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…