9 pages tagged with "perl"

<p>Recently we decided to localize country selection list at work and there was some confusion about how to sort Chinese characters. I asked my wife and she told me that sorting by pinyin is seems most reasonable to her. So here's how to do it in Perl&hellip; </p> read more

<p>Recently I got a lot of failures from CPAN Testers for RedisDB on NetBSD i386. After investigating a bit I've found that <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html">NetBSD 6.0</a> comes now with 64-bit <code>time_t</code> on all architectures. It means that the way I used to pack <code>struct timeval</code> value to set timeout on socket, didn't work anymore. Previously it was the same as <code>long, long</code> on all systems and pack looked like this&hellip; </p> read more

<p>Spent the whole day looking for sources of memory leaks. One of them was because I decided to use named captures. It so happened that perl leaks some memory if named capture doesn't match.&hellip; </p> read more

Uploaded RedisDB 2.00 to CPAN yesterday. It features XS parser which improves performance about 25%. It still loses to Redis::hiredis in pipelining mode, but in synchronous mode it is faster. read more

Just uploaded RedisDB-1.03 to CPAN. In this version I extracted parser code into a separate module and cleaned it up a bit, I have in plans writing XS version of the parser. Another significant change is that I dropped Module::Install and switched to plain ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The size of the distri… read more

Just uploaded RedisDB 0.16 to CPAN. Hopefully now it will work on Windows. The problem is that Windows don't support MSG_DONTWAIT flag for recv, so I have to switch socket into non-blocking mode before checking for data. And I got just a single test report for MSWin32 for three months, apparently it… read more

Modern Perl book by chromatic is out. You can download free PDF version of the book right now, read it, and transfer some sum to the author later if you like the book and have money. Isn't this how all books should be distributed? If you learning Perl, or switching to Perl from the other language, t… read more

<p>Gabor Szabo started the poll for Perl developers <a href="http://bit.ly/99WCKQ"> What are the 8 most important features of an employer or a job opportunity for you?</a>. Here are my answers with comments sorted by priority&hellip; </p> read more

<p>After upgrading Perl to 5.10.1 at Friday I found that POE::Component::Server::PreforkTCP, which we use in one of our products, doesn't pass its tests anymore. Perhaps it's possible to fix, I don't know yet (it was Friday evening...), but as the module hasn't been updated since 2002 I decided to check if there's some replacement for it. I found <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Component-Daemon/">POE::Component::Daemon</a>, it looks very promising for now and I really like it. Here's TCP echo service that I wrote as example while playing with it&hellip; </p> read more