Phillip Smith

• Website: phillipadsmith.com
• About: Phillip Smith is a digital publishing consultant, online advocacy specialist, and strategic convener. And I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on Installing DBD::mysql on Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"
  Oddly, that was one of the first things I tried, as it was suggested in a blog post I found when Googling the error message. However, it didn't work for me? Not sure why. Will try that again next time....
• Posted Installing DBD::mysql on Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" to Phillip Smith

  I’ve run into this problem every time I’ve set-up a new computer recently, so — in the interest of remembering where to look for the solution next time — here’s a quick “note to future self” post on installing MySQL and…

• Commented on Mojocast #3: Authentication, Helpers, and Plugins
  Consider the reality here: the most watched site on the internet by hackers/developers had a Perl-related post in the top spot. It remained on the front page for 6 hours, which is pretty good for a screencast with no article...
• Commented on #Catalyst on @dot_cloud: Adding a #PostgreSQL data service. (#Perl in the cloud, Part IIII)
  Hey there Jérôme, @miyagawa did mention that. However, the issue was that I wanted to do some remote debugging and didn't want to commit those changes because they'd be quite useless in the context of a commit history. Thus, what...
• Posted #Catalyst on @dot_cloud: Adding a #PostgreSQL data service. (#Perl in the cloud, Part IIII) to Phillip Smith

  Following up on my previous post that demonstrated how to get a basic

• Commented on @dotCloud loves Catalyst apps: Up-and-running in 10-minutes (#Perl in the cloud, Part III)
  Glad you enjoyed. I was fun to put together....
• Posted @dotCloud loves Catalyst apps: Up-and-running in 10-minutes (#Perl in the cloud, Part III) to Phillip Smith

  Lots is happening in the Perl Web framework world these days. The three main frameworks are getting better at …

• Commented on Perlish concise query syntax for ElasticSearch
  Awesomesauce. :)...
• Posted From Perl slacker, to Perl hacker: Perl in the cloud, Part II to Phillip Smith

• Commented on Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
  Interesting that you didn't include Perl 6 updates in the changes you'd like to see I'm a bit "meh" about Perl 6, to be perfectly frank. The re-birth of Perl 5 is far more exciting to me: Moose, Plack,...
• Commented on Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
  I'm (slowly) reading Effective Perl Programming 2nd Ed. One of my recent favourites. It's a ground-breaking book, IMHO, if you're into Perl. it seems to favor over using $_ for fancy coding You mean for "lazy coding." Nothing fancy about...
• Posted Writing Perl Modules for CPAN to Phillip Smith
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• Commented on Ten million dollars to DotCloud, but still no Perl support
  It's still pretty hard to give out a straight ETA, but Perl will be soon on DotCloud, you can rely on it. Thanks for the update, Jérôme. Please make a point to get the word out once it's ready for...
• Commented on Ten million dollars to DotCloud, but still no Perl support
  Isn't Phenona (http://www.phenona.com/ ) supposed to be the Perl Heroku? First I've heard of Phenona. Looks exciting. I've signed-up to get a beta invite. Fingers crossed. :) That said, the more options the merrier! :) Phillip....
• Posted Ten million dollars to DotCloud, but still no Perl support to Phillip Smith

  Let's face it: The promise of "PaaS" (Platform as a Service) -- easily deploying your application to a whole stack living up there in the cloud -- is pretty cool shit. Back in January (ages ago in Internet time), I kicked the tires…

• Posted Git-backed wikis, Gollum, and simple installation experiences to Phillip Smith

  

  Last night I upgraded the ="http://gi…

• Commented on Do you want extra Effective Perl in Safari Books?
  We don't know how many people read our stuff in Safari Books. That's where I read it (and downloaded it for offline reading). Would be great to see some of the stuff from the Effective Perler Website make it back...
• Posted Aggregating mailing lists: To Plagger or not to Plagger? to Phillip Smith

  

  Over the last few years, I've come to rely on tools that summarize information for me: Being on a …

• Commented on Perl.com - initial relaunch
  Very, very, good news. Looking forward to see what comes of it (& let folks know if any help is needed & how they can help out with it)....
• Commented on Introducing Facebook::Graph
  Wow. Great stuff. Can't wait to give it a try. (/me heads off to Github/CPAN...)...
• Posted Bricolage CMS hacking made easy! to Phillip Smith

  After my last post about Installing Bricolage 2 on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard," I realized that there are a few more important steps that should be…

• Posted Not for the faint of heart: Installing Bricolage 2 on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" to Phillip Smith

  Okay, I admit it: Bricolage CMS -- the open-source enterprise-class content management system -- takes a few hours to install. The upside? A well-deserved sense of accomplishment.

  Seriously, as someone who works with Bricolage regularly and likes to c…

• Commented on What would you like TPF to do?
  Many thanks for this post, Gabor. One quick kvetch with a comment: @autarch: Re: "I'm also all for promoting Perl, but like I said elsewhere, I think the first step there is to come up with a marketing plan, not...

Comment Threads

• john napiorkowski 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 will still work, but you will get a deprecation notice and I recommend you glance at the upgrading document, since it is actually fewer lines of code in the end (upgrading your app.psgi involves removing code, and in the end there are few characters).

  The upside here will be increasing better support for PaaS providers like Dotcloud that are using PSGI as…

• Oliver Gorwits commented on @dotCloud loves Catalyst apps: Up-and-running in 10-minutes (#Perl in the cloud, Part III)

  This is a terrific guide, thanks so much. I was able to deploy a demo of one of my modules to DotCloud really easily and quickly. Great stuff!

• r3zen commented on #Catalyst on @dot_cloud: Adding a #PostgreSQL data service. (#Perl in the cloud, Part IIII)

  This is amazing step in the right direction!

• jcook4615 commented on Installing DBD::mysql on Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"

  Phillip,

  What version of mysql are you using with Mac OSX 10.7?

  Thanks

• thunderpick.ya.ru commented on Installing DBD::mysql on Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"

  I add 2 lines in my ~/.bash_profile
  export VERSIONER_PERL_PREFER_32_BIT=yes;

  next I look cflags in mysql_config -cflags
  then testuser and testpassword I set up in mysqladmin and ...
  reopen terminal and...

  sudo perl Makefile.PL --libs="-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient" --cflags="-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -g -Os -arch i386 -fno-common -D_P1003_1B_VISIBLE -DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE -DSIGNALS_DONT_BREAK_READ -DIGNORE_SIGHUP_SIGQUIT -DDONT_DECLARE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL" --mysql_config…