Guido Flohr

On April 5th, 2018 I will talk about Qgoda at the German Perl Workshop 2018. Other than true multi-color, wide-screen slides being presented, these topics will be covered:

The best way to delete a pid file (or rather a lock file) is not to delete it. Doing so will almost always result in race conditions voiding the protection against parallel execution.

My new LaCie rugged USB-C drive showed only a capacity of 372 MB instead of the 4 TB that I had bought, when I formatted the disk on Mac OS X High Sierra. It turned out that I first had to create a GUID Partition Table (GPT) on it to use the full capacity.

Both Dist::Zilla and Travis CI can greatly improve the quality of your Perl distribtions. But using them in combination causes issues. Fortunately, they can be easily solved.

Using the double star in file name patterns like assets/**/*.css is second nature to many web developers in the Node.js ecosystem. It is also used by gitignore when evaluating exclusion patterns. The new Perl library File-Globstar brings the same functionality to Perl.

Locale-XGettext is a library for creating PO files for messages from any programming language. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for xgettext, whenever a new target language or use case to GNU gettext.