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If you've got one or more distributions on CPAN, then on CPAN Day you could go through them and see if there are any ideas you've had which aren't listed in the issue tracker (typically RT or github issues).

If you don't have any distributions on CPAN, then you could go through the modules that you regularly use and see if there are any issues you could raise.

I'll expand a bit on what I mean, and why it might be a good use of your time.

Are you sitting at home thinking "I've got all this free time, I really want to make use of it playing around with bitstrings using pack and unpack" ?

Your search is over! I need your help!

For some time now I have been chipping away at enhancements for Net::DHCP. Recently I have begun adding tests using packet captures from the real world. Naturally this has created a laundry list of possible enhancements including DHCP options which need special attention to make sense of.

That and the tangled web of quirky clients which require dhcp options to be in certain (non-numeric) order - for no logical reason.

I have a TODO list which is naturally just a list of ideas which some keen person with tie on their hands might like to help me with, check it out at: https://github.com/djzort/Net-DHCP/blob/master/TODO

Please fork and submit PR's!

It's hard to believe its August already! Catalyst-IT have offered to host us this month, so I went ahead and booked their board room.

What: Sydney PM
Date: Tuesday, 18th August 2015
Time: 6-9:30pm
Where: Catalyst, Suite 501-504, 89 York St Sydney NSW

The building locks it's doors at 6pm, so one of their staff will let us in. The same as Broadbean, SiteSuite and others. For stragglers, a contact mobile number will be posted on the SydneyPM email list the day before.

Please like our FB page and Join our FB Event

Hi. I continue to share some swat news. SWAT is automation test framework written on bash/perl and providing a simple DSL to rapidly create smoke tests for web applications.

Mojolicious is a ... ok ... everybody knows it :) - well known web application framework.

Recently I found it quite interesting idea of generating swat tests for existed mojo applications using routes introspection.

So this is how I created Mojolicious::Command::swat

This is a draft, I have not even uploaded it to CPAN, but if someone interested - may play with it - https://github.com/melezhik/Mojolicious-Command-Swat ...

This post is mostly geared towards Perl 6 newbies who plan to attend the Perl 6 Hackathon at the Swiss Perl Workshop 2015 in Olten, on Thursday, 27 August 2015.

First and foremost: Don’t be shy and come even if you have never contributed to the Perl 6 ecosystem. Neither have I, and I will be there. There are always tasks that do not require insights into the Perl 6 toolchain. This hackathon is pretty much a one-time opportunity for Switzerland. There will be a dozen of Perl 6 core hackers on site, and some of them will even help you get Perl 6 up and running.

Please add yourself to the list of attendees. We will then organise a seat and food for you. On the link mentioned, you will also find extensive information and links to preparational material. (Thank you, Wendy!) Most of the text below is copied from there.

Here's something odd; not sure if it's a bug or just something I don't understand.

I have a utility on my system called k8temp which reports the temperature of the CPUs. It reports it in Celsius, so I thought I'd write a little wrapper that converts the temps to Fahrenheit. k8temp outputs one line per core, so on my dual-core system, the output looks like this:

abaugher@bannor> k8temp
CPU 0 Core 0 Sensor 0: 38c
CPU 0 Core 1 Sensor 0: 38c
abaugher@bannor>

And piping it to a hex dump looks like this:

abaugher@bannor> k8temp|hd
00000000: 43 50 55 20, 30 20 43 6f, 72 65 20 30, 20 53 65 6e ;CPU 0 Core 0 Sen
00000010: 73 6f 72 20, 30 3a 20 33, 39 63 0a 43, 50 55 20 30 ;sor 0: 39c.CPU 0
00000020: 20 43 6f 72, 65 20 31 20, 53 65 6e 73, 6f 72 20 30 ; Core 1 Sensor 0
00000030: 3a 20 33 38, 63 0a                                 ;: 38c.

We've probably all got one or more modules that we're very thankful for. Maybe you use it again and again. Maybe the fact that it exists saved you from having to write it yourself. Maybe it's such a well-crafted module that you don't need to think about it, but always have it on your tool belt.

Maybe for/on CPAN Day, you could do or organise something related to that module, as a way to say thank you, perhaps to improve it for all of us?

Here are some ideas.

[From my blog.]