Hello, Sea Lion

6 Oct 2008

We visited the Portland Zoo today. Photo by cowboy_montgomery.

Plack::Request: not as read-only as it might seem

For me, one of the promises of [PSGI and Plack](http://plackperl.org) is to get away from direct use of the global %ENV hash in Perl....
Best practice for handling UTF-8 when percent-encoding?

In my [previous post](http://mark.stosberg.com/blog/2010/12/percent-encoding-uris-in-perl.html) I summarized the current state of Percent-encoding in Perl. One of my conclusions was that the perfect percent-encoding solution would...
Percent-encoding URIs in Perl

This post is about the current state of URI encoding in Perl. This is the problem space of being able to safely pass arbitrary text...
generating HTTP headers: sorted or unsorted?

Recently I've been reviewing how various Perl frameworks and modules generate HTTP headers. After reviewing several approaches, it's clear that there are two major...
The cost of saving sent e-mail

I don't tap my own phone. I don't xerox postcards before I mail them back from vacation. I don't take a voice recorder when...