David Golden: OS-specific prerequisites with Dist::Zilla
One of my long-standing annoyances with Dist::Zilla was that it didn't have means for doing OS-specific prerequisites. I had put off converting some distributions to Dist::Zilla because of that, but...
View ArticleCurtis Poe: Show Perl subname in vim statusline
I asked on the vim mailing list how to see the name of Perl's current sub/method in the status line and Alan Young, the author of PPIx::IndexLines has a great suggestion which unfortunately relied on...
View ArticleRicardo Signes: Will your perl remain supported -- and what does that mean?
Yesterday, I tweeted this:Remember, Perl shops: if you're still on 5.8 come April, you're on an unsupported legacy version. Current versions are 5.10.1 and 5.12.3A few people asked for more details,...
View Articlebrian d foy: The 2011 Perl QA Workshop, April 16-18 in Amsterdam
The 2011 Perl QA Workshop will be April 16-18 in Amsterdam, sponsored by Booking.com. If you show up, you might never leave.The QA workshop is perhaps one of the most productive workshops. Here are my...
View Articlebrian d foy: One more week for OSCON proposals
The OSCON Call for Proposals ends February 7th. In the Perl track, we're looking for:Perly stuff that deals with Javascript, JSON, or HTML5Who's going to do a Plack talk?Modern Perl or modern Perl.Cool...
View ArticleDavid Golden: Belated Modern Perl review
I purchased Modern Perl as soon as it came out and I read it right away. I meant to write it up a long time ago. Here's a copy of the review I posted to Amazon: I had a hard time characterizing this...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-02-01
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results : laaaame, Microsoft (tags: lamemicrosoftgooglesearchhoneypotsstings)Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308 : ie. the same value as the...
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Sebastian Riedel: Mojolicious and Plack
While Mojolicious contains a really nice built in web server, which makes especially development and testing very enjoyable, we also have first class support for PSGI and Plack. 123456% mojo generate...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-02-02
Michael “Liar’s Poker” Lewis on Ireland’s economic collapse : PDF of the 15-page Vanity Fair article — from interviews I’ve read in advance, this seems pretty good (tags:...
View Articleperl.com: Perl QA Hackathon 2011: Call to Attention
Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ has sent out a call for attention for the 2011 Perl QA Hackathon:The Perl QA hackathon 2011 is taking place from Saturday, April 16th to Monday, April 18th 2011 in Amsterdam, The...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-02-03
Spamwiki : good wiki tracking spam operations, their current campaigns, who’s doing it etc. (tags: wikispamanti-spam)Spammers Are Now Using Verified By Visa : Visa’s atrociously-designed “security”...
View ArticleSawyer X: Dancer FOSDEM mini-hackathon
I am honored to be sponsored by PEG, and I would like to thank them for it.A team of Dancer core developers (Alexis Sukrieh, Franck Cuny, Damien Krotkine and myself) will be having a mini-hackathon...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-02-04
Gamasutra – News – Opinion: Minecraft And The Question Of Luck : ‘Notch’s luck was that he came across the idea of doing a first-person fortress building game. His alignment was that the game that he...
View ArticleSawyer X: Changing the changelog
Dave Rolsky has written a compelling post on how not to write a changes log. It's ironic (or is it? the meaning of "irony" is illusive) that while I have much criticism for the changes log of others...
View ArticleSawyer X: Dancer FOSDEM fuel, first report
Friday and Saturday have been very productive days for Dancer. We wanted to write up this blog post yesterday night but we were waaaaay too tired for that. Instead, you get it this morning while we're...
View ArticleSawyer X: Bringing Mojolicious to the dancefloor
Dancer's engines is really cool. You wanna know how cool? Here's an example.If you like Mojolicious' templating system and you want to use it with Dancer, our interchangeable templating engines allow...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Irish Times “Most Read” Article Feed
If you visit the Irish Times at all frequently, you’ll probably have noticed a nifty “wisdom of crowds” feature in the right sidebar: the list of “most read” articles. It’s quite good, since they’re...
View ArticleCPAN Testers: CPAN Testers Summary - January 2011 - Wish You Were Here
Over the past few of months, various fixes and improvements have been made to the Builder process, which builds the pages and support files on the CPAN Testers Reports website. As mentioned in the last...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-02-07
No Sleep ‘Til Brooklands: A True Story Of Daily Mail Lies (guest post) : how the Daily Mail (UK) works, via b3ta. mind-boggling misuse of one woman’s comments to concoct a story, according to this...
View ArticleDavid Golden: Five Test::More features you might not be using yet
I've been using Test::More for so long that I sometimes forget about new features that have been added in the last couple years. If you're like me and would like a refresher, here's a list of five...
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