Perl Things I Have Found Useful

Oliver Gorwits oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Tue Dec 30 11:33:05 PST 2008


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Tom Hukins wrote:
> How did Perl help you work and play this year?

Well the one thing I could not live without isn't a Perl module, but
a Firefox trick I got from the excellent "Perl Hacks" (O'Reilly) book...

Tom mentioned a module I didn't know, so I cut and paste that into
the Firefox location/awesome bar like "cpan Test::Differences" and
hit return. This hack takes me straight to the CPAN page.

Create a new Bookmark with the Keyword set to "cpan" and the
Location set to "http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?%s".

Alternatively, something like
"http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module;query=%s" will perform a
search rather than jump to the module directly.

A bonus with the new Firefox awesome bar is that it remembers all
these prior hits, so just typing "cpan Test::Di<return>" takes me
straight back any time.

Great list Tom, and a happy New Year to you all!

regards,
oliver.
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Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group,
Oxford University Computing Services
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