Shantanu Bhadoria

• Website: www.shantanubhadoria.com
• About: I blog about Perl, Travel and Work

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• Commented on Memcached to the rescue
  Here is the problem that I see with these caching solutions. Why write so much code to retrieve one cached value??? my $content = $cache->get($key); unless ($content) { process_request(); $cache->store($key, $content); } $content = $cache->get($key); 5 lines to get one...
• Commented on Confessions of a Dist::Zilla newbie
  Welcome back!! Dzil has a steeper learning curve as I myself learnt a few months ago but it helps you to keep your repository clean if you use the right plugins you don't have to keep makefiles, READMEs etc. in...
• Commented on Perl Programming Certificate
  nevertheless this is the first time I heard of it. I might try my hand at the advanced or applied. its always good to brush up things, gives you a perspective on what you've learned since the last time you...
• Commented on Params::Validate::Dependencies
  Thanks I will take a look. Is this something on the lines of Moose::Role for non Moose packages?...
• Commented on A compelling reason for Perl6
  @perldreamer I just checked out WEBGUI. That looks great! It does need more convenient way to add plugins and extensions. Personally I would like to see a CMS that can remotely download and install new plugins from a repo at...
• Commented on A compelling reason for Perl6
  Nice article, but I disagree on the need to have a web framework with tighter integration with client libraries like Jquery? I think thats the kind of work to be left to a CMS? On that note we do need...
• Commented on Bangalore.pm meetup 6th August 2011
  Thanks guys! We are working hard for this. In time we will have critical mass, then we can breath easy. :) @Erez Thanks for your wishes for the Bangalore Royal Challengers :)...
• Commented on Acme::CPANAuthors::India
  Yeah you are right, I should have linked to the module. Sorry about that. Here you go : http://search.cpan.org/~shantanu/Acme-CPANAuthors-India-0.05/lib/Acme/CPANAuthors/India.pm...
• Commented on The Game Crafter
  Thanks for the post. It sounds very cool that you have produced 10k games! I will try this out....
• Posted Bangalore.pm meetup 6th August 2011 to Shantanu Bhadoria

  Last month we kicked of the meetups for the fledgling Bangalore.pm group. Our first meetup in July was attended by 3 devs including myself to kick things off, this saturday we had our second ever meetup of Bangalore.pm.
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• Commented on CPAN modules for generating passwords
  The problem with that option is that its not always the same platform. Not all platforms will support `pwgen`. Using command line interfaces makes the code highly platform dependent. It might work in cases where thats not an issue however....
• Posted Acme::CPANAuthors::India to Shantanu Bhadoria

  I just released the Acme::CPANAuthors::India today, Its based on the Acme::CPANAuthors. There are similar pre-existing modules for other countries and especially extensive ones for most of europe in the Acme::CPANAuthors::* namespace but…

• Posted File::UStore a UUID based File Storage Abstractor, Why would a temp folder not be writable??? to Shantanu Bhadoria

  Its been a few months since I released the File::UStore module to cpan and it has gradually attained stability over time. Not that there were a lot of bugs to begin with. Most of the bugs were in the tests rather…

Comment Threads

• illusori.myopenid.com commented on A compelling reason for Perl6

  Not having a web framework is certainly a reason for not using Perl 6, but that doesn't mean that having one is a reason to use Perl 6.

  Unless the framework offered something radically new, that provided advantage over other languages, there's no incentive to move to an unfamiliar language when there's literally a gazillion identikit frameworks out there for whatever language someone is already using.

  If I was the guy who had to choose between using a Perl 5 framework, PHP, Ruby on Rails, or choosing a new framework with no track record in an language that also has no track r…

• Diab Jerius commented on Params::Validate::Dependencies

  Nice. I submitted a patch to P::V a few years back to add mutually exclusive parameters (see bug 5701) but it wasn't accepted; would you be able to incorporate some of those ideas in your work?

• nikosv commented on A compelling reason for Perl6

  I think that there is a slow but growing shift from OOP to functional programming, and if Perl 6 can accommodate for it better than other languages, then it can get a good share of the market.
  Then, a mix of dynamic and static typing is required by a modern language that keeps the benefits of each.
  And, another strong and very attractive point is the Parrot VM which allows for dynamic language interoperability as well as, do(or should do someday in the future) PAST tree transformations and meta…

• David Cantrell commented on Params::Validate::Dependencies

  I've uploaded it to the CPAN. It already supports mutually exclusive parameters, via the one_of function.

  The four functions it makes available map to Boolean logical ops thus:

  none_of: NOT / NOR
  one_of: XOR
  any_of: OR
  all_of: AND

• Neil Bowers commented on Confessions of a Dist::Zilla newbie

  What do you use/do for larger projects Joel, and what's the straw that breaks DZ's back? Is there some problem that you hit, and then you switch away from DZ, or do you know from the start that a project's not appropriate for DZ?