Collaborate Disseminate
This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb talk with Randal Schwartz, the longest running host of FLOSS Weekly, Perl’s biggest cheerleader, and now Dart and Flutter expert. What’s new with …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 765: That Ship Sailed… and Sank
I have a keystore file with certificates and I want to compare if the second keystore has exactly the same contents as the first one.
One approach would be to extract the certificates using keytool and the compare the certificates digest e… Continue reading Doing a diff between two keystore files
Perl 5.38 was released this week “after being in development for more than one year,” reports Phoronix. “Perl 5.38 brings a new experimental syntax for defining object classes where per-instance data is stored in ‘field’ variables that behave like lexi… Continue reading Perl 5.38 Released with New Experimental Syntax for Defining Object Classes
Perl’s major version number hasn’t changed since 1994, notes a new blog post at Stack Overflow by Perl book author Dave Cross. Yet the programming language has still undergone “massive changes” between version 5.6 (summer of 2000) and version 5.36 (rel… Continue reading ‘Massive’ Ongoing Changes to Perl Help It Move Beyond Its Unix Roots
Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Mixing Bash and Python
“For a week we lost control of the Perl.com domain,” a long-running site offering news and articles about the programming language, writes the site’s senior editor, brian d foy.
“Now that the incident has died down, we can explain some of what happen… Continue reading The One-Week Hijacking of Perl.com – Explained
If a template is provided to Perl’s Template Toolkit, can you ensure that the code generation inside Template Toolkit is sufficiently subsetted to be safe?
Continue reading Is Template Toolkit safe against arbitrary code execution?
If a template is provided to Perl’s Template Toolkit, can you ensure that the code generation inside Template Toolkit is sufficiently subsetted to be safe?
Continue reading Is Template Toolkit safe against arbitrary code execution?
All’s well that ends well. Continue reading Perl.com gets its domain back – normal service restored!
Perl has been stolen. Well, perl.com, at least. The perl.com domain was transferred to a different registrar on January 27, without the permission of the rightful owner. The first to notice the hack seems to have been [xtaran], who raised …read more
Continue reading This Week in Security: Perl.com, The Great Suspender, And Google’s Solution