David Oswald

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• Commented on A call to action for CPAN authors
  I think I understand that position. But what does it profit us? We're here now, it's not going away. However, we've all benefited from the labor and intellectual capital represented by CPAN. And I'm sure we have people in the...
• Posted A call to action for CPAN authors to David Oswald

  CPAN authors should look at the smoke tests for their modules to ensure that they're passing on Perl 5.18. The hash randomization change (and a few others) has bitten many a module that may currently be relying on undefined hash behavior. If you haven't checked your modules recently,…

• Commented on A call to Salt Lake City prospective Perl Mongers
  The Salt Lake Perl Mongers website is now online. It's sparse, but at least provides a useful link to share when promoting the group: http://saltlake.pm.org...
• Commented on A call to Salt Lake City prospective Perl Mongers
  To Doran and Matt (and anyone else reading along: The old emailing list has been revived: saltlake-pm@pm.org List subscription info is at http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/saltlake-pm The website will follow. Also there's a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/515481075169254/ (Salt Lake City Perl Mongers) I've had...
• Posted A call to Salt Lake City prospective Perl Mongers to David Oswald

  I have enjoyed actively participating in the Los Angeles Perl Mongers and Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers groups, but recently relocated to Salt Lake City, UT. So, what stands between Salt Lake City and a Perl Mongers group? You (you know who you are). Anyone interested in…

• Posted Bytes::Random::Secure -- A no-fuss CSPRNG. to David Oswald

  There are a lot of contributions on CPAN that fill one niche or another with respect to pseudo-randomness generation. What is hard to find is a solution that provides cryptographically secure pseudo random number generation, reliable and strong seeding, a light-weight dependency chain, and cross…

• Commented on A Simple Mojolicious/DBI Example
  This is a nice, simple example. Howoever, I think that any application written as an example of using DBI with Mojolicious should provide the good example of database connection management. Eventually that connection is going to be dropped....
• Posted Creating a Perl web application on dotCloud to David Oswald

  I've been working on a project for a client that is being hosted on dotCloud. And as part of the process I have spent a good deal of time familiarizing myself with this PaaS provider. My experiences thus far have been quite positive. I've found dotCloud to…

Comment Threads

• Joel Berger commented on A Simple Mojolicious/DBI Example

  That logic would almost certainly go in the db helper. I think that would make for an excellent follow-up post! Go for it. In truth I use DBIC mostly so I don’t need to handle that myself, therefore I don’t trust myself to write it.

• rlauer commented on A call to action for CPAN authors

  I'm not sure I would have been so sarcastic, however the posting had me asking a similar question.

  I hope a change that breaks so many CPAN modules was vetted by the community before it was promulgated (my guess is it was). I am not as plugged into such cutting edge versions like 5.18 of Perl as I tend to use the most stable version include in standard distros.

  Hopefully, the first comment will tease out some discussion of the broader question regarding how such changes are decided upon and what benefit they provide the community when clearly there will be many people unable…