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
Tech is something that exists on a global scale, a community of people and companies that work together to create unbelievable things. It doesn’t take into account nationality, ethnicity or borders. Working in tech is like being part of an international family at all times. It doesn’t really matter where you are in the world,
This is a case study about a project we did in Perl for one of our customers, ST-Ericsson, a global wireless platform and semiconductor supplier to top mobile device manufacturers. The challenge The customer needed a system to handle building of executable units for mobile platform software products. This system had to fit
Duke is a Java developer with 5 years of experience. One day, Duke got curious and wanted to learn something about a language called Perl. Duke has a friend, Larry. Larry is a Perl developer for quite some time now. He’s an experienced developer, he know multiple languages, including Java. He played around with it
Programming is beyond the grasp of most people, it doesn't matter if we’re talking about Perl or another language. Most individuals will look at it as more than a foreign language, as something beyond comprehension, something that takes a special kind of thinking. There is some truth to this, as in not everybody can become
Dancer2 is a powerful and flexible framework that is a rewrite of Dancer, made easy to use and with a decent ecosystem of extensions. With all these I was finding myself writing some pieces of code that were more or less the same across the application and could not find a decent way to group
Praise the whale carrying containers (that is their logo, or probably it’s a dolphin, or maybe a whale). Anyway here it is, decide for yourself, I propose a poll. I actually wanted to write something about Perl, but then I realized that in the last few months I worked with this incredible tool and also
Congratulations, Cluj.PM! You have managed to place Cluj-Napoca on the international Perl map now more than ever by bringing YAPC to Cluj-Napoca for its 2016th European edition, next August. Very proud of you, Perl Counts of Transylvania! In choosing Cluj-Napoca as a destination, YAPC::EU not only reinforces the fact that our city is amongst the
