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Issue #407 - 2019-05-13 - What do you do when you can't find a job as 'Perl developer'?
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Hi there, it isn't new that the market for 'Perl developers' is shrinking. What do you do in order to maintain your employability? What will you do (or what have you done) if you can't find a new job as 'Perl developer'? Alternatively, what do you do so you'll keep finding 'Perl developer' jobs for yourself? (BTW have you tried at the end of this newsletter?) Write a blog post about it or write me in person! In any case enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) It is not a good practice to put a lot of code in a BEGIN block or in the body of a module that gets executed at compile time, but we have all encountered code like that. How can you debug such code? |
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by Dean Hamstead (DJZORT) MTA-STS (RFC8461) is a new standard that makes it possible to send downgrade-resistant email over SMTP. In that sense, it is like an alternative to DANE. It does this by piggybacking on the browser Certificate Authority model. | 
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Discussion
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by Dean Hamstead (DJZORT) While the title is admitedly a clickbait, in reality I am afraid it is also true. But prove me wrong. |
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Code
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Make it easier to format a route, by making the route object more self-aware. | 
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Renaming a file in git is easy. Renaming a module is always a pain as you need to change the name of the file. The name of the 'package' inside. Every place where it is used in every other file. Including the tests. You also need to update the documentation. Here is a script that will do it for you. All that without using the word 'refactoring' even once. | 
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) What if you have a loop that you'd like to debug but only after it passed 10,000 iterations? Use conditional breakpoints. |
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