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Mark Gardner

I help professional Perl developers to engineer modern, disciplined applications in the cloud.

Location Houston, Texas Joined Joined on  Personal website https://phoenixtrap.com/ github website twitter website

Education

Independence University

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he, him, his

Work

Independent Software Development Contractor with The Perl Shop

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Verifying my cryptographic key for Keyoxide

Verifying my cryptographic key for Keyoxide

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Perl lightning talk: ”Don’t Fear map and grep”

Perl lightning talk: ”Don’t Fear map and grep”

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How much is that BLÅHAJ in the (terminal) window?

How much is that BLÅHAJ in the (terminal) window?

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Perl list processing is for hashes, too

Perl list processing is for hashes, too

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Get out early with Perl statement modifiers

Get out early with Perl statement modifiers

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Highlighting members of the Perl family

Highlighting members of the Perl family

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Perl warnings and the warn function

Perl warnings and the warn function

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Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should

Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should

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34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday

34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday

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A brief note on Log4perl

A brief note on Log4perl

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Sweeter Perl exception classes

Sweeter Perl exception classes

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Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino

Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino

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Video: “A Year of Being Wrong on the Internet”

Video: “A Year of Being Wrong on the Internet”

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Multiple ways to inheritance in Perl

Multiple ways to inheritance in Perl

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This week: The ePhEmeRaL miniconf

This week: The ePhEmeRaL miniconf

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Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes

Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes

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Some thoughts on Perl template processing

Some thoughts on Perl template processing

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Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more

Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more

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The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated

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Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation

Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation

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LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!

LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!

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Fast Perl module installation with cpm

Fast Perl module installation with cpm

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Everyone’s a (Perl) critic, and you can be too!

Everyone’s a (Perl) critic, and you can be too!

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A good old-fashioned Perl log analyzer

A good old-fashioned Perl log analyzer

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Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules

Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules

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Taming the Moose: Method modifiers instead of overrides in object-oriented Perl

Taming the Moose: Method modifiers instead of overrides in object-oriented Perl

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Frenemies part 2: What a difference a (Perl) module makes

Frenemies part 2: What a difference a (Perl) module makes

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Perl & Raku: Best frenemies

Perl & Raku: Best frenemies

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Privacy and speed with Perl’s Object::Pad

Privacy and speed with Perl’s Object::Pad

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What’s Next for Object-Oriented Perl?

What’s Next for Object-Oriented Perl?

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Speaking at Developer Career Day 2021

Speaking at Developer Career Day 2021

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The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism

The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism

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The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate

The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate

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Taming the Moose: Picking the best way to subclass Perl methods

Taming the Moose: Picking the best way to subclass Perl methods

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DZone Contributor of the Month award

DZone Contributor of the Month award

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Perl debugger superpowers, part 2

Perl debugger superpowers, part 2

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Gradual method renaming in Perl

Gradual method renaming in Perl

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Perl can escape the Lisp Curse

Perl can escape the Lisp Curse

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4 Steps to Blogging Outside the Perl Bubble

4 Steps to Blogging Outside the Perl Bubble

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Slides from “Blogging Outside the Bubble” Perl talk

Slides from “Blogging Outside the Bubble” Perl talk

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Moving Perl Mojolicious routes to their own module

Moving Perl Mojolicious routes to their own module

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Should Perl die gracefully?

Should Perl die gracefully?

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Part 7 video of pair programming a Perl web app

Part 7 video of pair programming a Perl web app

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Perl can do that now!

Perl can do that now!

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Part 6 video of pair programming a Perl web app

Part 6 video of pair programming a Perl web app

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A list of Perl list processing modules

A list of Perl list processing modules

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Testing Perl: To plan or not to plan

Testing Perl: To plan or not to plan

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Localizing Dates in a Perl web application with JavaScript

Localizing Dates in a Perl web application with JavaScript

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Part 5 video of pair programming a Perl web app

Part 5 video of pair programming a Perl web app

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Perl.com: Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021

Perl.com: Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021

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Perl test coverage when you don’t have a Makefile

Perl test coverage when you don’t have a Makefile

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Part 4 video of pair programming a Perl web app

Part 4 video of pair programming a Perl web app

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Localizing dates in a Perl web application

Localizing dates in a Perl web application

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Part 3 video of pair programming a Perl web app

Part 3 video of pair programming a Perl web app

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Avoid CPAN conflicts in your personal Perl modules

Avoid CPAN conflicts in your personal Perl modules

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Part 2 video of pair programming with Perl and Mojolicious

Part 2 video of pair programming with Perl and Mojolicious

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Live Zoom programming Sunday with Gábor Szabó

Live Zoom programming Sunday with Gábor Szabó

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The attraction of Test::Fatal in Perl

The attraction of Test::Fatal in Perl

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What to do when your programming project gets canceled

What to do when your programming project gets canceled

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My first article on Perl.com!

My first article on Perl.com!

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