Smylers

• About: Perl developer based in Leeds. Half-time for Webfusion, t'other half freelance, and a sideline in writing questions for BBC4's ‘Only Connect’. Previously worked for ‘The Register’ and run Perl training courses for Yahoo!, Microsoft, Sony, and the Nationwide building society among others. Keep being allowed back to speak at Yapc Europe conferences, despite a habit of presenting non-Perl topics.

Recent Actions

• Commented on YAPC::Europe 2013 in Kiev, week minus 32. First results
  Thanks, Andrew....
• Commented on YAPC::Europe 2013 in Kiev, week minus 32. First results
  Thanks for all your work so far on the conference. Are you planning on there being a partner's programme, as there have been at some other Yapc Europes? We're trying to work out whether my spouse and our baby (born...
• Commented on cpantimes
  Thanks. That sounds really nifty. I shall give it a go shortly. If Test::Reporter and Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase are required, why not mark them as prereqs in App::cpantimes, so they get installed automatically?...
• Commented on YAPC::Europe 2013 in Kiev, week minus 42. Food
  I've liked all the conference-provided lunches at previous Yapc Europes. If you can find a way of providing lunch, that'd be fantastic. But I also didn't mind in Belfast and Vienna having to go and find lunch elsewhere. Chatting in...
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  That of course works. However it does mean that the Vim instance is remote, which may be less convenient or responsive than running Vim on your local computer in some circumstances....
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Thanks for the tip....
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Thanks. Sorry, I haven't really used SFTP (I generally use SCP or rsync), so I'm not in a position to explain anything about it....
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Thanks. I shall look at Socat the next time I'm trying to do something along those lines. What are the advantages of Socat in the Corkscrew case? It seems that Socat is very general purpose, which is obviously is fantastic...
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Hi Alexy. Yes, I should mention how to keep remote commands running even if the connection drops. If that's the only feature you want then dtach may be better than Screen: it's a much simpler program which just provides that,...
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Hi Aristotle. Thanks for all those suggestions. I shall incorporate them in the next revision. Sshuttle seemers nicer for port forwarding/tunnelling too, especially with the -H option for automatically setting up hostnames....
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Thanks for that. That new -W option looks really handy. I'll also investigate those speed options....
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like I fixed the typo when you mentioned it, but didn't thank you....
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Hi rhesa. If you look in my acknowledgements section you'll see I already linked to Aaron's article, and used it as a source. (Also, Aaron was my keyboard monkey during the presentation.) I didn't mention that use of autossh because...
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Hi er0k. I did cover setting up port forwarding with LocalForward. It looks to me like -L is the same thing, just specified on the command line rather than in the config file. Or is there some other tunelling capability...
• Commented on SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
  Thanks for that. I'd recently learnt about ControlPersist but hadn't realized it was so new....
• Posted SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers to Smylers

  SSH has many features which are helpful when working regularly with files on remote servers; together they can give a vast increase in productivity over the bare use of SSH. If you regularly use SSH, it’s worth spending a little time learning about these and configuring your environment to make…

Comment Threads

• Toby Inkster commented on cpantimes

  They are needed to send reports but they're not actually required. If they're unavailable, cpantimes will complain loudly but still install packages.

  This way you can actually use cpant to install its own "prerequisites". :-)

• Toby Inkster commented on cpantimes

  If there's an error sending a report, then you should get a stack trace dumped to STDERR.

  It would be nice to also mention successfully sending a report. They annoying thing is that the test is run after cpanminus has printed "Building and testing $dist ..." but before it prints "OK\n". So if I want cpantimes to print anything, it needs to be between them. :-(

  Ideas for a good way to proceed would be welcome.

• Hercynium commented on cpantimes

  This is really great!

  Since cpanminus, one of the few reasons I still use CPAN.pm at all is to send test reports for dists that unexpectedly fail.

  Have you checked with miyagawa on getting this functionality into cpanm? Perhaps as a plugin? (I remember that cpanm was going to support plugins at one point but it looks like those plans were put aside some time ago)

• Ether commented on cpantimes

  It would be nice to also mention successfully sending a report.

  It would be *very* useful indeed to print the URL of the submitted report.

• Andrew Shitov commented on YAPC::Europe 2013 in Kiev, week minus 32. First results

  This question is still open.

  On the other hand, there are two attendees already who bought the "+1" ticket for the river cruise.

  It is amazing, that's true: my second child was born on 19 August this year :-) We think I should go to Kiev alone (but of course I will have much less time to spend with the family in Kiev than the attendees and even speakers). I'll raise the question in our org. mailing list today.