Mark Gardner

I help professional Perl developers to engineer modern, disciplined applications in the cloud.

Houston, TX Joined on Nov 9, 2020 https://phoenixtrap.com

Education

Independence University

Work

Senior Engineer at Alert Logic

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Mark Gardner

Apr 29 '21

Perl tops coding salary rankings

#link #perl #work #salary

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Feb 10

Perl list processing is for hashes, too

#perl #lists #hashes #map

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Yet Another Perl Switch Statement

You get fall-through if you omit last.

Mar 23

Yet Another Perl Switch Statement

Sure, use a label and then the last statement of your conditi...

Mar 23

Yet Another Perl Switch Statement

That’s exactly what for does, except it’s lexical instead of ...

Mar 23

A brief guide to perl character encoding

That “LAMDA” spelling stuck out to me, but it’s correct in th...

Jan 31

Release 1.9.11 of Perl distribution Crypt::OpenSSL::X509, followed by 1.9.12

Let me know if you need any help with Dist::Zilla.

Jan 28

Server-side JavaScript a decade before Node.js with Netscape LiveWire

Thanks for writing about this. It seems like more and more of...

Jan 12

34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday

Nice, I missed that warnings will be automatically enabled fo...

Dec 26 '21

7 Signs That You're a Good Developer

Dude, you needed an automated tutorial to learn how to use Gi...

Dec 6 '21

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Jan 19

Get out early with Perl statement modifiers

#perl #exceptions #patterns #antipatterns

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Jan 11

Highlighting members of the Perl family

#perl #community #cpan #twitter

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Jan 4

Perl warnings and the warn function

#perl #warnings #logging

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Dec 28 '21

Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should

#perl #conditions #warnings #strictures

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Dec 21 '21

34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday

#news #perl #programming #opensource

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Dec 14 '21

A brief note on Log4perl

#perl #logging #log4j #security

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Dec 7 '21

Sweeter Perl exception classes

#perl #oop #exceptions #moo

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Nov 30 '21

Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino

#perl #testing #mocking #metaprogramming

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Nov 30 '21

Video: “A Year of Being Wrong on the Internet”

#perl #blogging #conferences #video

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Nov 16 '21

Multiple ways to inheritance in Perl

#perl #oop #cpan #inheritance

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Nov 16 '21

This week: The ePhEmeRaL miniconf

#perl #conferences #link #meetup

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Nov 9 '21

Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes

#perl #oop #moose #cpan

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Nov 2 '21

Some thoughts on Perl template processing

#perl #webdev #cpan #templates

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Oct 26 '21

Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more

#perl #grep #lists #map

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Oct 19 '21

The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

#perl #cpan #webdev

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Oct 12 '21

Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation

#perl #cpan #documentation #pod

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Oct 5 '21

LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!

#perl #lamp #php #python

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Sep 28 '21

Fast Perl module installation with cpm

#perl #cpan #conferences #dependencies

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Sep 21 '21

Everyone’s a (Perl) critic, and you can be too!

#perl #perlcritic #cpan #lint

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Sep 14 '21

A good old-fashioned Perl log analyzer

#perl #awk #webdev #apache

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Sep 7 '21

Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules

#perl #oop #cpan #accessors

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Aug 31 '21

Taming the Moose: Method modifiers instead of overrides in object-oriented Perl

#perl #oop #moose #traits

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Aug 24 '21

Frenemies part 2: What a difference a (Perl) module makes

#perl #rakulang #perl6 #xml

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Aug 17 '21

Perl & Raku: Best frenemies

#perl #raku #rakulang #rss

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Aug 10 '21

Privacy and speed with Perl’s Object::Pad

#perl #corinna #oop #moo

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Aug 3 '21

What’s Next for Object-Oriented Perl?

#perl #oop #corinna #moo

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Jul 28 '21

Speaking at Developer Career Day 2021

#blogging #career #workshop #conference

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Jul 27 '21

The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism

#perl #bestpractices #oop #signatures

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Jul 20 '21

The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate

#perl #regex #hate

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Jul 13 '21

Taming the Moose: Picking the best way to subclass Perl methods

#moose #oop #perl

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Jul 6 '21

DZone Contributor of the Month award

#award #dzone #perl

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Jul 6 '21

Perl debugger superpowers, part 2

#debugging #json #perl #testing

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Jun 29 '21

Gradual method renaming in Perl

#oop #perl #refactoring

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Jun 22 '21

Perl can escape the Lisp Curse

#perl #lisp #cpan

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Jun 15 '21

4 Steps to Blogging Outside the Perl Bubble

#blogging #perl

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Jun 11 '21

Slides from “Blogging Outside the Bubble” Perl talk

#blogging #meetup #presentation #video

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Jun 8 '21

Moving Perl Mojolicious routes to their own module

#mojolicious #perl #webdev

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Jun 1 '21

Should Perl die gracefully?

#perl

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May 31 '21

Part 7 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #database #mojolicious #webdev

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May 25 '21

Perl can do that now!

#perl #languages

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May 25 '21

Part 6 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#programming #link #meetup #mojolicious

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May 18 '21

A list of Perl list processing modules

#perl #cpan #lists #map

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May 11 '21

Testing Perl: To plan or not to plan

#perl #testing #qa #codequality

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May 4 '21

Localizing Dates in a Perl web application with JavaScript

#perl #mojolicious #javascript #l10n

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May 2 '21

Part 5 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #webdev #meetup #mojolicious

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Apr 27 '21

Perl.com: Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021

#perl

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Apr 26 '21

Perl test coverage when you don’t have a Makefile

#perl #testing #qa #codequality

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Apr 26 '21

Part 4 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #mojolicious #pairprogramming #webdev

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Apr 20 '21

Localizing dates in a Perl web application

#perl #webdev #l10n #mojolicious

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Apr 19 '21

Part 3 video of pair programming a Perl web app

#perl #mojolicious #pairprogramming #webdev

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Apr 13 '21

Avoid CPAN conflicts in your personal Perl modules

#perl #cpan #darkpan #pause

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Apr 12 '21

Part 2 video of pair programming with Perl and Mojolicious

#perl #pairprogramming #mojolicious

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Apr 9 '21

Live Zoom programming Sunday with Gábor Szabó

#perl #meetup #mojolicious #pairprogramming

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Apr 6 '21

The attraction of Test::Fatal in Perl

#programming #exceptions #perl #qa

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Apr 2 '21

What to do when your programming project gets canceled

#programming #project #work

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Mar 30 '21

My first article on Perl.com!

#programming #link #perl #exceptions

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Mar 29 '21

Part 1 video of live-coding in Perl and Mojolicious; Part 2 coming up

#programming #perl #meetup #mojolicious

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Mar 28 '21

Perl and XML in 2021: A few lessons learned

#programming #perl #work #xml

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Mark Gardner

Mar 18 '21

Live-coding a Course Management Application in Perl and Mojolicious

#programming #meetup #mojolicious #perl

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