Dana Jacobsen

• About: I've been using Perl since 1991 (4.010 or so). At some point I realized that while I have used many languages, I enjoy using Perl more than any others.

Recent Actions

• Commented on Factoring integers in Perl
  For clarification, this is looking at prime factors. A table for modules and prime factors vs. divisors: Module prime factors divisors ------------------ ------------- ----------- Math::Big::Factors factors_wheel - Math::Factor::XS prime_factors factors Math::Factoring factor - Math::Prime::Util factor all_factors Math::Pari factorint divisors Pari...
• Posted Factoring integers in Perl to Dana Jacobsen

  Recently I've been working on factoring and primality proofs (with certificates) for Math::Prime::Util. I thought I'd give a brief summary and comparison of the modules I know of for factoring integers from Perl.

• Commented on I love CPANtesters and Travis-CI
  I’ll second this. I love CPANTesters, and thanks to LETO for turning me onto Travis-CI....
• Commented on A couple of ideas for improving commenting/reviewing CPAN modules
  I just added a review (thanks for the push), and perhaps will add a few more. Many of the modules I use and feel like I have a review of are related to modules I've written. This makes me nervous...
• Posted Crypt::RSA without Pari to Dana Jacobsen

  Crypt::RSA is a module that's been around since 2001, when Vipul Ved Prakash put it on CPAN. It's had only very minor updates since then, and gets used by a few other modules. However, it's had one big problem: it uses

• Commented on Zotero/Perl integration
  Fantastic! I let all my bibliography software lapse years ago, but I'd be all over this if I wasn't doing other work. I used Zotero when I did my last degree and recommend it highly. Especially for storing not only...
• Commented on Identifying CPAN distributions you could help out with
  OK, so you shamed me into submitting patches. Well done! :) Based on the comments on Crypt::RSA I'm not sure if the author is still around however. Overall, I like the idea of something like this list. I like most...
• Commented on Identifying CPAN distributions you could help out with
  Hmm, I just submitted two bugs for Crypt::Primes, which probably made it go to the top. One would be pretty easy to fix, the other is a critical breakage and would require more thought, but isn't huge. But I already...
• Commented on Perl 5 Porters Weekly: November 26-December 2, 2012
  I would love it if we would move rand() to a standard RNG like MT or ISAAC, and then configuration would handle how to do a good default seed (O/S specific). Keep the srand interface. Randbits could be 53 everywhere....
• Commented on Have Lunch with a Perl Celebrity
  I'll look after talks. There absolutely was nothing there during lunchtime today. I walked the whole area multiple times...
• Commented on Have Lunch with a Perl Celebrity
  If only the poster boards were visible......
• Commented on Perl 5.16.0 installed
  I can't imagine why you'd have an old perlbrew, but just in case -- parallel testing was added in 0.18. Going into ~/perl5/perlbrew/dists, untarring perl-5.16.0 and going into that directory: 2 processor Core2 6400: 38s sh ./Configure -des 2m 14s...
• Commented on Mo Moo Moose
  That is neat. Don't forget Mouse in the hierarchy. You get a bunch more of Moose, but quite a bit faster than all of Moose (my current project runs 2x faster with Mouse vs. Moose, and it looks like a...
• Commented on How to remove a carriage return (\r\n)
  See man pages for perlre, perlrecharclass, and perlrebackslash. \v matches vertical whitespace, which are the characters shown above as of Unicode 6.0: [\x0A-\x0D\x85\x{2028}\x{2029}] \R matches these and multi-character newline sequences. This means it can't be used inside bracket character matches...

Comment Threads

• Steven Haryanto commented on A couple of ideas for improving commenting/reviewing CPAN modules

  Hi Ron, you're right. I even forgot about the list which I created last year.
  

• Steven Haryanto commented on A couple of ideas for improving commenting/reviewing CPAN modules

  BTW Dana, that's one very good review.
  

• Olaf Alders commented on A couple of ideas for improving commenting/reviewing CPAN modules

  If there were a cpanratings API, we would love to integrate it with MetaCPAN.

• jakoblog.de commented on A couple of ideas for improving commenting/reviewing CPAN modules

  Yes, we all are lazy. Having to log in with yet another account is a barrier. Much reviews are brief and quick, so they could be written ad-hoc like comments in a blog. I don't comment many blogs which require to create an account first, do you? (this comment is written signed in with OpenID by the way). Everything but login via Google/Facebook/Twitter/GitHuB/OpenID adds another barrier.

• tommy commented on I love CPANtesters and Travis-CI

  Really excellent post. Thanks for the tip to Travis-CI