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Perl DBI is not thread-safe!?
Recently I encountered the warning “Use of uninitialized value in null operation during global destruction” when working with DBI and threads, although DBI was not used inside the threaded code it did...
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Threads in Perl are broken
Ok, for most experienced perl programmers this is not new, but let me repeat it: Threads in Perl are broken. Really, really, severe broken. Do not use threads with Perl. Thread async is probably ok for...
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Perl: Wide character in print
Wanna get rid of these annoying “Wide character in print” warning perl gives you sometimes when dealing with unicode/UTF-8? Use binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); on STDOUT or the appropriate filehandle, and...
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Perl Best Practices
Recently I’ve read a really interesting book. A book every perl developer should read. At least have a look at Appendix B which lists all guidelines in a brief summary.
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VBoxAdm – Management-GUI for Postfix and Dovecot
Last weekend I’ve released a new web-based management GUI for Mailservers running Postfix and Dovecot. It is called VBoxAdm. Its features: All-in-one mailserver solution written in Perl (despite some...
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Handling salted passwords in Perl
While working on VBoxAdm I’ve came to a point where I did want to support salted passwords. Salted passwords however are a bit difficult since you need to extract the salt from the existing password...
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VBoxAdm: Mailinglist and API
A short status update regarding VBoxAdm. Mailinglist Finally I’ve created a Mailinglist: http://www.vboxadm.net/support.html#mailinglist Refactoring I’ve been refactoring the Code for a while to turn...
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