chimerix

• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on The clearest way(s) to check if a List contains...
  From 5.18, if warnings are enabled, using smart match will trigger a warning that the feature is still experimental. Yeah, that's really annoying. I had to use Carp::Always to figure out where those warnings were coming from in one of...
• Commented on Ruby's share drops on github, Perl's stays
  Yeah, github treats most xs perl distributions as c. It looks like there has been recent activity on the gitpan project [1]. If that works again, we'll shoot up in the stats. [1] https://github.com/schwern/gitpan...
• Commented on Recent work on ZMQ::LibZMQ3 and CZMQ
  Devel::CheckLib accepts a 'function' parameter which can be used to test the library interface....
• Commented on A Configurable HTML Parser
  Are there plans to make Marpa-powered backends for popular modules like HTML::TreeBuilder, and if so, how would it compare to HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML?...
• Commented on Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 29-November 4, 2012
  xxHash is even faster than Murmurhash3: https://code.google.com/p/xxhash/...
• Commented on RFC Module::Build::CleanInstall
  prepan.org is a good place to get feedback before releasing to CPAN....
• Commented on Why People Don't Like Mojolicious
  I was initially interested in Mojolicious, but when I asked about benchmarks a while back on the IRC channel, sri immediately went off on a angry rant about the uselessness of benchmarks. I immediately lost all interest in the project...
• Commented on Your Personal CPAN In The Sky
  gugod, CPAN is about sharing, and if you just toss random-named stuff into the pot, you wind up with a cesspool like Python's PyPi or Ruby's Gems. Their authors are frequently vain hipsters who appear to be in a contest...
• Commented on Thread pool for a boss/worker model
  Have you seen Parallel::Workers or Thread::Pool on CPAN?...
• Commented on Any::Moose is out, Moo is in!
  Is there a convenient way to specify many accessors at once, like you can with Object::Tiny, Class::Accessor, etc? If I have a dozen accessors and just want the simplest default accessors possible, can I do something like 'map { has...
• Commented on 10 Out Of 10
  I went to metacpan and looked up Toby Inkster's modules I checked out the module ratings and this person has some strong opinions on his modules: http://cpanratings.perl.org/user/seano As a general rule, useful (non-toy) modules are used and valued by others....
• Commented on Two new interfaces to Marpa
  Out of curiosity, if ::Thin is the raw interface, why not name it ::Raw instead? Searching CPAN, that seems to be the more established naming scheme....
• Commented on Find a misspelt module name
  why not print the list of installed modules from your previous version of perl, then run cpanm on the list? it's a common enough task and there are plenty of relevant search results when you google for it....
• Commented on Early set of YAPC::NA 2012 videos on Youtube
  thank you, it is much appreciated. the pre-event marketing for yapc was great on a day-to-day basis as their was a constant (yet annoying to some) stream of talk adverts, but the wiki was not very useful compared to previous...
• Commented on Reddit API for Perl
  The use of new top-level namespaces is also discouraged when existing ones will suffice: https://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_namingmodules#Top_level_namespaces . That's why I suggested using WebService....
• Commented on Reddit API for Perl
  Consider renaming to WebService::Reddit instead. The use of API in the module name is discouraged: https://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_namingmodules#Avoid_API_Interface_and_the_like...
• Commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning
  If each distribution is going to wrap a specific functionality, then you might be better off with something like Math::MonteCarlo::GSL? I seem to recall seeing similar naming schemes used, though I can’t think of an example right now. And I...
• Commented on Installing Oracle's BerkeleyDB and Perl's BerkeleyDB
  This CPAN rating is spot on: http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/BerkeleyDB#9728 WTF doesn't it try to locate the installed bdb header and library using commonly used methods? There are plenty of other distributions that are smart enough to do something similar. If needing a...
• Commented on Same feeds, less spam
  I'd also block szabgab, or spammy gabby as I like to call him. Another source to include is perlsphere.net and reddit.com/r/perl and with Yahoo Pipes, you might want to use the unique operator to prevent duplicate headlines from the different...

Comment Threads

• Tony Shadwick commented on Reddit API for Perl

  I'm a little confused as to how you are supposed to interact with retrieved links:

  my $links = $reddit->fetch_links(subreddit => '/r/perl', limit => 10);
  foreach my $current_link (@{$links->{items}}) {
      print $current_link->{'title'} ."\n";
  }
  

  That generates a whole bunch of warnings before printing the titles:

  Field distinguished is missing from package Reddit::Client::Link
   at /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4/Reddit/Client.pm line 403
  

  Am I doing it wrong?

• Tony Shadwick commented on Reddit API for Perl

  Also, installation from cpan consistently fails, FYI. :)

• salowrey commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  @chimerix I am a post grad student working in communications. Can you email me? I have a question for you. My email is annlowreycommunication@gmail.com I am a post grad student working in communications.

• salowrey commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  @chimerix I repeated myself… its late sorry!.

• Joel Berger commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  salowrey, the way this site is set up, there is almost no chance that chimerix will see your comment on this old post. Sorry.