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At Jobindex we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The OS is very stable and we feel that Red Hat is doing a lot of good stuff for Linux and OSS in general.

When it comes to perl the current version RHEL ships with version 5.8.8 which causes a bit frustration however. Some CPAN modules won't install and it seems like the people who writes modules for CPAN don't really care about our (good) old perl verison.

At YAPC::EU several of the speakers recommended installing perl ourselves instead relying on the OS version.

We have now decided to follow this recommendation. At the sam…

Scalar and list content is a nice and advanced feature of perl. Sometimes I think it's a bit too smart for us who use perl.

In our code we have a lot of method calls like this

$obj->foo( name1 => $value, name2 => bar() );

We do a lot of web stuff and often we like to pass the user input to a method like this:

$obj->foo( name1 => $value, name2 => $cgi->param("inputkey") );

This code is bad! It should be

$obj->foo( name1 => $value, name2 => scalar($cgi->param("inputkey")) );

T…

This is a small list of stuff I learned at YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa.

• I can blog here at blogs.perl.org
• I need to look at Try::Tiny. It's supposed to be (exceptionally) good at handling exceptions
• The WWW::Mechanize::Firefox talk by Max Maischein should have been a bit longer. Max said he used RT for support questions and bug reports
• The bars in Pisa close early and without any warning
• People compile and install their own perl instead of using the version that comes with the OS
• A lot of people use FastCGI instead of mod_perl. Fas…