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Over the holidays I was working on a project that needed to download content from different websites.

Validating untrusted input safely is critical for application security: SQL injection, XSS and malicious file upload are common attacks which succeed because the user’s input is not vetted correctly.

[Update: this is now an issue for Perl 7] If you’ve been programming Perl for a while, you’ve probably run into this exception: Foo.pm did not return a true value.

Perl has had great testing tools for a long time, but Test2 is the single biggest improvement to Perl testing in years.

Lately I’ve been reading Interconnections by Radia Perlman (great lastname!).

At work we have many developers committing code to a large Git repo, and a huge test suite which runs to check the software builds and operates correctly.