Ravenhall [blogs.perl.org]

Bringing my blog back to life

By Ravenhall on May 16, 2016 2:14 PM

I've been busy, busy, busy. Blogging about Perl is one of those things I always said I would get back to one day.

Well, today is that day.

I'm not going to be a daily poster, but I will put my thoughts and rants up here from time to time.

0 comments

Quick update

By Ravenhall on September 20, 2013 10:54 AM under Email, LDAP, Mojolicious, Perl 5

Just a quick update for anyone who's wondering what's going on with me. I had a few major projects at work that absorbed a ton of what I thought would be free time. So far, we have:

Migrated from physical Sendmail Sentrion server to virtual

Moved Enterprise Email Services from one Data Center to a Dual Data Center

Migrated our custom Perl environment along the same path

Consolidated codebase from ~3,000 custom applications to ~28 (Th…

0 comments

Welcome to my Perl blog.

By Ravenhall on January 30, 2012 11:51 AM under Moose, Perl 5

Hi. I'm Nathan. I go by Ravenhall on Perl Monks/PAUSE for those of you in the Perl world. I'm starting this blog to record my work revolutionizing things here at FedEx.

As far as I know, I'm the only full-time Perl programmer here. Perl is used heavily in my group - for both system automation and administration, as well as a few simple web applications. Most of this code is functional in nature, and was written between 12-5 years ago. It's also spread across many servers, and is not very maintainable or portable. It was written under Perl 5.4 - 5.8, so there's lots of room to improv…