I am somewhat a regular listener to Off the wall and Off the hook I mentioned this to a Perl monger at some point and he recommended me to buy all of the back-issues of 2600 magazine. So late 2007 I did. The actual reception of the box with the issues is quite a story [...]

I have had a problem for quite sometime with some code. We refer to the code as the poor mans configuration management system. (the code snippets below have been shortened to not reflect the name space of the client in question). All in all it is a CPAN like distribution of files. Configuration_DEV.pm Configuration_TEST.pm Configuration_PROD.pm [...]