Guido Flohr

On April 5th, 2018 I had talked about Qgoda at the German Perl Workshop 2018. The video of the talk is now online.

The mere mention of Unicode in the context of Template Toolkit causes great wailing and chattering of teeth with many a Perl hacker. You will encounter double encoded UTF-8 or arbitrarily thrown in question marks in a seemingly random fashion. How can this be avoided?

I sometimes receive the good advice to make my regular expressions more concise with the /i modifier or using backslash character classes like \d, \s or the like. But I avoid them on purpose. Why?

On April 5th, 2018 I will talk about Qgoda at the German Perl Workshop 2018. Other than true multi-color, wide-screen slides being presented, these topics will be covered:

The best way to delete a pid file (or rather a lock file) is not to delete it. Doing so will almost always result in race conditions voiding the protection against parallel execution.

My new LaCie rugged USB-C drive showed only a capacity of 372 MB instead of the 4 TB that I had bought, when I formatted the disk on Mac OS X High Sierra. It turned out that I first had to create a GUID Partition Table (GPT) on it to use the full capacity.