Barbie

• Website: barbie.missbarbell.co.uk
• About:

  Leader of Birmingham.pm and a CPAN author. Co-organised YAPC::Europe in 2006. Responsible for the YAPC Conference Surveys, helping to improve YAPCs every year. Also the current caretaker for the CPAN Testers websites and data stores.

  If you really want to find out more, buy me a Guinness. Just don't ask the obvious ... Grep has been for 10 years and is still no closer ;)

  Links:
  Memoirs of a Roadie
  Birmingham Perl Mongers
  CPAN Testers Reports
  YAPC Conference Surveys

Recent Actions

• Posted QA Hackathon Website Update to Barbie

  The QA Hackathon website has had a bit of an update today. Primarily a new page and new photos have been added, but plenty of other updates have been included too.

• Commented on QA Hackathon Website on GitHub
  Done :) Thanks Gabor....
• Posted QA Hackathon Website on GitHub to Barbie

  Not before time, I have finally released the underlying files that run the main QA Hackathon website. If you want to have a play, please go to the following GitHub repo:

• Posted YAPC::Europe 2012 - The Survey Results to Barbie

  The Conference Survey Results for YAPC::Europe 2012 are now online.

  Many thanks to the 124 respondents, who made up 37% of the attendees. Although we…

• Commented on The return of CPANDB and the (alpha) Top 100 website
  You might want to look at an alternative to the cpanstats.db, as it will be decommissioned at some point. It currently has far too many errors, which don't seem to disappear even when recreating the SQLite DB from scratch. The...
• Posted UsePerl and Other Stories to Barbie

  I've just released new versions of my use.perl distributions, WWW-UsePerl-Journal and WWW-UsePerl-Journal-Thread. As use.perl became decommisioned at the end of…

• Commented on The Conference T-Shirts
  Brilliant, save a long sleeve for me ;) They can be really handy for the gigs I do during the winter months :) Love the back-print....
• Posted YAPC::NA 2012 - The Survey Results to Barbie

  The Conference Survey Results for YAPC::NA 2012 are now online.

  Many thanks to the 165 respondents, who made up 37% of the attendees. Although the re…

• Posted YAPC::NA 2012 - Talk Evaluations sent to Barbie

  The talk & tutorial evaluations have now been sent out to all the speakers from YAPC::NA 2012 in Madison. If you were a speaker and haven't received your evaluation, please check your spam folder first. If you still can't find it, email me and I'll resend you a…

• Posted Every Day Is Exactly The Same to Barbie

  Recently Mark Keating of the Enlightened Perl Organisation created a new Google Calendar for Perl community events, particularly for Perl Monger group meetings. As I haven't been updating…

• Posted YAPC::NA 2012 Survey now closes Saturday to Barbie

  Due to server issues last night, a number of people were unable to submit their surveys. As such I have now reset the deadline to midnight on Saturday, so you have an extra day to complete your surveys and evaluations.

  Unfortunately, the backup process ran last night and filled up the disk…

• Commented on YAPC::NA 2012 Survey closes Friday
  The backup maxed out the server this morning. All sorted now. Sorry for the disruption....
• Posted YAPC::NA 2012 Survey closes Friday to Barbie

  The Conference Surveys for YAPC::NA 2012 will close this Friday. Of the 447 listed attendees, we've had 110 responses to the main conference survey, 404 talk evaluations and 7 course evaluations. All this is great, but it would be even greater to see even more responses.

  If you attended th…

• Commented on CPAN is all broken, now
  In that case, I would consider your changes to be broken. See: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/33267be8-a901-11e1-b995-c5a3320db69d Now have a look at the POD in that file, it's all ASCII. There is a UTF-8 character in the file, but not in the POD....
• Commented on Cross Posting to blogs.perl.org
  Could you elaborate on how you got the API key. I tried following the instructions you pointed at, but dev.blogs.perl.org doesn't exist. Doing the same for blogs.perl.org doesn't show any "Web Services Password" or "Reveal" text or link, on the...
• Posted Parisienne Walkways - 2012 QA Hackathon (Part 2) to Barbie

  And so to the final part of my notes from the 2012 QA Hackathon.

  After asking several times, Andreas thought he finally understood what the dates mean on the ="h…

• Posted Party In Paris - 2012 QA Hackathon (part 1) to Barbie

  I'm currently at the 2012 QA Hackathon working on CPAN Testers servers, sites, databases and code. It has already been very productive, and already I have two new module releases.

  This module was or…

• Posted Israeli & German Perl Workshop Survey Results to Barbie

  For those that follow the conference surveys, you'll be pleased to hear that I have now put the results of both the Israeli Perl Workshop and the German Perl Workshop…

• Posted London Perl Workshop 2011 Survey - Results Now Online to Barbie

  London Perl Workshop 2011 Survey Results

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• Posted How Soon Is Now? to Barbie

  The YAPC Conference Surveys site has now been updated with the results of the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop and the German Perl…

• Commented on German Perl Workshop 2011 - Speaker Evaluations
  My mistake. I cut-n-pasted from two different places! Apologies to all, and post has now been edited. Thanks....
• Posted German Perl Workshop 2011 - Speaker Evaluations to Barbie

  I have now sent out all the talk evaluations from this year's German Perl Workshop or more correctly Der 13. Deutsche Perl-Workshop. If you were a speaker and haven't received an email, please check your spam folders first, and let me know…

• Posted Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2011 - Speaker Evaluations to Barbie

  I have now sent out all the talk evaluations from this year's Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. If you were a speaker and haven't received an email, please check your spam folders first, and let me know (barbie at cpan . org) if you don't find it. The mail will…

• Commented on German Perl Workshop day 1
  Don't forget to submit feedback for the talks :) See email for your keycode login....
• Posted YAPC::Europe 2011 Survey Results to Barbie

  During August this year, in Riga, Latvia, YAPC::Europe brought together 285 people to learn, discover and discuss Perl. As previous attendees know the YAPC conferences are a perfect opportunity to introduce yourself to the Perl community. YAPCs are now…

• Posted Deadline for YAPC::Europe 2011 Survey Submissions to Barbie

  The deadline for submissions of the YAPC::Europe 2011 Conference Survey and Talk Evaluations is tomorrow. If you attended YAPC::Europe in Riga, and haven't already done so, please take some time to complete the survey and give your feedback both to the current organisers and future organisers.…

• Posted YAPC::NA 2011 Survey Results to Barbie

  During June this year, in Asheville, North Carolina, YAPC::NA assembled 251 people together to learn and discuss Perl, Perl projects and meet Perl people. The YAPC conferences are a perfect opportunity to tell the Perl community of your latest project,…

• Posted YAPC::Europe 2011 Surveys Update to Barbie

  With over a week gone since the end of YAPC::Europe 2011, I'm please to see we already have 102 Conference Survey responses and 541 Talk and Course Evaluations submitted. This is once again a fantastic start to the responses and very much appreciated.…

• Commented on My Talks from YAPC::Europe 2011
  Oops. Fixed now. Thanks :)...
• Posted My Talks from YAPC::Europe 2011 to Barbie

  Earlier this week I attended YAPC::Europe 2011. Many thanks to Andrew, Alex and all the others involved with bringing the conference to life, it was well worth all the effort.

  …

Comment Threads

• clargo commented on CPAN is all broken, now

  rm'ing Test/Pod.pm makes everything better. Hooray!

• Joel Berger commented on YAPC::NA 2012 Survey closes Friday

  Thanks. I left the window open overnight and when I hit submit this morning it worked like a charm. Go do your surveys people! :-)

• :m) commented on The Conference T-Shirts

  I am so looking forward to my first YAPC :-)

• Olivier Mengué (dolmen) commented on The return of CPANDB and the (alpha) Top 100 website

  Feature request: link the distribution name in CPAN Top 100 reports to deps.cpantesters.org results where we could see the details.

• Joel Berger commented on The return of CPANDB and the (alpha) Top 100 website

  Just a tiny thought, but perhaps excluding Author plugin bundles (ie Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle) namespaces would give a more interesting list.