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Test::Class Hierarchy Is an Antipattern

Test::Class Hierarchy Is an Antipattern

Test::Class is particularly good at testing object-oriented code, or so it is said. You can create a hierarchy of test classes that mirrors…
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Tim King
Start Your Adventure in Tau Station Now

Start Your Adventure in Tau Station Now

Today marks the end of Closed Alpha and the birth of Tau Station! Today we celebrate by opening access to everyone, for discovery and…
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Tau Station
Perl 5 XML Validation with DTD and XSD

Perl 5 XML Validation with DTD and XSD

This post is a brief but practical demonstration of validating an XML Document against Document Type Definition (DTD) and XML Schema…
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Kirk Lewis
Closed Alpha Test: Liftoff!

Closed Alpha Test: Liftoff!

Happy New Year 2018 to everyone — let’s continue the fireworks! The on-boarding to our first spaceship is done and the Closed Alpha Test…
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Tau Station
Merry Christmas! Join the Closed Alpha!

Merry Christmas! Join the Closed Alpha!

People have been waiting a long time for the launch of Tau Station and we’re just about to start our closed alpha, as described here. If…
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Tau Station
On writing clean database code

On writing clean database code

In earlier articles we looked at the way we use “economic exchanges” to simplify complex code into a series of small understandable steps…
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Tau Station
Avoiding Multiple Inheritance with Traits

Avoiding Multiple Inheritance with Traits

When reading through the literature of how games are built, we find that a common pattern for many games is the Entity-Component-System…
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Tau Station

Open Source Communities Threatened by U.S. Immigration and Border Policies

In less than two weeks I’ll be attending The Perl Conference 2017 (TPC) in Alexandria, Virginia. I’m excited about TPC; I’ve attended this…
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James E Keenan
On writing clean code

On writing clean code

There’s a little-known secret in the software industry. If you’re in the industry long enough, talk to other people in your field, and…
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Tau Station
Gun Violence: Using Perl to Analyze Publicly Available Data

Gun Violence: Using Perl to Analyze Publicly Available Data

On March 20, the Guardian and the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) released "a new set of nationwide data for 2015 that maps gun murders at the…
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James E Keenan
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