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Friday·20·January·2006

My second technical test at IMDB

If a `SELECT` is running too slowly how would you debug it?

why not index a bunch of individual fields in a database

`Class::DBI` iterators - how are they implemented? Are they efficient?

how does CDBI differ from other `DBIx::*`

least favorite Perl feature

what are you going to learn next about Perl?

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Wednesday·11·January·2006

Perl competency test (imdb)
I took a small but good competency test when interviewing at imdb.
The cvs module name is `imdb-perl-test` and it should be available via viewcvs in 3 hours.
Ah here it is

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