Mark Allen

• Website: www.byte-me.org
• About: Singer, dad, nerd, not necessarily in that order. @bytemeorg

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• Posted Steal this for Perl hackathons to Mark Allen

• Commented on Thank You For Supporting Pinto!
  Thanks Jeff. That's incredibly generous....
• Commented on Introducing Net::EC2::Tiny
  @steven It's an admirable goal to strive for, but there are several ::Tiny modules which have non-core dependencies. That being said, I could easily revert the Moo and the URI::Escape portions of the code, but once you opt for SSL...
• Posted Introducing Net::EC2::Tiny to Mark Allen

  One of the fun / cool things about Perl is that it can easily inhabit that space between "too complex for bash" and "too insignificant to invest in a C implementation." In my opinion a lot of the command line tools for EC2 are pretty terrible - they have a large learning curve, a high amount of…

• Posted Pod::Perldoc at 3.19_01 to Mark Allen

  One of the things that brian d foy worked pretty hard on for Perldoc inside of 5.16 was better UTF-8 support. We found that there are a huge number of variables for getting good Unicode support out of the "man" formatting pipeline. perldoc internally uses the "podulators" distribution to turn…

• Posted Net::Amazon::EC2 0.22 released; supports AWS v2 signatures to Mark Allen

  I just released 0.22 of Net::Amazon::EC2 to CPAN which resolves RT #80407 about EC2 requiring version 2 signatures.

  Until today, this module had been using …

• Commented on I love Github
  Actually, the hardest part about submitting this patch was finding the github repo name. :)...
• Posted Please help improve Pod::Perldoc 3.17 to Mark Allen

  Pod::Perldoc is a "dual-life module" that ships with Perl core, but also sits outside of it. Over the weekend, I released Pod::Perldoc 3.17 which incorporates several bug…

• Posted DistZilla from one newb to another to Mark Allen
  I'm giving a talk tonight at Houston.pm about Dist::Zilla. The slides from the presentation are after the cut. Also, there's a set of links about DistZilla here.…
• Posted Exploit Git Hub tags! to Mark Allen

  If you put your Perl code on Git Hub, I'd like to encourage you to use a a feature that isn't (at all) intuitive: tags.

  Basic tags in git are a human friendly label that point to a certain commit. Basic tags don't have a git object associated with them so they're mostly for use on your loc…

• Posted Looking for Jeff Kim to Mark Allen

  I'm trying to contact Jeff Kim about his Net::Amazon::EC2 module. I have a repo on github that closes most of the open tickets on

• Commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...
  Very cool!!...
• Commented on Try the new perldoc
  Thanks for the pointers! I have an experimetnal branch of Pod::Perldoc on github exploring the Pod::Text::* family https://github.com/mrallen1/Pod-Perldoc...
• Posted Writing API clients in Perl and Python to Mark Allen

  I recently released a couple of API clients for the Ge.tt file sharing service, one in Perl and one in Python. (I am just a fan of the service, not an…

Comment Threads

• Joel Berger commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...

  I love GitHub and use it for all my development. Check me out https://github.com/jberger. Thanks for sponsoring YAPC::NA, see you there!

• Olaf Alders commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...

  I was pleasantly surprised to see Github on board as a sponsor. YAPC::NA 2012 is already shaping up very nicely. :)

• Steven Haryanto commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...

  @perldreamer: Well said.

  Besides, for public git repos it shouldn't matter which one you choose. They're sort of like offsite-backups. I've so far used github, bitbucket, gitorious, repo.or.cz, and it's just a matter of adding a couple of lines in your .git/config. But so far I'm most pleased with github (the attention to details in UI, the availability, the features). So go github!

• Joel Berger commented on Introducing Net::EC2::Tiny

  Actually I think its a fine precedent to set/follow that ::Tiny modules (especially those ones for not so tiny tasks) pull in Moo.

  ::Tiny doesn't have a strict definition. Sometimes it mean literally "few lines of code" and sometimes it means "just the foundational bits you need to do some task". For those latter cases, yours included, Moo is probably fine. IMO

• Aristotle commented on Introducing Net::EC2::Tiny

  ::Tiny guidelines.