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   2 This talk I'm going to go over things that you don't need to know if you just
   3 want to get by, but if you actually want to be good.
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   5 Ground rules:
   6 - If you have a question, get my attention and ask it. Don't save it until the
   7   end because the format of this talk doesn't lend itself to that.
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  11 I Use CPAN.
  12 X Use B::Deparse. https://metacpan.org/pod/B::Deparse
  13 X Know regular expressions.
  14 X Use Regexp::Debugger. https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Debugger
  15 X Write vim plugins in Perl.
  16 X Document your shell scripts with pod.
  17 X Understand calling context.
  18 X Understand execution phases.
  19 X Understand when to be terse and when to be verbose
  20 X Use Future::AsyncAwait. https://metacpan.org/pod/Future::AsyncAwait
  21 - Know some XS.
  22 - Know Unicode.
  23   - https://youtu.be/TmTeXcEixEg 2016 - A Million Billion Squiggly Characters - rjbs
  24   - https://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129 Best Stackoverflow answer, ever. - tchrist
  25 X Write your own boilerplate.
  26 X Write your own debugger.
  27 X Don't write your own debugger because there are already some awesome ones on CPAN.
  28 X Know the default perl debugger.
  29 X Write modern Perl.
  30   X Use some new features (postfix dereferencing, function signatures)
  31   X Moo or Moose
  32   X method signatures
  33 X Learn Perl 6
  34 - Learn another language.
  35   - Makes you write better Perl (maybe).
  36   - Can bring some good ideas from other languages back to Perl (PSGI, async await)
  37 - Know software design patterns.
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  39 Cool stuff:
  40 use aliased 'Big::Long::Package::Thing';
  41 my $thing = Thing->new;
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