Author Archives: Jason

Check Your Facts!

January 2, 2008 – 1:09 pm

Disclaimer: This is a bit of a rant. Not something I do often, but I feel this particular point is relevant and frustrating to a number of people besides myself.
I am getting tired of reading blatently wrong, un-researched, and yet boldly-declared information posted on the web. Not postings on puny personal blogs (like […]

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Understanding Object-Oriented Perl

December 11, 2007 – 6:03 pm

Have you ever wondered what it is you’re doing when you write object-oriented Perl? What is the @ISA array for, and what on earth does bless do? About a week ago I was sitting at BW3 with several members of the Grand Rapids Java Users Group who had those same questions. Read […]

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Looking toward Perl 5.10

November 15, 2007 – 12:55 am

I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to the development of core Perl lately, but a few headlines caught my attention this week and I decided to do some catching up. Per Perl Buzz, Perl 5.10’s first release candidate is coming soon. This will be the first feature release of Perl since […]

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Perl Survey Results: US Perl Mongers

October 18, 2007 – 8:13 am

Because I am the vice president of our local Grand Rapids Perl Mongers group and also because I believe that participation in local user groups is extremely valuable, I was curious to see what the Perl Survey 2007 data would show with regard to user involvement in Perl Mongers user groups across the United States. […]

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Perl Survey Results: Part I

October 15, 2007 – 8:14 pm

Take note, all you aspiring statisticians! The Perl survey data has been released and it’s time to get to work. I expect nothing less than a horde of different and interesting break-downs and mashups in the coming weeks, so to get things rolling I thought I’d put together a quick overview of the […]

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