Our Perl division has worked on several large scale Perl projects over the years, each with its own set of challenges. However, in almost every case, there was a common denominator, the fact that they were under one form or another of legacy status. This article is about how we tackled one of those
There are several definitions for legacy code that have similar points, but overall people interpret the notion in different ways. For some it’s code without unit tests, for others it’s old code, for most it’s both. It’s not necessarily something vigorously debated, but opinions differ on what makes code legacy. In this short ebook
This summer we had a new Perl internship and a part of it consisted of building an environment monitoring system using Raspberry Pi. In this article I’ll walk you through one of the solutions that you can follow to build something similar. Before getting ahead of myself I have to mention that, during the
Perl is a programming language created by Larry Wall in 1987. It gained popularity in the 1990’ and was also referred to as the “duct tape that holds the Internet together”. For esthetic and practical purposes I will be referring to Perl 5 in this article as Perl. Last December it turned 30, an
We’re happy to announce that Robert Masic, our co-founder, has received a White Camel Award for Perl Advocady. Rob has won the Perl Advocacy award for his and our involvement and support of the Perl community. We are honored to receive this award and happy to contribute to the community as a company and as
Today the Perl programming language is turning 30. That’s quite a milestone. At 30 you start to evaluate your life, you start to put things in perspective and see what you’ve done with yourself. Well, as a programming language Perl doesn’t go through all that, but that doesn’t mean we can’t showcase a few
Last year Cluj Napoca was the lucky host of YAPC::EU 2016, more than 300 Perl Mongers came down, took in the transylvanian vibe and enjoyed all things Perl. It was great being host, but we were excited to attend the Perl conference in Amsterdam. This lovely event, formerly known as YAPC, was the yearly
I have been a Perl developer for most of my professional career, since I first started to write code for a living, about 6 years ago. I mostly did back-end for web applications, but I also remember a Voice over IP app and some DevOps scripts I wrote. I am still a Perl developer after
As a software development company with many Perl developers and an entire department created around this technology we explored the data of the Perl Developer Survey run by BuiltinPerl and found some very interesting facts. How long have you been using Perl 5? Experienced is the perfect word to describe most Perl 5 developers as
