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Perl tutorials and courses

Modern Perl Web Frameworks

  • Mojolicious light-weight web framework with rainbows and unicorns.
  • Perl Dancer light-weight web framework to rock.
  • Catalyst The MVC web framework of Perl.
  • PSGI/Plack, the low-level superglue between Perl web application frameworks and web servers.
  • CGI, the Common Gateway Interface, for old-school web applications.

Object Oriented Perl

  • OOP, the classic way to write Object Oriented Perl code.
  • Moo, the Minimalist Object Oriented system for Perl.
  • Moose, the 'post modern' Object Oriented system for Perl.

Other Series

Projects and Collections

Code-Maven series

If you are a beginner, or would like to refresh your Perl programming knowledge, you can go over the Perl tutorial or watch the Beginner Perl Maven video course.

If you need to maintain a large piece of software written in Perl by other people in the last 5-10-15 years, that's a challenge. Especially if you did not get proper training in Perl. You are probably limited to a specific and old version of Perl. Check out, the Perl tutorial! You can probably skip the part about installing Perl, but the rest of the tutorial will be relevant for you.

Perl is often used in Test Automation. If you work in this field, or if you'd like to work in this field (it is much more fun to find bugs in other people's code than in yours :), then you can read the Perl tutorial and the series on Test Automation using Perl.

If you build new web applications - either privately or inside a company - you can start by reading the article comparing CGI, mod_perl and PSGI. From there you can go on reading the generic Perl tutorial or the articles on Mojolicious, Perl Dancer, Catalyst, PSGI/Plack, or even CGI, the Common Gateway Interface, for old-school web applications.

Recent Articles

Scalar value ... better written as ...

If you use warnings in your Perl code you might encounter this strange warning. It is especially strange as the code seems to be working as expected. Nevertheless this is one of the common warnings in Perl. You'd better understand it and get rid of it.

Without disabling warnings.


Scalar value ... better written as ...

Pro: Immediate writing to file - flushing in Perl without buffering

When we say we read from a file or write to a file in Perl (or any other language for that matter), we don't actually access the file directly and immediately. Instead of that we what we really do is that we ask the operating system to read from the file or write to the file using a "system call". The Operating system (Linux, OSX, Windows, etc.) will do the work on our behalf, but it will try to optimize.

So it won't go and write to the disk immediately when we ask it to write a few characters. Instead of that it will keep the request in memory in a "buffer" and will write it to the disk later, when the buffer is full or when the file is closed.


Immediate writing to file - flushing in Perl without buffering

Pro: delete an element from a hash

The delete function will remove the given key from a hash.


delete an element from a hash