uk?

  @SawyerX - good to see you too! Playing with Dancer a bit, will have to get on IRC and pick your brains sometime!

  @Matthew - sorry for the confusion re: defined() vs truthiness, I did say in my talk that they were different but obviously that doesn't come through in the slides. If/when I update it for YAPC I'll see what I can do to make things clearer :) Also note that the "warn()" and "print STDERR" examples do different things too ;)

• nxadm.wordpress.com commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl

  Alex, no problem. Use the picture.

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