memory leaks

been hunting Catalyst/Template Toolkit memory leaks for a few days ...

unicode again

nice explanation

http://www.ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html

Padre again

Been using it for a week every day, and it feels great.

There are a few issues, but it has crashed on me only once, syntax highlighting in css is great, knows when it's editing html without filename hints and does not balk at Mason ... besides having perltidy and perlcritic only one keyboard shortcut away.

Catalyst unicode-related error

Caught exception in engine "Wide character in syswrite at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Catalyst/Engine.pm line 675."

the solution is to add the Unicode plugin to the application:


use Catalyst qw/
# ... some other plugins
Unicode
/;


"Desperate Perl and Large Scale Perl"

a tale of two languages: desperate Perl and large scale Perl

not enough links to this screencast :-P

Perl Myths 2010-03 Ann Arbor Perl Mongers

"amusing" @INC trouble

got into a bit of panic today:

$ perl -e 'use LWP'
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at ... 

This happened when running anything that used perl, and this error I have not seen before.

Asking around and googling resulted in one conclusion: core Config.pm is busted, Perl is damaged, must reinstall. Lucky for me I realized there was a Config.pm in the folder I was in at the time, and './' was in pole position in my @INC.