john napiorkowski

• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on Perl Open Report Framework 0.901 released
  Ralf, You might not be getting the comments you are looking for... Why not try getting all this stuff in an open repository, like on github? Sometimes that helps since people can browse around the code without having to download...
• Commented on Alien::Base Final Report
  Thank you for your very hard work on this project, which I consider vital to the future of the way we install software with Perl....
• Commented on 30 Million Reports
  Amazing! Anyone have stats like this for NPM, or Rubygems? John...
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  Well, I'd love to propose a grant but I am not sure if the scope of stuff I'd do would be of interest. Here's some things that I am working on and work work on them more if I coould...
• Commented on $3M says Perl5 needs a new major version number
  I think you've pointed out a major part of the problem. We fail to exploit our existing network to raise money. Now, raising big money is not just about having the money available for work, it means that the people...
• Commented on My Prediction
  Hi, Just to clarify, in my blog at http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2013/02/who-cares-what-version-number-perl-is.html I am not really saying I am for or against version number branding with Perl, I am saying I don't think version numbers are the problem, nor will they in my...
• Commented on 17.4% of CPAN uploads have no license in the META files
  I would also point out that some upstream repackagers of CPAN distributions can be picky over the how the license is presented. I've been contacted once or twice by debian maintainers asking me to fix some parts of my license...
• Commented on The indirection benefits for Perl on LinkedIn
  Everything we can do thats as trivial as adding yourself to a linkedin group, there's really no reason not to do it. I have a recruiters FAQ project over here (https://github.com/jjn1056/perl-recruiting-web) that could use a home and comments, for people...
• Commented on Creating a perl developer survey
  I think this is a great idea and this is a good start. I'd personallt be interested in how people view the future of Perl, what current and upcoming Perl projects are exciting or important and what things they wish...
• Commented on The Joy of Perl
  Thanks for your thoughts, and for sharing your history! Glad to have you as part of the community....
• Commented on Map of CPAN - The Movie
  Very Cool!...
• Commented on Mojolicious: an unexpected result
  To be honest I see a sort of soft anti CPANism all the time. And its not related to Mojolicious. Quite often companies have trouble using CPAN (because they are using a system or built in Perl, not using local-lib,...
• Commented on Alien::Base Beta Release!
  Hi, I’m on Mac OSX Mountain Lion and all those modules you mentioned (Alien Base and the Acme modules) installed just fine. I wonder how much effort to port the various Image::Magick stuff to this… That’s probably the #1 busted...
• Commented on Why Perl Needs Screencasts
  I'm building a small TODO style application for a demo at work. I'd be interested in doing a screen cast. I'll message you...
• Commented on Using jqGrid with Catalyst: Tutorial with Examples for Newbies
  Hey, Great writeup! The Catalyst Dev Team has created a space on github for example applications (https://github.com/perl-catalyst/CatalystX-Examples) and we'd love to help you get you app over there. Feel free to hit me up on #catalyst-dev (I'm jnap)or email jjnapiork@cpan.org...
• Commented on Why I'm considering dropping Perlmonks
  I'm sorry that you got attacked for pointing this out. This is not about being 'PC' or whatever, is just about human feelings. Strange, this thing isn't even really very funny. Can't understand it......
• Commented on Hello, world.
  Welcome to the community! I'm jnap on many of the various irc channels, feel free to ping me if you need some help. It appears I am INTP John Napiorkowski...
• Commented on YAPC through the eyes of a recruiter
  I appreciate Carla taking the time to step up with these comments. I think it would be a great idea to start building some documentation aimed at helping recruiters understand the Perl community better, and understand how to find good...
• Commented on YAPC::NA Will Be Televised!
  Thanks, I will ask my IT dept to start helping me figure it out! John...
• Commented on YAPC::NA Will Be Televised!
  Do we know what the feeds will be? I'd like to get my IT dept to setup some monitors here at the office so that people not going can at least watch. Thanks!...
• Commented on My first perl blog
  Welcome to the community! johnnapiorkowski...
• Commented on Alien::Base Perl Foundation Grant Report Month 2
  Great work on one of the most important missing parts of CPAN, IMHO....
• Commented on I love Github
  Javascript is number 1 because everyone has to include jquery, etc inside their package right :) I don't think they are doing a lot of sophisticated work for the counts. For example, do they count all forks for a project?...
• Commented on I love Github
  I wish Github would start loving Perl as much...
• Commented on Explaining Web Programming via Plack
  The main thing that plain old plack won't have out of the box is some sort of built in templating. This is easy to graft in, but is not really a documented part of the ecosystem, since typically we think...
• Commented on Explaining Web Programming via Plack
  In the Perl class I taught last year, newbies really liked straightup Plack, and I found it let me concentrate on teaching Perl, instead of teaching a web framework. When I did reach for a framework I used Web::Simple, which...
• Commented on Sponsoring CPAN Testers
  My boss is going to ask me, "how much?" can you give us some details about how much it costs to run the server for 1 month, 1 year etc? Also, can you shed some light on what you might...
• Commented on Test::DBIx::Class
  Dear Wolfgang, I'm glad the module helped you out and I am also happy to see a sweet, shortened version of the copious documentation. Actually, I have been long thinking of busting this module into several parts since after I...
• Commented on Dance with rose in one hand....
  Awesome! But why not put this out on Github where other people could poke and prod it a bit? Is a neat piece of Perl advocacy. Thanks! --Johnn...
• Commented on @dotCloud loves Catalyst apps: Up-and-running in 10-minutes (#Perl in the cloud, Part III)
  Just FYI, the up-coming release of Catalyst will be Plack native, so you won't need to specify a PSGI engine, nor do the symbol linking of app.psgi as you mentioned in your code. For backwards compatibility the existing PSGI engine...

Comment Threads

• Tatsuhiko Miyagawa commented on 30 Million Reports

  Travis CI has evolved from Ruby and supports node, python as well as Perl. They have disabled stats so i don't have numbers for that, but most rubygems (including mine) has Travis enabled and has the CI status in its README.

  Having said that, Travis != CPAN testers, where you have a bunch of distributed machines on different platforms, testing your CPAN uploads which is indeed very cool stuff.

• Joel Berger commented on Perl Open Report Framework 0.901 released

  Also, and admittedly I've never tried it, but there is a site called PrePAN devoted to getting comments on new modules. http://prepan.org/

• kennygatdula commented on Alien::Base Final Report

  I set myself up as a cpantester and submitted a report for Acme::Ford::Prefect. I hope it helps and thanks for your hard work.

• Joel Berger commented on Alien::Base Final Report

  Thanks, that wasn’t the failure I expected :-/. Also the real problem is not the directly submitted tests but the automated smokers (which have a subtle but different way of testing than manual submitters). Thanks though I will look at that test!

• jpr65 commented on Perl Open Report Framework 0.901 released

  Hi,

  thanks for your comments. The tarball linked in this blog contains everything, I have.

  To add POD documentation to the sources will be the next development step. Also writing some howtos.

  Ralf.