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• Commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again
  During the hackathon, Aaron and I worked on using acme's WWW::UsePerl::Server to serve the old URL s(as pointed to by old bits of the Internet). use.perl.org is history worth preserving (other than by manually pasting broken links into the Web...
• Commented on Mobrater and White Camel Nominations
  I'm sure the nice people at PlainBlack can help you with this. :-)...
• Commented on Mobrater and White Camel Nominations
  How do we propose edits to the descriptions? Some of them could be improved a lot....
• Commented on Perl programmer humour
  In Test::Database, all database "drivers" end with the name of the DBD driver. Not really funny, though....
• Commented on Recreated comments for Perl in Catincan, an open source crowd funding proposal
  Regarding sponsored processing fees, this is exactly what the YAPC Europe Foundation does with the online payment system they offer to (European) Perl conference organizers....
• Commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?
  This graph shows the number of Perl conferences / workshops / hackathons over time. If you look at the 2008-2012 period, there have been 127 such events in 5 years. That’s 2 per month on average, over 5 years! No...
• Commented on A quick static file webserver
  Obviously, I didn’t understand the original post....
• Commented on A quick static file webserver
  There’s also wallflower, that does it for any Plack application. (Full disclosure: I wrote it.) When writing a static version of your application, there are a few things to consider, though....
• Posted Once a week, every week to BooK

  CPAN modules

  A year ago, Mark Fowler resolved to release a Perl distribution each and every week and invited other Perl hackers to do so.

• Commented on Chicago.PM Report - Scripting Git With Perl
  @dolmen: It's actually documented in the tutorial. I'll rework the documentation to make it more consistent. Thanks....
• Commented on Chicago.PM Report - Scripting Git With Perl
  It's so cool to see someone using my module. :-) In your code, I noted that you used: my $git = Git::Repository->new( work_tree => '.' ); Actually, in the case when the work tree is the current directory, you can...
• Commented on Please Publish Perl Events on the LWN.net Calendar
  I'm in the process of moving that conferences.yml file to github, and split it in several per-conference directories, to keep track of more data than just dates and URL. The .yml file itself should be generated at some point, instead...
• Commented on Sorry I can't dance, I'm holding on to my friend's purse
  Some more backstory bits: on the same conference evening, during dinner, I interviewed Alexis and Franck about Dancer for a good hour using Alexis' phone. I have a transcript of almost the whole interview, but never got around to publish...
• Posted Sorry I can't dance, I'm holding on to my friend's purse to BooK

  Don't you love static web sites? So easy to deploy, so intrinsically safe... On the other hand, writing all your HTML by hand, like in 1994 (before server-side includes, for example) is rather painful.

  Of course there are tools like Jekyll, but they kind …

• Commented on blog moved to domm.plix.at
  I've seen other people duplicate blog entries across several blogs, and that sounds right. Their blog is all about them, and they blogs.perl.org blog is the intersection of them and Perl. Indeed, the bigger reach is probably at blogs.perl.org, for...
• Commented on Activities in Frankfurt for you and your partners
  To help the cats herd themselves, I've put up a decidated wiki page for the self-organized partners at http://act.yapc.eu/ye2012/wiki?node=SelfOrganizedPartners ....
• Posted Acme::MetaSyntactic is back! to BooK

  After a hiatus of five and a half years, Acme::MetaSyntactic is finally back!

  For this version, I have split the distribution in two:
  

  
  
  • the "core" modules, available in the ="https://metacpan.org/relea…

• Commented on Being anti-social
  Years after reading (I don't remember where) the story of Blair Newman (of The WELL), I realize it probably made a strong impression on me. Thanks for update....
• Commented on Help us spruce up WhiteCamel.org
  The list on whitecamels.org is missing the 2009 recipients (Michael Schwern, Tim Bunce and myself), probably because the White Camel pages of perl.org didn't have any content about us....
• Commented on A/B Testing and Local Maxima (again)
  Which reminds me of the one big issue I have with blogs.perl.org: the front page doesn't have a "next" button that allows one to go have a look past the first few recent blog posts....
• Commented on Organizing the Perl QA Hackathon 2011
  I don't mind, please do....
• Posted Organizing the Perl QA Hackathon 2011 to BooK

  It's been almost a week since the Perl QA Hackathon 2011 in Amsterdam is over. As usual since 2008, a lot better than me about the work they achieved during these three days.

  In this post, I'd like to give some infor…

• Commented on Deploying Perl code with git, local::lib, Minicpan and cpanminus
  As the author of Git::Repository, I'd be interested in knowing the reasons why none of the existing Git wrappers (Git.pm, Git::Wrapper, Git::Class and Git::Repository -- the last 3 of them available on CPAN) didn't suit your needs....
• Commented on The Great Re-write of 2010: CGI::Session/Test::Database/DBIx::NamedDSN
  3) Also, in Test::Database::Tutorial, there is a talk about the difference between a dsn and a driver_dsn, but the code does not follow the docs. For example, when I used a dsn (in ~/.test-database) for Postgres, with a user...
• Commented on The Great Re-write of 2010: CGI::Session/Test::Database/DBIx::NamedDSN
  Before replying to your points, I must say Test::Database has been looking for users for a long time, and I'm sad to say that I have had very little return on the topic. I have tried very hard to make...

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• brian d foy commented on Mobrater and White Camel Nominations

  Yes, there are a lot of rough edges to MobRater. There isn't a way for anyone to merge or edit or delete entries. There are no admin controls at all for the content.

• Paul "LeoNerd" Evans commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again

  I occasionally find it useful to have the latest-but-one release off CPAN as well. Sometimes the latest release introduces a bug that I can avoid by using the previous release.

  Personally I tend to keep a rotation of three versions of every module. Whenever I upload one, I delete the now fourth-oldest version. Though occasionally I forget, so sometimes I just read down the "delete files" list looking for dists with more than three versions.

  I guess it's something crying out for some sort of automated tool that could at least tell me what I ought to delete.

• Dave Cross commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again

  BooK,

  I saw that when reading the QA Hackathon wiki just now. This made me very excited as it was only a couple of days ago that I considered doing that myself.

  So, how far did you get?

• Ether commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again

  > I occasionally find it useful to have the latest-but-one release off CPAN as well. Sometimes the latest release introduces a bug that I can avoid by using the previous release.

  Previous releases are still available after deletion via BackPAN -- and links to there are available on the metacpan page for the distribution. The only thing that wouldn't work the same as before is cpan clients (e.g. new cpanm) that seek to install a specific version, and even then, the clients could be updated to fall back to BackPAN if the dist is not found on PAUSE.

  Also, this plugin is availab…

• Steven Haryanto commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again

  Since old releases are preserved by BackPAN, I tend to keep only the latest releases in my CPAN directory. The reason for that is... there is an existing script/module to do that sort of cleanup for me: WWW::PAUSE::CleanUpHomeDir. I just use the script provided in the Synopsis with slight modification:

  https://github.com/sharyanto/scripts/blob/master/cleanup-pause-homedir