• 2011.08.10 in #3 Hunting a Padre bug
  Sebastian Willing explains binary searching through SVN revisions in order to find a bug which is known as bisect in the git world.
• 2011.11.10 in #16 Intelligent caching for all time statistics
  Sebastian Willing show how to use Memcached to keep already computed data in memory in a way that survives even a restart to the web-server.
• 2011.12.01 in #19 How do I get a unique Perl Interpreter ID?
  Sebastian Willing pointed me to this discussion on Perl Monks
• 2011.12.04 in #19 Memcached statistics (stats command)
  Sebastian Willing collected some information on how to get statistics from memcached using Cache::Memcached.
• 2011.12.13 in #21 When slower is better: Secure your passwords
  Sebastian Willing (Sewi) explains how to store passwords in a very secure way and how to maintain or even increase the security level while cracking passwords is getting faster and faster.
• 2012.01.05 in #24 Hunting down a memory leak
  Sebastian Willing (Sewi) takes us on a tour of a simple looking Perl code that had a memory leak and shows us how to eliminate that.
• 2012.02.24 in #31 Think looping
  Frequent updates to a database and frequent opening of a file can be very time consuming. Sebastian Willing (Sewi) shows how he made his code much faster by some caching and by trading accuracy in the database, for speed.
• 2012.03.04 in #32 mySQL Date Bug: 'date' >= '2012-03-01 00:00:00' is not the same as 'date' >= '2012-3-01 00:00:00'
  Do you like mySQL? Sebastian Willing shares this issue with you.
• 2012.04.30 in #41 Creating a crossword puzzle
  Using Perl and some other glue Sebastian Willing explains how to create a crossword puzzle in German. I guess you could apply the same method in other languages as well.
• 2012.05.12 in #42 Web-Multitasking: Whos gonna work for the working man?
  Sebastian Willing provides several strategies improving the performance of your web application. He also gives descriptive names to each one of them.
• 2012.05.15 in #43 Setting up Gearman
  Gearman is a Job server originally written in Perl (though it also has a C and a Java implementation now). Sebastian Willing started a series writing about it.
• 2012.07.24 in #53 Perl bits: Passing @_ to a subroutine
  Do you know what does &foo do? Asked and answered by Sebastian Willing
• 2012.08.20 in #57 YAPC::EU 2012 - hot like hell
  by Sebastian Willing
• 2013.01.11 in #77 Everybody is doing it
  Sebastian Willing got frustrated (again?) by the people who think Perl is dead.
• 2013.04.03 in #89 Connecting to Sybase ASE with Perl's DBI
  A simple explanation by Sebastian Willing on how to connect to the Sybase ASE database from Perl using the DBI module.
• 2013.07.04 in #102 Setting up MovableType on a basic webspace
  Would you like to have a Perl-based blog engine? Sebastian Willing shares his experience setting up MovableType on a shared hosting account.
• 2013.07.09 in #103 Retry failed Gearman jobs
  Gearman manages your computational tasks and hands them out to available workers. It can do it in a fault tolerant way. Sebastian Willing is showing us how to retry failed jobs.
• 2013.07.15 in #104 Converting a WordPress theme to MovableType
  WordPress has tons of plugins and themes and what not. Many of these are open source, so if you have some other blogging engine, for example Movable Type, or even a simple, static 'blog engine', you could convert the nice WordPress themes to one of your own. This is what Sebastian Willing has been describing in his recent blog entry.
• 2013.10.22 in #118 Parallel DNS lookups using AnyEvent
  An explanation and a full example script by Sebastian Willing.
• 2013.12.02 in #124 Data::ObjectDriver and JOIN
  Sebastian Willing is experimenting with Data::ObjectDriver, and finds that the way it deals with foreign table joins is pretty darn good.
• 2014.03.12 in #138 Perl RegEx /s /m Magic
  Sebastian Willing explains the 3 modifiers: /s, /m, and .
• 2014.04.18 in #143 Passing arguments
  Sebastian Willing compares 8 different ways for passing arguments to a function checking their speed.
• 2015.05.30 in #201 Reference found where even-sized list expected
  References are not allowed as hash keys. They will be stringified and you'll have a key like this HASH(0x14b7720)

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