awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

• Website: thelackthereof.org/
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• Commented on perl live coding
  This is very cool!...
• Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2013 -- Next Week! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  The 2nd Annual DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop is almost upon us! In case you haven't heard about it, we'll be having the Workshop in Baltimore this Saturday April 20, and have extra trainings on Sunday April 21.

  We have room for more attendees -- even day-of reg…

• Commented on A perl of your own
  Hmm. I'll have to look to see if I can use that to improve my 'everywhere' module. It is a pretty similar concept, except that 'everywhere' is designed to be used in your top-level wrapper script on a per-application basis....
• Commented on Web Scraping with Perl & PhantomJS
  Sounds totally cool, I'll check it out. You might also look into WWW::HtmlUnit, which is perl bindings for the java library. I've been using that at work for a long time now and like it quite a bit....
• Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2013 - Presenters Wanted! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Greetings!

  On April 20, 2013 we'll be having another DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop! Like last year, this will be a 1-day, 2-track conference celebrating all things Perl! The venue is very close to the train station in Baltimore, so it should be pretty easy to g…

• Commented on ORMs and Their Alternatives
  I don't think I understand - What do the stored procedures give you beyond what you would get from just having your MyProject::DB::Person run the INSERT/UPDATE statements directly?...
• Commented on Lacuna Expanse Goes Open Source
  I linked this to my coworkers for some good Moose and DBIx::Class reading. Thanks! --Brock...
• Commented on WWW::UsePerl::Server
  Fancy! Thanks! :)...
• Commented on NoiseGen: Generate Sound With Perl. Blips and Beeps.
  THIS TALK WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD. Or something....
• Commented on Ruby like code blocks in Perl
  You could do both $_ and the named param :)...
• Commented on Beginning with an end
  That's pretty cool even if it is too fast :)...
• Commented on Work progress on WWW::Mechanize::NodeJs
  WWW::HtmlUnit is certainly more heavyweight than firefox -- but not more heavyweight than firefox + a VM to run it on! :) (maybe headless X isn't so bad) None the less, I look forward to a v8 based server side...
• Commented on Work progress on WWW::Mechanize::NodeJs
  Also check out WWW::HtmlUnit for another solution -- works pretty darn well I say :)...
• Posted DC.pm September Meeting - Foundations of AJAX to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  At tomorrow's DC.pm meeting I'll be giving a talk similar to one I gave a long time ago at Phoenix.pm - a behind-the-scenes look at AJAX, targeting beginners. We'll discuss the history and cultural norms (aka Best Practices), as well as diving briefly into what is…

• Commented on Introducing Java::Bridge (really, this time)
  Not to say you shouldn’t continue your current line of work — but I’ve had some very good luck using Inline::Java when building bindings to the HtmlUnit library (see WWW::HtmlUnit). This includes subclassing and all that. Perhaps something to take...
• Posted DC.pm August 2011 Meeting - Devel::Peek to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Last Tuesday was our monthly DC Perl Mongers meeting.

  We variable to be used in different contexts. So, for example, let's say you start o…

• Posted Funky Function Filters in Perl6 to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  A while back I wrote about Funky Function Filters. Let me refresh your memory - we have a Python and a Ruby snippet and we translate it into Perl5. The code is a toy to show some fancy shmancy lambda…

• Commented on Starting to use File::ShareDir
  If you're running Dist::Zilla, you can use "dzil run". So I'm doing this: dzil run 'twiggy bin/myapp' You don't even need to add the -Iblib/lib, that is already set up via environment vars. Including the things needed for File::ShareDir, specifically....
• Posted Wish on a Whatever-Star to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  The "Whatever-Star" was at first alarming to me! I first noticed it when I learned how to shuffle an entire list. The Whatever-Star can do some other stuff, too. But that's ok, we'll start with this.

  my @shuffled = < alice bob carol dave erik frank >.pick(…

• Commented on Your Fantasy Perl Conference schedule
  Bring it....
• Posted DC.pm Rakudo-Star Pizza Party to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  We're starting our usual monthly DC Perl Mongers meeting a bit early this Tuesday (September 7th) to have a little pizza and celebrate Rakudo-Star! Arrive at 6:30pm at the Starbucks at 18th and K Street NW (call me, Brock, if you miss us and need to be let in,…

• Commented on HTML::FormHandler, KiokuDB, and Continuity
  Yeah I saw saw it (and mention it I think), though I'm not using DBIx::Class. Is it useful anyway? Perhaps it would be interesting to make HTML::FormHandler::Model::KiokuDB......
• Posted HTML::FormHandler, KiokuDB, and Continuity to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  I saw some article about HTML::FormHandler, and decided I'd give it a try. I'm probably not really using it as intended... and I'm also not pushing this confluence of tech nearly as far as it can go.

Comment Threads

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on A perl of your own

  nxadm, 'use true;' gets rid of the 1; and MooseX::AutoImmute demonstrates a solution for ->meta->make_immutable (in Moo, immutability happens automatically on first ->new).

  What I'm looking at here is a way to evolve a set of defaults without needing to understand any of the cleverer approaches - in my case, I think I'd rather have it imply 'use MyApp::Defaults;' or similar and centralize everything there with Syntaxt::Collector or sanity.pm or whatever - but I figured first I'd do the simplest thing that could possibly work and experiment.

  I've got a pull request outstanding…

• nxadm.wordpress.com commented on A perl of your own

  Never heard of "use true". Thx. The idea looks interesting.

  To nitpick: there are a lot of (potentially well written) admin/devops-code there that does not have a proper cpan project structure. It may be bad, but it's certainly a real world scenario, even for people writing modern Perl. I think specifically of longer nagios plugins, and the like. I guess it's impossible to make everyone happy, but it good to know what the limitations are.

  C.

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on A perl of your own

  nxadm, I think those people are as served as they're going to get by the capacity to have single-line feature bundles.

  Getting from 'one line' to 'no lines' requires a trade-off - in this case 'run this using the myperl script, or apply myperl-rewrite to it'. Doc patches making this clearer would be welcome, but you can't have 'no lines' and 'your old code still works', and I somehow doubt nagios would be amazingly impressed if we broke half the existing plugins to make it easier to write new ones :)

• Steven Haryanto commented on perl live coding

  Is the video running at real time speed? You sure are fast!

• vividsnow commented on perl live coding

  Not real time of course - this is condensed version, because it is boring to watch chars appearing one by one )