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   2011.08.03 in <a href="/archive/2.html">#2</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2011/08/loving-514.html">Ovid is loving 5.14</a><br>
   With a small example Ovid is showing several new features of Perl 5.14. The actual explanations by Hercynium are in the comments.
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   2011.08.09 in <a href="/archive/3.html">#3</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2011/08/binary-search-versus-hash-lookup.html">Binary search versus hash lookup - benchmarking</a><br>
   As usual Ovid makes and excellent post with an excellent code example. He is comparing binary search of sorted data vs creating a lookup table and using it. The numbers speak for themself. Or do they?
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   2011.08.27 in <a href="/archive/5.html">#5</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2011/08/determining-my-daughters-age.html">Determining my daughter's age</a><br>
   A simple example using the Datetime module written by Ovid.
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   2011.10.07 in <a href="/archive/11.html">#11</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2011/10/querying-elasticsearch-from-vim.html">Querying ElasticSearch from VIM</a><br>
   It is a bit unclear to me why did Ovid give this title while it seems the interesting part of his blog entry was the Perl script that highlights the character where a json file has a syntax error. The funny thing is that the Perl Weekly is based on a JSON file and I am writing it in Padre. So I already wanted to write a plugin to do syntax checking of JSON files. Now I can just take what Ovid wrote.
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   2011.12.24 in <a href="/archive/22.html">#22</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2011/12/beginning-perl---sneak-peek.html">Beginning Perl - Sneak Peek</a><br>
   Ovid shows how he is explaining recursive subroutines in his new book.
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   2011.12.29 in <a href="/archive/23.html">#23</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2011/12/a-regex-for-my-book.html">A regex for my book</a><br>
   Ovid showed us a horrific regex that he is going to include in his new book. First he got some comments on Facebook and then blogged about it with a modified version of the same thing.
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   2011.12.30 in <a href="/archive/23.html">#23</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2011/12/syntax-highlighting-perl-debugger-on-github.html">Syntax Highlighting Perl Debugger on github</a><br>
   It seems Ovid does not spend enough time on his book, blogging and moving from Amsterdam to Paris so he wrote color highlighting for the built-in debugger of Perl.
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   2012.02.09 in <a href="/archive/29.html">#29</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/02/unicode-and-passwords.html">Unicode and Passwords</a><br>
   Do you allow strange characters in the username field? What about the password field? Don't have people enough problem typing with Caps-lock on by mistake? Check some of the issues with Unicode and passwords as Curtis (Ovid) Poe thinks about them.
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   2012.03.02 in <a href="/archive/32.html">#32</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/03/perlfind---perldoc-on-steroids.html">perlfind - perldoc on steroids</a><br>
   This wheel has been reinvented so many times already, but for some reason none of them became widely accepted. I'd really like to see this take off as it can make our life a lot easier. This one is from Ovid.
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   2012.03.31 in <a href="/archive/36.html">#36</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/03/major-dbcolor-update-perl-qa-hackathon.html">Major DB::Color update (Perl QA Hackathon)</a><br>
   Ovid improved DB::Color that allows you to have color while using the built-in debugger of Perl. He also discovered some bugs in Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate that I maintain. As it was in the SVN repository of Padre I quickly converted it to Github and Ovid already pushed some regression tests. It would be nice if some good soul took a look at that module as I probably won't have much time for it.
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   2012.04.12 in <a href="/archive/38.html">#38</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/04/explaining-web-programming-via-plack.html">Explaining Web Programming via Plack</a><br>
   Should Ovid introduce only PSGI in his book or should it also include Dancer and Catalyst?
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   2012.06.14 in <a href="/archive/47.html">#47</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/06/read-my-book-online-for-free.html">Read Beginner Perl by Ovid online for free</a><br>
   Ovid mentiones that his new, not-yet-published book is now available free of charge for on-line readers. Go read it while it is available.
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   2012.07.19 in <a href="/archive/52.html">#52</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/07/integrating-perlcritic-and-vim.html">Integrating perlcritic and vim</a><br>
   
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   2012.08.24 in <a href="/archive/57.html">#57</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/08/slides-for-my-yapceurope-2012-keynote.html">Slides for my YAPC::Europe 2012 Keynote</a><br>
   From Ovid who wants you to understand what Agile means. Also known as POP: People - Organization - Process.
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   2012.08.27 in <a href="/archive/58.html">#58</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/08/yapceurope-2012.html">YAPC::Europe 2012</a><br>
   by Ovid
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   2012.09.26 in <a href="/archive/62.html">#62</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/09/beginning-perl-wrox-is-now-released.html">Beginning Perl (Wrox) is now released</a><br>
   Ovid is announcing the availability of his Perl book. As he writes: If you're interested in Perl but worried about the title, the book actually takes you all the way through OO programming and even has introductory sections on Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Plack, and other tools. It's fairly comprehensive.
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   2012.10.14 in <a href="/archive/64.html">#64</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/10/mojolicious-an-unexpected-result.html">Mojolicious: an unexpected result</a><br>
   The original article by Ovid in which he suggests that companies using the Mojolicious (with its no-CPAN-dependency policy) tend to be avoid using CPAN and tend to reinvent the rest of the wheels themselves. As I can tell, Ovid does not say which is the cause and which is the result.
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   2012.12.07 in <a href="/archive/72.html">#72</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/12/finding-duplicate-code-in-perl.html">Finding Duplicate Code in Perl</a><br>
   One of the biggest problem I encounter when starting to clean up legacy code, is locating and eliminating duplicate code. For a long time I planned to write something to find them, but I never felt up to the task. I am glad Ovid started to work on this. I think this will be extremely useful in a lot of places.
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   2012.12.19 in <a href="/archive/74.html">#74</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/12/testclass-moose.html">Test::Class + Moose?</a><br>
   Ovid has started to build a module for testing applications using Moose.
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   2012.12.26 in <a href="/archive/75.html">#75</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2012/12/refactoring-when-tests-are-failing.html">Refactoring When Tests Are Failing</a><br>
   What happens when your co-worker left the code in a broken state and he is gone for 2 weeks during the holidays? how do you avoid the constant nagging of the failing tests, and how do you make sure you don't get used to them saying 'Oh we expect those to fail...'. As usual Ovid comes with an interesting solution, though I think I'd stick to TODO block + big red sticker on co-workers screen.
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   2013.01.05 in <a href="/archive/76.html">#76</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/01/how-to-write-a-test-description.html">How to write a test description</a><br>
   Too often, peeps eschew test descriptions in TAP suites. Ovid explains why this is sub-optimal, and how those descriptions can be leveraged to make tests as self-documenting as possible.
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   2013.01.29 in <a href="/archive/80.html">#80</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/01/testclassmoose-on-the-cpan.html">Test::Class::Moose on the CPAN</a><br>
   A new contender in the JUnit-type testing arena. This one is from Ovid, and throws Moose goodness in the mix.
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   2013.02.18 in <a href="/archive/82.html">#82</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/red-black-trees-in-perl-6-explained.html">Red-Black Trees in Perl 6 Explained</a><br>
   Ovid took the solution from Rosetta Code and first explained what Red-Black Trees are and how they can be implemented in Perl 6.
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   2013.02.20 in <a href="/archive/83.html">#83</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/a-follow-up-on-three-value-logic-in-perl.html">A follow up on three-value logic in Perl</a><br>
   Do you like to upset your boss? Neither do I. Apparently Ovid wants avoid that too. So how do you compare undef with a number in a way that it won't mean 0?
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   2013.03.15 in <a href="/archive/86.html">#86</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/03/discoverable-tests-and-creating-testing-standards.html">Discoverable tests and creating testing standards</a><br>
   You have so many tests associated with your perl code that it's becoming a problem to wade through it in search of a specific testcase?  Oh, how do I envy you. But still, Ovid proposes a standard (with heplful vim scripts) to  make things as neat and as organized as possible.
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   2013.03.17 in <a href="/archive/86.html">#86</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/03/using-roles-with-testclassmoose.html">Using Roles with Test::Class::Moose</a><br>
   Just like Moose can tremendously simplify your OO classes, Test:::Class::Moose can do wonders for your test suites. Ovid shows us how it can leverage inheritance and roles to great advantages.
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   2013.03.22 in <a href="/archive/87.html">#87</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/03/better-reporting-for-your-test-suite.html">Better reporting for your test suite</a><br>
   For Test::Class::Moose users...
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   2013.04.12 in <a href="/archive/90.html">#90</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/04/how-to-be-agile-without-testing.html">How to be agile without testing</a><br>
   For a developer, it's all bugs. Well, it ain't, Ovid points out: there is bugs, and then there is unforeseen behaviors. And while the first group is almost always bad news, the second group can be... surprising.
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   2013.04.21 in <a href="/archive/91.html">#91</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/04/when-must-you-test-your-code.html">When Must You Test Your Code?</a><br>
   Ovid continues his thoughts on the balance between the need for 'well tested code' and 'useful code'. In other settings people say 'making more money for the business is the only important thing', but what are the limits? Ovid uses the expressions 'do no harm' and 'mitigate harm' and 'ethical choice'. Where do you stand? Where does the company you work for stands?
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   2013.05.06 in <a href="/archive/94.html">#94</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/05/tags-now-available-with-testclassmoose.html">Tags now available with Test::Class::Moose</a><br>
   There is now a way to attach meta-data to your test suite, and then based on that meta data select which test you'd like to run.
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   2013.05.19 in <a href="/archive/95.html">#95</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/05/cleaning-up-the-testclassmoose-base-class.html">Cleaning up the Test::Class::Moose base class</a><br>
   A new version of Test::Class::Moose is out. Ovid walks us through the new, cleaner class-to-test-file interface it provides.
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   2013.05.30 in <a href="/archive/97.html">#97</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/05/if-theres-a-shortage-of-programmers-why-arent-wages-up.html">If there's a shortage of programmers, why aren't wages up?</a><br>
   Peoples bemoans that good programmers are hard to find, yet our wages aren't going through the roof. What's up with that? Ovid looks at the various factors that are in play in the equation.
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   2013.06.05 in <a href="/archive/98.html">#98</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/06/a-testclass-anti-pattern.html">A Test::Class Anti-Pattern</a><br>
   You have test fixtures that you need to run in a certain order.  So you name them 'aaa_first()', 'bbb_second()', right? Wrong! That's a classic anti-pattern, and Ovid shows us how to deal with ordering fictures in a much more elegant way.
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   2013.06.19 in <a href="/archive/100.html">#100</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/06/being-nice-to-colleagues-with-git-pre-commit-hooks.html">Being nice to colleagues with git pre-commit hooks</a><br>
   The article is about test code, but this could apply to regular code as well. How many times have you added print statements or other 'debugging code' to your application? And how many times have you forgotten to remove it before committing to Git? You can avoid it using pre-commit hooks.
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   2013.07.03 in <a href="/archive/102.html">#102</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/encapsulating-responsibility-in-methods.html">Encapsulating Responsibility in Methods</a><br>
   Ovid explains how Object Oriented programming can hide complexities. If you follow the pattern he outlines, you will see the number of parameters you need to pass shrinking. Which is always a good thing.
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   2013.07.13 in <a href="/archive/103.html">#103</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/the-grep-test---my-personal-experience.html">The grep test - my personal experience</a><br>
   The grep test basically means that you should be able to grep for any meaningful string in your code base to find out the usage of those keywords. This sounds like a very reasonable approach and a good way to explain it, but what would you do if you had a piece of code where you get the name of a method passed to you and you call that method using the variable name? How can the name of that method grepped?
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   2013.07.24 in <a href="/archive/105.html">#105</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/how-to-fake-database-design.html">How to fake a database design</a><br>
   You've heard of database normalization, but ain't too sure of what it's truly about? Ovid provides us here with a handy introduction to that core concept of (sane) database design.
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   2013.07.29 in <a href="/archive/106.html">#106</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/perl-startups-recollectnet.html">Perl Startups: Recollect.net</a><br>
   Ovid continues his weekly interviews with Perl-based start-up companies. This week it was with Luke Closs, the CTO of recollect.net.
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   2013.08.12 in <a href="/archive/108.html">#108</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/08/you-are-in-a-forest.html">You are in a forest ...</a><br>
   Remember those good ol' text games of yore? Ovid does too, and he wrote a Perl engine to run those vintage adventures.
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   2013.09.03 in <a href="/archive/111.html">#111</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/09/testclassmoose-introductory-video.html">Test::Class::Moose introductory video</a><br>
   For most cases, Test::More is all you need. But sometimes, just sometimes, you have to get the big guns. Ovid presents here one of those high caliber solutions.
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   2013.09.04 in <a href="/archive/111.html">#111</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/09/using-git-bisect-to-track-down-warnings-in-your-test-suite.html">Using git-bisect to track down warnings in your test suite</a><br>
   Sleuthing for when a bug appeared is no fun. Fortunately, 'git bisect' can help to zero in quickly on where things went South. Ovid here shares a few tricks to use this tool efficiently.
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   2013.09.26 in <a href="/archive/114.html">#114</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/09/building-your-own-moose.html">Building your own Moose</a><br>
   Moose by itself is already scrumptious, but most of us top it with  MooseX:: extras to make it even better. In this article, Ovid shows how  to shave on the boilerplate that the import of all those extra modules require.
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   2013.10.14 in <a href="/archive/117.html">#117</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/10/the-problem-with-perl-testing.html">The Problem With Perl Testing</a><br>
   The Perl testing culture. Is it good? You betcha. Is it perfect? Not even remotely close. Ovid brings up this laundry list of the typical sins we commit in our test suites, and how we can, and should improve on it.
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   2013.10.18 in <a href="/archive/117.html">#117</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/10/fighting-20-year-old-software-bugs.html">Fighting a 30-year-old software bug</a><br>
   Halloween is approaching, and in that spirit Ovid shares with us the terrifying tale of how he battled an ancient evil, born of an Age all but forgotten.
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   2013.11.08 in <a href="/archive/120.html">#120</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/11/a-tiny-code-quiz.html">A Tiny Code Quiz</a><br>
   Think you know Perl? Ovid has an itsy bitzy little quiz for you...
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   2013.11.17 in <a href="/archive/121.html">#121</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/11/porting-testclass-to-the-p5-mop.html">Porting Test::Class to the p5-mop</a><br>
   Ovid has reimplemented Test::Class::Moose as Test::Class::MOP
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   2013.11.17 in <a href="/archive/121.html">#121</a>
   <a href="http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/11/context-and-the-comma-operator.html">Context and the Comma Operator</a><br>
   Apparently I missed the <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/11/a-tiny-code-quiz.html">Tiny Code Quiz</a> Ovid posted last week, but now chromatic took upon the task to try to explain the seemingly (?) unexpected behavior of perl.
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   2013.11.19 in <a href="/archive/122.html">#122</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/11/testclassmop-now-has-an-is-testcase-trait.html">Test::Class::MOP now has an 'is testcase' trait</a><br>
   Ovid continues his work on the perl5-mop based port of Test::Class.
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   2013.11.30 in <a href="/archive/123.html">#123</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/11/why-are-fast-tests-important.html">Why Are Fast Tests Important?</a><br>
   Great story by Ovid about the BBC, and why reducing the test run-time can increase the productivity of your team.
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   2013.12.12 in <a href="/archive/125.html">#125</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/12/single-process-versus-parallel-tests.html">Single process versus parallel tests</a><br>
   Ovid discusses the advantages of running tests in parallel - which are quite obvious (you get home earlier) - or maybe it isn't? He also describes his work on Test::Class, and Test::Class::Moose to make parallel processing a possibility there too.
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   2013.12.26 in <a href="/archive/127.html">#127</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/12/merry-christmas-parallel-testing-with-testclassmoose-has-arrived.html">Merry Christmas! Parallel testing with Test::Class::Moose has arrived</a><br>
   If you were looking for a Christmas present, here is one from Ovid. He says he can make your test 24 times faster. Or, at least, the one he had was made so much faster. Oh, and he is using Parallel::ForkManager. Luckily, I just fixed a stupid bug there that I introduced a while ago.
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   2013.12.26 in <a href="/archive/127.html">#127</a>
   <a href="http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/12/profile-your-tests-one-test-class-per-file.html">Profile Your Tests (One Test Class Per File)</a><br>
   chromatic agrees with 90% of what Ovid write in <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/12/accidentally-duplicating-tests-with-testclass.html">a different article</a> but does not tell us the 10% he disagrees with. But then he goes on explaining why he thinks using Test::Class was probably a good choice in their case. If you write tests, and I really hope you do, then it is worth reading these articles and thinking about the implications.
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   2014.01.08 in <a href="/archive/129.html">#129</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/01/why-i-didnt-submit-a-patch.html">Why I Didn't Submit A Patch</a><br>
   It's a harsh reality, but it stands to reason: for your project to get  contributions, you have to reduce the hoops the wannabe contributors has to jump through  to as close as zero as possible. That can mean, amongst other things and for better or worse, having your project using the VCS and/or hosting site that is the de-facto standard in your community. Ovid explains how, in his case, that made the difference between investing time into pushing a patch, or not.
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   2014.01.12 in <a href="/archive/129.html">#129</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/01/major-testclassmoose-update.html">Major Test::Class::Moose Update</a><br>
   A new version of Ovid's Test::Class::Moose is out. Parallel testing is now supported, along some other nice goodies.
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   2014.01.14 in <a href="/archive/130.html">#130</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/01/ditching-a-language.html">Ditching A Language</a><br>
   Ovid explains why replacing the programming language and rewriting your whole application might not solve all your problems after all, and how much can it cost you. Maybe your job?
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   2014.01.18 in <a href="/archive/130.html">#130</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/01/testing-random-dice-rolls.html">Testing Random Dice Rolls</a><br>
   Ovid shows how to check if the dice you are rolling (with your computer program) are cheating, or if the randomization works correctly.
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   2014.01.20 in <a href="/archive/131.html">#131</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/01/test-suite-organization.html">Test Suite Organization</a><br>
   Ovid explains why mirroring the class-structure of your module in the tests as well is a good idea, and also gives some tips how to go about doing it.
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   2014.02.06 in <a href="/archive/133.html">#133</a>
   <a href="http://www.allaroundtheworld.fr/blog/2014/02/06/making-our-training-material-public/">Making our training material public</a><br>
   Curtis 'Ovid' Poe, who runs the company called 'All Around the World' with his wife, has released some of their test-training materials under the Creative Commons by-nc license.
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   2014.02.10 in <a href="/archive/134.html">#134</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/02/using-dbixclassschemaloader-to-find-design-flaws.html">Using DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader to find design flaws</a><br>
   DBIx::Class is a pretty useful piece of software. Ovid, however, takes it one step further and leverages its mechanisms to help in the design and sanity-check of database schemas.
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   2014.02.16 in <a href="/archive/134.html">#134</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/02/easy-fixtures-with-dbix-class.html">Easy Fixtures With DBIx::Class</a><br>
   Testing with databases is typically hard and messy. Yet, sanity might shines at the end of the tunnel: Ovid has a new way to manage those unruly fixtures.
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   2014.02.21 in <a href="/archive/135.html">#135</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/02/use-dbix-class-via-delegation-instead-of-inheritance.html">Use DBIx-Class via delegation instead of inheritance</a><br>
   
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   2014.02.24 in <a href="/archive/136.html">#136</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/02/easier-database-fixtures.html">Easier Database Fixtures</a><br>
   Ovid improved DBIx::Class::EasyFixture eliminating half the lines you had to write for setting up some data in a database for testing.
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<li>
   2014.03.13 in <a href="/archive/138.html">#138</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/03/perlqa-hackathon-in-lyon---day-1.html">Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 1</a><br>
   
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   2014.03.14 in <a href="/archive/138.html">#138</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/03/perlqa-hackathon-in-lyon---day-2.html">Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 2</a><br>
   
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   2014.03.15 in <a href="/archive/138.html">#138</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/03/perlqa-hackathon-in-lyon---day-3.html">Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 3</a><br>
   
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   2014.03.16 in <a href="/archive/138.html">#138</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/03/perlqa-hackathon-in-lyon---day-4.html">Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 4</a><br>
   
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   2014.04.06 in <a href="/archive/141.html">#141</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/04/custom-dbixclass-resultsets.html">Custom DBIx::Class ResultSets</a><br>
   DBIx::Class's resultset classes are often slim, logic-less affairs. But Ovid shows us here how  they can also be used to create a much smarter interaction with the database.
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<li>
   2014.04.08 in <a href="/archive/142.html">#142</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/04/why-companies-turn-me-down-for-contracts.html">Why Companies Turn Me Down For Contracts</a><br>
   The story telling capabilities of Ovid are clearly good. In this article, he explains how searching for the next contract takes away time he could spend on writing open source code, and how you could help by getting your employer to hire him.
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   2014.04.10 in <a href="/archive/142.html">#142</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/04/the-hidden-benefit-of-data-driven-programming.html">The Hidden Benefit of Data-Driven Programming</a><br>
   
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   2014.05.07 in <a href="/archive/146.html">#146</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/05/using-perl-on-red-hats-openshift-cloud.html">Using Perl on Red Hat's OpenShift Cloud</a><br>
   Ovid explains how to use this Platform as a Service (PaaS) system to avoid the need to handle sysadmin tasks while building a web application.
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   2014.05.16 in <a href="/archive/147.html">#147</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/05/automatic-variable-highlighting-in-vim.html">Automatic variable highlighting in vim</a><br>
   If Vim is your editor of choice, you have to see this new utility  Ovid brilliantly stole and adapted for our Perlish needs.
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<li>
   2014.05.19 in <a href="/archive/147.html">#147</a>
   <a href="https://www.gittip.com/Ovid/">Curtis 'Ovid' Poe</a><br>
   Ovid is a long-standing member of the Perl community. He blogs, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Perl-Curtis-Poe/dp/1118013840">wrote books</a>, and did amazing work for the Perl testing toolchain (he's amongst things responsible for <a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Class-Moose">Test::Class::Moose</a>). Outside the Perl sphere, he also maintains a second <a href="http://www.overseas-exile.com/">blog providing tips and pointers to expat workers.</a>
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<li>
   2014.06.10 in <a href="/archive/151.html">#151</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/06/sick-of-being-mocked-by-unit-tests.html">Sick of being mocked by unit tests</a><br>
   Ovid has used to much mocking and it hurt. The bottom line: don't overdo it. He also embedded an excellent video, a conversation between Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and David Heinemeier Hansson.
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<li>
   2014.07.04 in <a href="/archive/154.html">#154</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/07/making-git-bisect-more-useful.html">Making git bisect more useful</a><br>
   When hunting down the moment a bug has been introduced in a codebase, 'git bisect' is a blessing. Ovid reminds us here that the labeling of the different commits as 'good' or 'bad' can be automated, making the search for the commit where all went wrong all the faster.
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<li>
   2014.07.05 in <a href="/archive/154.html">#154</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/07/procedural-quest-generation-in-perl.html">Procedural Quest Generation in Perl</a><br>
   For his MMORPG game, Ovid needs to generate quests. He shows us how that can be fairly easily achieved with a little bit of code.
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<li>
   2014.07.11 in <a href="/archive/155.html">#155</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/07/finding-unused-variables-in-your-template-stash.html">Finding unused variables in your Template stash</a><br>
   Ovid offers us the first draft of a cruft-busting tool that aims to detect variables that are pushed to the templates but never used.
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<li>
   2014.08.12 in <a href="/archive/160.html">#160</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/08/creating-an-mmorpg-in-perl.html">Creating an MMORPG in Perl</a><br>
   Ovid discusses at a high-level the challenges and intricacies that goes  in writing a MMORPG.
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<li>
   2014.08.13 in <a href="/archive/160.html">#160</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/08/quickly-check-for-database-design-flaws.html">Quickly Check for Database Design Flaws</a><br>
   Database schemas are hard to get right. Ovid tries to help us along the way, and shares a quick checks that is likely to make some of its flaws come out of the woodwork.
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<li>
   2014.08.27 in <a href="/archive/162.html">#162</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/08/try-rakudobrew-and-play-with-concurrency.html">Try rakudobrew and play with concurrency</a><br>
   Apparently, Ovid got excited by recent improvement in Rakudo, tried it and even wrote about it. Moore's law is coming to an end. Easy-ish threading is the solution.
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<li>
   2014.09.18 in <a href="/archive/165.html">#165</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/09/understanding-behavior-driven-development.html">Understanding Behavior Driven Development</a><br>
   Ovid, who knows quite a bit about testing and Agile software development has just started to like BDD and Cucumber. He shows what is a good and a bad 'story' and how the good 'story' can be easily expressed in  Test::Cukes, the Perl implementation of Cucumber.
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<li>
   2014.10.10 in <a href="/archive/177.html">#177</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/12/the-mooserole-required-attributes-bug.html">The Moose::Role Required "attributes" Bug</a><br>
   Annoyed that you have to punt 'with' statements at the very bottom of class declarations? Read on, as Ovid has a workaround for that.
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<li>
   2014.10.24 in <a href="/archive/170.html">#170</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/10/what-do-managerless-companies-look-like.html">What Do Managerless Companies Look Like?</a><br>
   Ovid posted a link to the video of his opening keynote from YAPC::EU this year, also on YouTube.
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<li>
   2014.10.30 in <a href="/archive/171.html">#171</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/10/veure-update-missions.html">Veure Update: Missions</a><br>
   Veure is an MMORPG created by Curis 'Ovid' Poe in Perl with some nice images.
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<li>
   2014.12.04 in <a href="/archive/176.html">#176</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/12/using-role-as-partial-classes.html">Using Roles as Partial Classes</a><br>
   Curtis Poe describes how roles can be treated as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_(computer_programming)#Partial">partial classes</a>, a concept in some languages, where a class can be split into multiple files. A bit like roles, you might be thinking. 
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<li>
   2014.12.04 in <a href="/archive/176.html">#176</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/12/a-small-puzzle-for-you.html">Pretty-printing multiple arrays</a><br>
   Curtis Poe posted a small programming challenge, and a bunch of people gave their solutions (in the comments, gists, etc). 
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<li>
   2014.12.17 in <a href="/archive/178.html">#178</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/12/ziprecruiter-wants-you.html">ZipRecruiter Wants You</a><br>
   <a href="https://www.ziprecruiter.com">ZipRecruiter</a> is a job board startup based in California, and they're looking for Perl developers. A few people you might have heard of already work / contract there, and they allow remote work.
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<li>
   2015.01.07 in <a href="/archive/181.html">#181</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/01/can-you-provide-an-xy-point-class-in-other-languages.html">Can you provide an x/y Point class in other languages?</a><br>
   Ovid needs you! He's crafting a Perl 6 presentation, and as a comparative exercise, he needs to have implementations of the classic Point class written in different languages.
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<li>
   2015.01.26 in <a href="/archive/184.html">#184</a>
   <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Ovid/perl-6-for-mere-mortals">Perl 6 for mere mortals</a><br>
   Ovid shared the slides for his FOSDEM talk ahead of time.
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   2015.02.04 in <a href="/archive/185.html">#185</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/02/a-little-thing-to-love-about-perl-6-and-cobol.html">A little thing to love about Perl 6 (and COBOL)</a><br>
   The article shows the result of the following expression: 1/(.1 + .2 - .3)  and why is not what you expect.
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<li>
   2015.02.22 in <a href="/archive/187.html">#187</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/02/avoid-a-common-software-bug-by-using-perl-6.html">Avoid a Common Software Bug By Using Perl 6</a><br>
   Curtis shows how Perl 6's gradual typing can prevent certain types of bugs in your code. He throws some other Perl 6 titbits in as well.
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<li>
   2015.03.05 in <a href="/archive/189.html">#189</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/perl-6-for-mere-mortals---fosdem-video.html">Perl 6 for Mere Mortals - FOSDEM Video</a><br>
   The video from Curtis's talk at FOSDEM just over a month ago. Videos from <a href="http://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-perl/">some of the Perl talks</a> are available, but not all of them have complete audio, alas.
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<li>
   2015.03.19 in <a href="/archive/191.html">#191</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/dbixclassreport---generate-ad-hoc-dbic-classes-from-sql.html">DBIx::Class::Report - generate ad-hoc dbic classes from SQL</a><br>
   Wouldn't it be nice if we could just take a chunk of arbitrary SQL and get a resultset from it? - Ovid asks and responds to himself with the release of DBIx::Class::Report. But when would you need it?
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<li>
   2015.03.21 in <a href="/archive/191.html">#191</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/tiny-games-with-perl-6.html">Tiny Games with Perl 6</a><br>
   Rolling unicode dice with Perl 6.
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   2015.05.11 in <a href="/archive/199.html">#199</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/05/veure-arbitrary-mission-actions.html">Veure: Arbitrary Mission Actions</a><br>
   Ovid continues his series about the game, code-named Veure, that he's developing.
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   2015.07.13 in <a href="/archive/208.html">#208</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/07/testing-your-sqitch-changes.html">Testing your sqitch changes</a><br>
   Sqitch is a is tool (written in Perl) to manage changes in databases. Of course it is not perfect, but some of its flaws can be avoided, or at least detected by a simple test script Ovid shares with us.
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   2015.09.05 in <a href="/archive/215.html">#215</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/09/dave-cross-and-modern-perl.html">Dave Cross and Modern PERL</a><br>
   Following Dave's YAPC::EU lightning talk, Ovid shares some real-life code he saw in the wild. Warning: the code you're about to see may makes you groan, sigh, or heartfully head-desk.
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   2015.09.14 in <a href="/archive/217.html">#217</a>
   <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D2vDtkBRAg">Turning points</a><br>
   Ovid talks about past turning points in the history of Perl, and the one approaching, when Perl 6 is released. He argues that we should see this as an opportunity to promote both Perl 5 and Perl 6, and the community. For example, <a href="http://perl.com">perl.com</a> could really do with a facelift before the big day. Duration: 55 minutes
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   2015.09.15 in <a href="/archive/217.html">#217</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/09/fluent-interfaces-in-perl-6.html">Fluent interfaces in Perl 6</a><br>
   This started as a short post about Ovid adding a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface#Perl_6">Perl 6 example</a> to the wikipedia page on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface">fluent interfaces</a>. But it became a discussion (in the comments) on what fluent interfaces are all about.
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   2015.09.18 in <a href="/archive/217.html">#217</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/09/improved-dbixclass-usage-with-arbitrary-sql.html">Improved DBIx::Class usage with arbitrary SQL</a><br>
   Ovid's <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class::Report">DBIx::Class::Report</a> module makes it easy to run ad-hoc SQL queries in your <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class">DBIx::Class</a> code, and now he's added the capability to define additional methods on each result.
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   2015.10.14 in <a href="/archive/221.html">#221</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/10/divas-need-not-apply.html">Divas Need Not Apply</a><br>
   A rant by Ovid on how some Perl programmers cannot communicate properly. Not even when it is about finding a new job. Though it is unclear if he refers to some of the people in the active Perl community or other people who 'just' use Perl.
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<li>
   2015.11.21 in <a href="/archive/226.html">#226</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/11/improved-syntax-highlighting-in-the-debugger.html">Improved Syntax Highlighting in the Debugger</a><br>
   If you do enough testing then you won't need much debugging, but if you do, you might want to see that in color.
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   2015.12.04 in <a href="/archive/228.html">#228</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/12/the-veure-mmorpg-saga-continues.html">The Veure MMORPG Saga Continues</a><br>
   Ovid teases us with can be described as a tantalizing textual trailer to his upcoming space MMORPG, Veure.
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<li>
   2016.01.06 in <a href="/archive/234.html">#234</a>
   <a href="https://twitter.com/OvidPerl/status/684746161563947014">Get off my lawn</a><br>
   This tweet from Ovid kicked off a number of discussons, blog posts, tweet storms, and an <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2016/01/perl6wow.html">eye roll from Aristotle</a>.
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<li>
   2016.01.22 in <a href="/archive/235.html">#235</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/01/a-naive-sql-shell.html">A Naïve SQL Shell</a><br>
   Indeed. A very limited reimplementation of DBI::Shell.
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   2016.03.15 in <a href="/archive/243.html">#243</a>
   <a href="http://techbeacon.com/perl-not-dead-it-was-early-web-novices-gave-it-bad-name?beta=1">Perl is not dead: It was early web novices that gave it a bad name</a><br>
   Curtis keeps beating on his "battle-tested" drum, that he introduced at least year's YAPC::EU. Perl may not be hip, but it's doing just fine, thankyouverymuch.
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   2016.03.16 in <a href="/archive/243.html">#243</a>
   <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9UdvxMAbo">Perl 6 — Why People Are So Excited</a><br>
   A video of Curtis's talk at FOSDEM earlier this year. The audio for the first 3 minutes is sadly borked, but stick with it.
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   2016.04.08 in <a href="/archive/246.html">#246</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/04/private-moose-attributes.html">Private Moose Attributes</a><br>
   Curtis shows how they've been creating private Moose attributes in a project he's working on, and in the comments other people have shared how they do it.
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   2016.04.11 in <a href="/archive/247.html">#247</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/04/perl-6-the-game-of-thrones-of-programming-languages.html">Perl 6, the Game of Thrones of Programming Languages</a><br>
   In which Ovid points to his article and wonders if the awful title was worth it?
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   2016.04.18 in <a href="/archive/248.html">#248</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/04/veures-test-suite.html">Veure's Test Suite</a><br>
   In case you are interested how Ovid is actually writing and running tests.
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   2016.05.04 in <a href="/archive/250.html">#250</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/05/why-i-try-to-avoid-perls-punctuation-variables.html">Why I try to avoid Perl's punctuation variables</a><br>
   A discussion on the classic theme of "things you can do but probably shouldn't unless you really, really like mobs, torches and pitchforks."
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<li>
   2016.05.19 in <a href="/archive/252.html">#252</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/05/veures-database.html">Veure's Database</a><br>
   Ovid takes us through some of the database-related decisions they've made while working on their Veure game.
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<li>
   2016.08.30 in <a href="/archive/267.html">#267</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/08/announcing-veure-at-the-perl-conference.html">Announcing Veure at The Perl Conference</a><br>
   At YAPC::EU, Ovid officially announced the game that we've been hearing about as Veure. It has been launched as <a href="http://taustation.space">Tau Station</a>.
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<li>
   2016.10.25 in <a href="/archive/275.html">#275</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/10/tau-station-updates.html">Tau Station Updates</a><br>
   
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   2016.11.04 in <a href="/archive/276.html">#276</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/11/seeing-the-sql-in-dbixclass.html">Seeing the SQL in DBIx::Class</a><br>
   Ovid found it hard to find out what SQL was being run by <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class">DBIx::Class</a>, and showed how he does it. In the comments you'll see that there's an easier, but perhaps hard to discover in the documentation, way to do it.
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   2016.11.20 in <a href="/archive/278.html">#278</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/11/easily-clean-up-a-teams-remote-git-branches.html">Easily clean up a team's remote git branches</a><br>
   Ovid wrote a blog post about how he cleaned up git branches for his project <a href="https://taustation.space/">Tau Station</a>
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   2017.01.18 in <a href="/archive/287.html">#287</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2017/01/i-hope-to-see-you-at-fosdem-in-brussels.html">I hope to see you at FOSDEM in Brussels</a><br>
   
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   2017.03.23 in <a href="/archive/296.html">#296</a>
   <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2017/03/saving-your-test-suite-history.html">Saving your test suite history</a><br>
   Test::Class::Moose::History helps you know which tests have failed on master and when? Which tests are fragile and which are robust?
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