Sawyer X

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• Commented on Thank You For Supporting Pinto!
  Let me be the first to say: \o/ !...
• Commented on Belated "hello world"
  YOU'RE IN THE WRONG NEIGHBORHOOD, MOTHERFLUFFER!...
• 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. :)...
• Posted Interview with Pragmatic Perl in English to Sawyer X

  I was recently interviews to the Russian online Perl magazine Pragmatic Perl. It was a pleasure and truly an honor. The last issue just came out and the interview is appearing there in Russian. If you speak Russian, go ahead and

• Commented on Why You Should Help Crowd-fund Pinto
  Sounds like a great idea!...
• Posted Why You Should Help Crowd-fund Pinto to Sawyer X

  There are only a few more days left to chip in to sponsoring work on Pinto. If you're still unconvinced or haven't thought about it yet, let me give my point of view on why you should spare a few minutes and a…

• Posted My Perl Pitch to Students to Sawyer X

  I blogged about visiting Evozon and giving a Perl pitch talk to students, trying to get them interested in Perl. I've decided to share the draft I wrote a day earlier with the ideas I wanted to express. So, here it is:

• Commented on ::NonOO suffix for non-OO version of a module
  I like the "I wrote and uploaded this thing to CPAN, now I'm looking for a good name for it." - why not blog *before* that? Did you email the module-authors list as well? Have you consulted people on IRC?...
• Commented on Play Perl is a Startup
  Way to go! Congratulations and good luck! :)...
• Posted Cluj.pm Anniversary Meeting Report to Sawyer X

  So, I went to Cluj.pm's anniversary meeting this month. It's been a year since Cluj.pm was formed and I've been lucky enough to be invited to the event. Here's my report of it.

• Posted Recursive deferred promises to Sawyer X

  Hey, "recursive deferred promises" might sound like a smashingly complex idea, but really, it isn't. Here's the what, why and how.

• Commented on Put a fancy CPU/RAM usage chart in tmux status bar
  Awesome stuff!...
• Commented on The Joy of Perl
  Beautiful post, thank you!...
• Commented on cpantimes
  Why a fork? Are you now going to sync up with cpanminus on every release? Wouldn't that be a hassle and error prone?...
• Posted MooseX::Role::Loggable improvements (version 0.110) to Sawyer X

  I've released a new version of MooseX::Role::Loggable: 0.110. It provides some improvements and basically a more steady version of it.

  Here's a description of what it is, what the improvements are, and some of the considerations in doing…

• Commented on Booking.com dev blog goes live!
  Congrats! Pleasure to have more technical blogs, especially ones by actual companies, too....
• Posted Dynamic ACL for EC2 with Dancer to Sawyer X

  An in-house Dancer webapp that's running on EC2 needed an ACL (Access Control List): a list of IPs that are allowed to access the application. Here is how we've accomplished it in a few lines.

• Posted Net::Icecast2 is out! to Sawyer X

  My friend and co-worker Pavel Zhitomirsky, who also organized the last TA.pm meeting, has made his second CPAN contribution: Net::Icecast2.

  While trying to work with Icecast, he found that there is no Icecast 2 API on CPAN and decided…

• Posted no ident specified when using Log::Dispatchouli (MooseX::Role::Loggable) to Sawyer X

  Sometimes when working with the lovely MooseX::Role::Loggable you might encounter the following fatal error:

  no ident specified when using Log::Dispatchouli at Loggable.pm line 117.

  I keep running into this and re…

• Commented on YAPC::Europe 2013 in Kiev, week minus 42. Food
  If you include vegetarian options (that would be great) I suggest making them vegan. If the vegetarian dishes include dairy or eggs, vegans will have nothing to eat, really. It's cascading: everyone can eat vegan food, only vegetarians and meat...
• Posted Domain-based session affinity/persistency to Sawyer X

  So, here is another pretty cool feature I've implemented. It might interest you if you use multiple domains with reverse proxies.

  I was recently asked to add to Perlbal::Plugin::SessionAffinity the ability to allow …

• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  I don't understand what you mean... what switch has no other framework managed to do? Require 5.10 (thanks to a good backport)? I think other frameworks simply don't *require* newer Perls. Then again, this might actually be a selling point...
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  Dear god, where do you work?...
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  Excellent example for a situation I actually encountered quite a bit. A few previous workplaces required CentOS. In this case you either don't count on the OS (and you can set up Mojolicious/Catalyst/Dancer/Moose/whathaveyou) or count on the OS and be...
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  Of course you're satisfied, Otherwise you wouldn't keep using it. :) In the specific case of Mojolicious, I've explicitly specified that it won't suffer a lot of ailments other projects do because of the skilled developers - so that's obviously...
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  The point was: Mojolicious (since we're still on that, as a good example) is *quite* modern, and is likely used by people who are not technically constrained to sticking with old infrastructure, which prevents them from going to CPAN as...
• Commented on Why People Don't Like Mojolicious
  Technical. I guess I should have written “purely for technical reasons”. After using and enjoying Dancer and its community I decided to try and fix things and add features. How I ended up being a core developer is still a...
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  That's a good point. I should have probably made it clear that my criticism is towards those that use rather recent code (Mojolicious, for example, requires Perl 5.10) but refuse to use CPAN. If you use something that requires an...
• Commented on Mojolicious: an unexpected result
  Now that is a good response. And no, I'm not being cynical at all....
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  Thank you. Would be lovely to have a blog post on how you do it. I'm sure others will benefit from your knowledge and experience....

Comment Threads

• 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? :-)

• Peter Rabbitson 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!

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

  Hooray, I hope you have a good time there!

• Mark Allen commented on Thank You For Supporting Pinto!

  Thanks Jeff. That's incredibly generous.

• ken.wagnitz commented on Belated "hello world"

  Apart from its bad grammar, what do you object to in the "writeup"?
  I've been a dumb noob on a number of forums. It isn't pleasant to get abusive or misleading responses. I particularly hate the ones that give untried snippets of code that the authors come up with off the top of their head, which will never work.
  It is ironic that geek devotees of the latest code|language|OS trend/flavour sometimes drive away potential recruits with their condescending posts.
  You aren't being condescending here are you?