.Net system programming video

Good review (or first view) of how GCs, threading, etc work under the cover.

Building Perl modules by hand

Two Perl posts in a row, but I was catching up on my Perl Advent calendar and realized I had never built a module by hand before, always relying on cpan or cpanm. It's not too hard and might save you one day.

Function signatures in Perl

I'm finally getting a chance to play with them and they seem great. Not the old prototypes, but brand new spiffy ones!

  sub some_function($a, $b) { 
  return $a + $b;
}
  

I think promises and futures are next on my Perl updating adventure