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• Commented on blogs.perl.org needs your help!
  It would probably be worth putting a little explanation of how to work on it's development along with the repo. A quick look at the project suggests it's only got templates, so presumably you need to setup a companion Moveable...
• Commented on CPAN modules for generating passwords
  It's probably using /dev/random rather than /dev/urandom for a source. See man 4 random for a description of the differences....
• Commented on CPAN::Reporter fails to send through Metabase with new LWP 6
  Another alternative is to download the certificate for the site (pasting it into a file named cpantesters.pem should do) and then point LWP::UserAgent at it with one of the environment variables like PERLLWPSSLCAFILE. That will only work for that one...
• Commented on Perl memory management...
  I hit an out of memory type problem recently when pulling in a large file all at once. I just switched from the 32 bit machine I was using to a larger memory 64 bit machine and Perl to get...

Comment Threads

• szabgab.com commented on CPAN modules for generating passwords

  This is an excellent post. Thank you!

  A funny thing is that just a few days ago I was looking for a random string generator to generate e-mail validation code for a web registration form and the module I found and used was one that you have not even mentioned: String::Random.

  Is this because you though it is irrelevant or just because you have not saw that one?
  What do you think about that module?

• Neil Bowers commented on CPAN modules for generating passwords

  Heh, I hadn't come across that module. And it's led me to find some others as well! I've now got another 4 to look into, then I'll update this post.
  

• MeirG commented on CPAN modules for generating passwords

  Ho God, I wish many more types would be compared...

  For example, I assumed that SOMEBODY have created a gooood logger, right? Well, almost or rather too many. Searching search.cpan.org (just for "Distributions" mind you) fished out 468 results.

  How can one decide which one to use???

  Of course, a comparison must be based on a list of features, to which different people will attach different weights.

  Is anybody aware of such a comparison?

  And what about GUI packages?

• Gábor Szabó - גאבור סבו commented on CPAN modules for generating passwords

  NeilB, thank you for extending your post with the additional modules and in general for writing this up.

  The next best thing will be if someone finds a way too hook up this information to MetaCPAN so people searching there will easily see the alternatives. Will be able to read this article and compare the modules according to their needs.
  

• minty commented on blogs.perl.org needs your help!

  @colinnewell -- strange you should mention that, I have this week started on exactly that task.

  My main goal is an Amazon EC2 image of the site, which can be cloned, along with documenting the build process so others can replicate their own local dev instance of BPO in non Amazon environs and hack away on that.

  Right now I've got a vmware guest that is running the site - AND some notes on the build.

  Aside from creating an EC2 image out of that and cleaning up & publishing my bulid notes -- which I will be doing -- the main outstanding question is the DB.

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