Bio
I’ve been working with Perl since the 1990’s, using it for everything but salads – texture isn’t quite right. Most of my work with Perl has been munging data, creating and managing databases, and testing.
My Talks
Elevate your wrappers: a new level of dispatch with closures.
This year looks at the inverse: Writing wrappers that adjust their calling space, manage arguments, or perform cleanups. Combining the flexibility of closures with Perl's "goto" makes them invisible.
Locked in a Box: Basics of Closures in Perl5 & Raku
Closures -- and anonymous subs in general -- provide a simple, dynamic way to control code without huge if-blocks. Problem is that most people don't know how to use them or why.
More uses for locked boxes: Closures in Raku and Perl
People enjoyed last year's closures talks. This one goes further into applying closures with basic from Perl5 & extensions in Raku.
Safely shipping your linked list: Using Object::Pad to clean up and extend LinkedList::Single
O::P provides a clean, flexible, declarative, and very fast platform for OOP. The original LinkedList::Single used a bless ref-to-scalar with the attending $$list de-ref's throughout the code. The ...
Sipping from a firehose: Parallel ETL in Raku
'Hypers & Gathers & Takes, Oh my!' was a quick overview of general language facility for ETL. This looks a bit more at ETL requirements with more description of the parallel make and lazy gather th...