Peter Rabbitson

• Website: search.cpan.org/~ribasushi/
• About: Musing on the pitfalls of the Swiss Army Chainsaw

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• Commented on Notes from a Newbie 16: Deploy
  Also another note on your comment but I am no Peter Rabitson higher up. Newsflash - Peter Rabbitson wasn't always Peter Rabbitson either. Almost exactly 6 years ago I came to Catalyst (DBIC came later) just like you did. I...
• Commented on Notes from a Newbie 16: Deploy
  Hi j0e, While I am excited that you asked me to help reach out to the future members of our community, I feel the strong need to decline. I am the kind of person who is driven by the negative...
• Commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community
  Definitely optional, but also sometimes bordering on free ;) Next post does in fact shape up to be a bovine massacre. Stay tuned!...
• Commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community
  Errr... Are you saying that if I disagree with chromatic and petdance it *automatically* makes me an asshole? :) All "civility free zone" means is that I reserve the right to call things as they are, with pleasantness taking a...
• Posted On the awesomeness of the Perl community to Ribasushi's civility-free zone

  The Perl community is AWESOME! Much has been said and written on this topic: a lot of it true, some of it not so much, and sadly a nontrivial amount of it FUD. Yet, since this is about Perl, there is definitely more than one way to say it. So I will tell you one more personal-ish…

• Posted Belated "hello world" to Ribasushi's civility-free zone

  O HAI o/

  As many of you know - I am a very late adopter. The time has come, however, when the amount of things I want to say about Perl and its community no longer fit in my TODO cache. So biting the bullet (…

• Commented on Notes from a Newbie Experiment 02: DBIx::Class
  Hi, and sorry myself for not replying earlier - life happened inbetween. Due to the amazing generosity of perl folk I will be attending YAPC::NA next month. I suggest we take care of this life. Looking forward to meeting you...
• Commented on perltricks.com - a new Perl website
  There is no such thing as DBIx - plase update your post. http://search.cpan.org/search?query=dbix&mode=all...
• Commented on Notes from a Newbie Experiment 02: DBIx::Class
  Hi Joe, I love your article series - they are *precisely* what Perl needs these days. I noticed[1] a number of inconsistencies in your grasp of some *concepts* of DBIx::Class. I would like to have a chat to address them...
• Commented on The Four Major Problems with CPAN
  It's actually parent (unless you really really like the fields pragma), although there isn't 100% consensus on this. Ether, stop parroting unsubstantiated stuff. The "fields support" slowing down base.pm is a myth. Please read what Brendan linked and consider adjusting...
• Commented on DBIx::DataModel - Elegant Database Interaction with Perl
  @autarch Please consider tracking the progress and hopefully participating in this new development: http://dbix-class.35028.n2.nabble.com/quot-the-apparent-complexity-of-it-all-quot-td7578005.html As far as the "horrid SQLA API" - eventually DBIC will accept other horrid APIs, including that of Fey. Ideally it will happen transparently, so that...
• Commented on DBIx::DataModel - Elegant Database Interaction with Perl
  One of the things that keeps preventing me from using DBIC (and thus so far I use raw DBI/SQL) is the apparent complexity of it all. I hear this sentiment a lot, but any time I reach out to ask...
• Commented on DBIx::DataModel - Elegant Database Interaction with Perl
  Just my 2c: there is a massive rewrite of a part of DBIC being public-trialed right now, which among other things addresses the benchmark you cite. Numbers before: http://paste.debian.net/plain/234081 Numbers after: http://paste.debian.net/plain/234080 The entire announcement: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2013-February/011109.html...
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  @tinita You get the first set of improvememnts for free fwiw: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2013-February/011109.html Of course there is a lot more work that can be done, I'll look into applying for a grant for next quarter (or sooner if the rules change)....
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  I very strongly considered submitting a grant for improving the performance and internals of DBIx::Class, but stopped short for the same reason as vti. I do not believe this will be a wide benefit to the perl community, and as...
• Commented on Perl 7
  I don't think any real user of perl5 wants a "Modern perl5", which will fail to run 90% of the CPAN. Perhaps you want a Moe?...
• Commented on Perl 7
  As a perl 5.8 (yes you read this right) die-hard I must state that I do not share in any way your feeling towards "granddad" and the "excited kids" playing with that "science project"....
• Commented on Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 22-October 28, 2012
  It's sadly too early for cheers. The only *independent* party who replied to the very core of my complaint was bulk88. That is "why is everyone silent when an obvious trainwreck is being designed". The rest of the massive thread...
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  I am not entirely sure what do you mean here... Perhaps I am indeed utterly misudnerstanding. What "possibility of backporting" do you mean here, given that the *need* for such backporting doesn't even exist....
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  In fact I got one better: the same puny 5.8.5 managed to successfully install Catalyst::Devel on top of Catalyst. Fueled by that success and by my masochistic tendencies I attempted to install MojoMojo[1] as well - that *also* (after a...
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  Sri, the bit about "can't be done/maintained for 5.8" is pure FUD. To substantiate this I just compiled a fresh 5.8.5[1] with -Dusemorebits and -Duseithreads on linux and successfully got `cpanm Catalyst` to completion[2] under that fresh perl. [1] Yes,...
• Commented on Deep Cloning
  $a and $b are global variables, which are reassigned on any sort invocation. I am pretty sure Data::Printer does not localize $a and $b when it does its sorting, hence the weird effects you see. The real workaround is to...
• Commented on Social diagnostics
  It is funny you used perl as the base for your metaphor. I would like to extend it a little further with these questions: Do you believe it is acceptable to change perl to have warnings enabled by default without...
• Commented on HTML-Tree 5: Now with weakref support
  I *cleanly* solved a problem identical to this about 2 years ago. I have been trying to get someone to factor this technique into a standalone module with a sane "entanglement API", bit to no avail. The technique is based...
• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  Call me crazy but if someone thinks I'm being asshole-y in any way, I'd like to be called out on it. Not have a fuzzy dance of fellating political correctness. Marc (not only, he just happened to be the topic...
• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  In my world, for every cry-baby (who overwhelmingly happens to be utterly unhappy with *ANY* community) there are 20 to 50 developers praising this very same community as being one of the most helpful and at the same time welcoming...
• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  Just because you can insult and degrade someone doesn't mean you should. Correct. And it is an individual choice. You have no right to publicly attempt to influence it. It is my strong conviction (not a mindless flamebait) that you...
• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  There's no reason he should need to. There's no reason that anyone should be subjected to verbal abuse. Is your moral white horse really that high that you can justify this kind of blanket censorship as a given? If I...
• Commented on How (not) To Load a Module or Bad Interfaces Make Good People Do Bad Things
  Hi, and sorry for resurrecting this old thread. This blogpost seems to be bookmarked among many fellow programmers, but it fails to even mention Module::Runtime, which (at the time of this writing) already was implementing everything you describe, except for...
• Commented on Scalar-only Perl
  Of course, it no doubt opens up whole new areas of doubt and uncertainty No kidding - you just assigned the result of flip-flop on lines 1/10 to $array :)...

Comment Threads

• Sawyer X commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  I was very happy to hear you got the tickets sponsored. Congratulations!

  I'll be glad to see you again. :)

• Joel Berger commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  I'm also glad you got the funding. I almost put in a few bucks, but being unemployed (having just completed my thesis) I backed out. Sadly its for the same reason that I'm not going, I wish I could afford it :-(. Oh well, hold the banner high! Enjoy!

• dagolden.com commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  "civility-free" implies to me that there will be no civility. I was sort of looking forward to watching you kill some sacred cows to the horror of the crowd.

  Maybe you mean "civility-optional" zone? :-)

• castaway.myopenid.com commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  Hooray, I hope you have a good time there!

• j0e commented on Notes from a Newbie 16: Deploy

  Peter,

  Good for you, more power to you, and thank you for your encouragement! I hope to discuss DBIx::Class concepts with you, and welcome your contrary, passionate side :-) as well. I look forward to meeting you.