Jakob

• Website: jakoblog.de
• About: Research & Development at a German library union network.

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• Commented on Pod to HTML
  I always wonder why Perl coder still stick to POD. It is limited and ugly at the latest when you have used Markdown syntax. Ok, POD is better than Javadoc but a pain to use for serious documenting....
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux
  Ok, I just proved myself about the difficulty for non-native speakers. Is pumpkin somehow related to pumping, by the way?...
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux
  Oh and I forgot to mention the most important aspect of connecting the name "Pumkin Perl" with Perl 5.14 or above: "use strict" is enabled by default....
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux
  Just a question: does the rename mean to be retrospectively, including Perl 5.0 (1994), Perl 5.6 (2000) and other ancient versions, Perl is still associated with? I'd prefer to take the chance of branding to get rid of this connection...
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux
  I like the idea a lot, but the name makes only sense to native speakers with a specific cultural and linguistic background. I wish you had chosen a name that was less awkward to spell and write. "pumkin perl" sounds...
• Commented on Towards a Science of Psychohistory
  The interesting problems in science are located beyond hard science, and if you don't need any hard-to-read prose you have likely over-simplified the domain....
• Commented on Your Personal CPAN In The Sky
  It's a pitty that Cory Watson has not given his YAPC::NA talk about deploying Perl web applications. As he wrote in the abstract there is "local::lib, cpanm, Dist::Zilla, carton, pinto and [...] I hate all of them". I bet one...
• Commented on vworker for Perl?
  As far as I understand, the sites you mention are about paid work. I doubt that this works well in Open Source programming - but maybe wrong. In addition I think the perl community is not large enough and there...
• Commented on The joy of PSGI middleware
  I'd say that Plack::Middleware::Apache2::ModSSL modifies the request or passes it unchanged (⇄,⇸) depending on what vars you configure it with. Many middlewares add or modify "secondary" parts of the request, for instance Plack::Middleware::SimpleLogger modifies psgix.logger. I'd say that the "core"...
• Posted The joy of PSGI middleware to Jakob

  I must admit that I rarely feel comfortable with (web application) frameworks - each system facilitates a certain type of task but it complicates the missing parts. Good frameworks support extension via plugins, but each framework has its own plugin architecture to learn. That's why I like

• Commented on Hi all i had tried to execute the following perl script to plot tha data but i am getting ocate object method add_chart via package Spreadsheet::WriteExcel error can u help this ...!!!
  Could someone please delete this and the previous blog entry (the latter is spam)?!...

Comment Threads

• Nick Patch commented on Pod to HTML

  Jakob, Joel: Additionally, I’ve read in the colophon of multiple O’Reilly books that they were written in Pod—or an extended version of Pod—and given to the publisher in that format. I’d be surprised to see this done in Markdown without drastic extensions to the point where it is no longer Markdown. (A quick search shows that such an extension exists, it’s called MultiMarkdown and is aimed at book and article publication.) Also, although there are some books like The Little MongoDB Book written in Markdown, I think…

• Aristotle commented on Pod to HTML

  POD is fine, except for its (bulleted and itemised) list syntax. (Definition lists are fine too.) It’s a little uglier than Markdown in its inline sequences, but has more of them and is more flexible overall (e.g. markup is allowed inside C<> sequences). I like both… except the list thing, which bites.

  (I wonder if there is any chance we can hope for POD to gain better list syntax… maybe via an approach like Dist::Zilla it could be introduced in such a way that old infrastructure continues to work. (That is what makes it hard to add significant features to POD.)…

• Steven Haryanto commented on Pod to HTML

  Aristotle, as usual, hits the nail on its head. The list syntax is horrible. Everything else about POD is pretty much acceptable.

  I have one more thing to (add|ask). Is there a way to collapse (a la orgmode) POD sections in Emacs? That's the other (out of two) pet peeves of mine regarding POD.

• John Gabriele commented on Pod to HTML

  I’d be surprised to see this done in Markdown without drastic extensions to the point where it is no longer Markdown.

  Have a look at Pandoc. It's got tasteful enhancements to original Markdown. Great for writing documentation.

• Toby Inkster commented on Pod to HTML

  I dunno.

  For simple bullet/numbered lists, Markdown is fine. But if each list item has multiple paragraphs interspersed with code samples, I'd say Pod is a more attractive prospect.