Personal Perl programming 'best practices'

Blog entry for accumulating "best practice" notes.

Perl development workflow

There is a Perl module that I have been developing. It is now finding its way onto CPAN and the openSUSE Build Service; the process of reaching that goal, however, was a bit tedious -- hence this blog entry which will describe the workflow so I won't have to reinvent the wheel each time I want to do this again.

Text console: i18n, locales and UTF-8

Gone are the days of fiddling with configurations and fonts in order to get one's text terminal (or xterm) to display international character sets properly -- and good riddance! Still, even today it is still possible to misconfigure one's terminal. And what to do if you need to find the hex value of an international character, or vice versa?

Database programming with Perl and PostgreSQL

Assuming you have perl and PostgreSQL already installed and running on openSUSE.

Refer to this tutorial at TechRepublic.

Install the Perl DBI and the PostgreSQL database driver for the DBI:

# zypper install perl-DBI perl-DBD-Pg
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