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[2010-11-30] Tainted Perl: For Your Dirtiest Input
When writing a program that relies on data coming from outside sources, it is always a good idea to place checks on your data to make sure that there is no funny business going on. There are various ways of doing this, and a good programmer knows to add them in. There is always room for improvement though, and everyone makes mistakes. One thing you can do to ensure that no bad data is getting through to your system is to run your perl program in Taint Mode.
[2010-11-16] Improved Exception Handling in Perl 5
Exception handling, or simply error handling, in Perl 5 has always been a matter of using eval on statements and then using conditional statements to check special variables for any possible error codes and responding appropriately. Many pitfalls exist in in this method including the scope of the special variables or their state, and the ancillary code can make readability and maintenance more troublesome.
[2010-11-02] An Alternative to LWP and LWP::Parallel
The benefit of using a Perl library is that you can instantly tap the knowledge and experience of one or more programmers who have already sought out and accomplished what you wish to harness from a given library. However, when utilizing an unmaintained library, you often run into new problems that have arisen since the library was maintained.
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