enlightened perl organisation

I saw the screen shots of Padre 0.46 in http://ahmadzawawi.blogspot.com/2009/09/whats-new-in-padre-046.html and thought I'd try it myself. I've got a non-threaded perl but potentially http://search.cpan.org/dist/forks will let me run without it. I've just spent the last hour trying to get http://sea [...]

I’ve been pretty busy/distracted lately. Normally I try to post 3 times a week about the cool things that I’m doing, but I haven’t this week because what I am doing isn’t that cool! Basically I started working on the printing subsection of our app at work and it’s not looking like a lot of [...]

I’ve got a lot of half written posts that I still need to complete, but I don’t want to let this blog stagnate. Quick! Time for an n things list – Three random Perl things that I’ve been using a lot recently: Default Prompts If you install Term::ReadLine::Perl you can provide defaults for interactive prompts in [...]

Another piece of old research. It’s so interesting, though, I can’t help putting a note up about it. In a piece of research released in 2000, Lutz Prechelt compared C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl.? (It’s gotten a fair bit of attention before, so it’s not new material) What’s so good is the fairly [...]

I prefer git, but have been spending a lot with subversion working on Module::Build. To give myself local version control when offline (I was on an airplane), I layered a local git repository on top of the subversion checkout. (Yes, there might be better ways to do this with “git svn” but not [...]

One of the most common problems people who have only recently arrived on the Padre team have is the creation of Wx code that, well, doesn't suck ass.

The API is rather opaque, badly documented (for now) and it's behaviour isn't always entirely obvious.

So when Sewi, who's been trying to make headway o [...]

As a result of YAPC::NA 10, I was inspired to get more involved in Social Media. The idea is to promote and learn about new technologies through Social Media while injecting a sane, intelligent under current of Modern Perl. I finally started to use my Twitter account. I’ve noticed the majority of tweets regarding Perl [...]

If you want to know which files contains a specific text string you can do: perl -nle '/find this/ and print $ARGV and close ARGV' file1 file2 ..... $ARGV contains the name of each file. ARGV is the filehandle for $ARGV. This one-liner searchs each line (-n option) for a match (/xxx/) and when it happens (and) prints [...]

I have received a lot of good feedback about my YAPC::Asia 2009 Moose course. Several people on IRC and Twitter thanked me. I got second-hand reports of students taking the course then immediately being able to write useful Moose code. That is nothing short of ideal. It makes me very happy that peop [...]

Daisuke Murase made Plack::Impl::Danga::Socket, the standalone web server that runs PSGI application. I made Perlbal::Plugin::PSGI that is a Perlbal plugin so you can combine with other Perlbal plugins. They both work in a single threaded Danga::Socket or Perlbal server process so your application is not supposed to do any blocking operations, but both support psgi.async callback so your applications can immediately return and then do the server side push or event based callback with event loop like AnyEvent. My Perlbal plugin code is solely based on Mart's Perlbal::Plugin::Cgilike which does, CGI-like (or rather mod_perl-like) handler dispatch. Today we've got more sophisticated (but still low level :) PSGI, so it's time to give it another try! Simple benchmark shows Danga::Socket standalone...

It is with great pleasure, and with some tardiness and lack of expedience, that I announce the London Perl Workshop to be held on Saturday 5th December at the University of Westminster’s New Cavendish Campus.[1] The theme for this year is Beginning Perl, which can be taken as Perl for beginners if one so wishes, or [...]

I'm going to introduce a fine piece of vaporware today. It's a harness I've started writing several times in different situations, one I've never let really bloom out into its full potential. Actually, I'm not sure what'll happen when it does. This time I intend to find out, for better or worse.

Time [...]

Imagine a client (Java)/server (Perl) set up. The client reads data from the server and based on the data it receives, it writes data back to the server. The client is running on a remote host and we can't run it locally. If the client receives data which indicates a major amount of writes, it sched [...]

今回のYAPCでも3人も社内のPerlハッカーがスピーカーとして出演していただ...

スピーカーの皆様、ほんでボランティアスタッフを含めお手伝いしてくれはったみなの...

I just spent the best part of an hour around a problem caused by the behavior of Perl prototypes. I used the following test case to figure it out: use Test::More tests => 1; use Encode qw( encode decode ); sub u8l1 { return encode('iso-8859-1', @_); } my $ola_u8 = decode('utf8', 'Ol?'); my $ola_l1 = encode('iso-8859-1', $ola_u8); is(u8l1($ola_u8), $ola_l1); The output of prove x.t is this: t/x.t .. 1/1 # Failed test at t/x.t line 12. # got: '1' # expected: 'Ol?' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1. t/x.t .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)...

Generalmente cuando escribo promoviendo Perl, lo hago a la defensiva, porque el estigma que le tienen encima es como exagerado, sin embargo me encontre este art?culo y no pude resistir la tentaci?n de copiar las oraciones, porque estan muy buenas.

Perl:

1. Tiene una librería gigantesca de código reutiliz [...]

I've recently been trying to improve my rather disorganized personal finances. While I previously "managed" by leaving the bulk of the money in my account and hoping that I'd calculated my expenses versus salary roughly correctly, this is suboptimal for answering various questions like "Do I have enough money to go on holiday?" or "Have I forgotten to pay [...]