Phred

• Website: www.redhotpenguin.com
• About: I blog about Perl and mod_perl.

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• Commented on SOAP::Lite 0.716 released
  Thanks for the spot Ether. I've been busy yak shaving. 0.717 should be out in the next week with that. Although I said that last week......
• Posted SOAP::Lite 0.716 released to Phred

  I'm happy to announce the release of SOAP::Lite 0.716. Thanks to all the many contributors! Coming to a CPAN mirror near you!

  0.716 May 10, 2013
  ! #17275 Client unable to detect fatal SOAP failure (e.g. unable to connect to host)
  ! #81471 Force array context for correct…

• Posted mod_perl 2.0.8 has been released to Phred

  I'm pleased to announce that mod_perl 2.0.8 is coming to a CPAN mirror near you, as well as the following Apache project website links (note that the Apache.org links may take a few hours to propagate to the mirrors).

  Thanks to all the contributors on this version!
  
  ="h…

• Commented on Installing all CPAN modules
  @briandfoy I have to work on a dev server sometimes where we have to file tickets to get CPAN modules installed. I figured I'd just file one ticket to get all of them installed :)...
• Posted Installing all CPAN modules to Phred

  Is there a bundle out there of all CPAN modules? I'm looking to install every single module on CPAN onto a machine.

• Commented on Job postings on blogs.perl.org
  We do not have hard and fast rules for cases that fall outside these clear buckets. Use your judgement; above all, don’t be annoying. There are likely annoying blog posts on this site which are non job related (probably at...
• Commented on When Perl is not applicable
  I concur, only do *massive* data aggregation in SQL and Perl ;) http://www.perl.com/pub/2005/05/05/aggregation.html...
• Posted mod_perl 2.0.7 released with Perl 5.16 compatibility to Phred

  I'm pleased to announce the release of mod_perl 2.0.7, available at
  shortly, as well as http://perl.apache.org.

  This release of mod_perl contains an update for perl 5.16, see the
  change log below. Thanks to t…

• Commented on Hidden unhelpful reviews on cpanratings.org
  Thanks for all the feedback, I was able to login and see the 'unhelpful' reviews, one of which was helpful to my needs....
• Posted Hidden unhelpful reviews on cpanratings.org to Phred

  I noticed that on the module review pages linked from search.cpan.org and metacpan.org that 'unhelpful' reviews are inaccessible. The text is contained in a div as such:

  
  div data-dist="module_name" id="show_unhelpful">

  3 hidden unhelpful reviews

  /div>

  …

• Posted mod_perl 2.0.6 released to Phred

  Last week mod_perl 2.0.6 was released. You can download it here - http://perl.apache.org/download/index.html

  Thanks to the many contributors to this release. Below is a summary of changes.

  2.0.6 April 24, 2012

  Preser…

• Commented on whack-a-mole
  This looks interesting. Just ran it on some of my code and it seems to find the complicated subs....
• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  I've been 'yelled at' over IRC and RT by some members of well known projects, for issues ranging from asking questions about implementing caching for a particular ORM, to offering to resolve issues with a module that I maintain, but...
• Commented on Technical Debt Calculator
  That sounds like technical debt is quite a deal in some situations....
• Posted String::Strip 1.02 enroute to a CPAN mirror near you to Phred

  Steffen from modules@perl.org responded to my email yesterday and made me a co-maintainer of String::Strip. I've applied the 64 bit bug fix to it, and pushed 1.02 to CPAN. Thanks for everyone who responded to my thread yesterday about requesting co-maintainer. This is how open source is…

• Commented on Request sent for String::Strip comaintainership
  I pushed 1.02 to my github repository, and added a link to the ticket. This fixes the issues on 64 bit platforms. https://github.com/redhotpenguin/String-Strip I'll push to CPAN if I am granted COMAINT....
• Commented on Request sent for String::Strip comaintainership
  Time for Any::String::Trim? Probably only take me 30 minutes to put up there, but the problem is getting that 30 minutes....
• Commented on Request sent for String::Strip comaintainership
  Thanks for the suggestions. I just emailed the author, and the address on his CPAN page bounced back. He hasn't been active on CPAN for about 12 years, and the other tickets have gone unresponded. So I am hopeful that...
• Posted Request sent for String::Strip comaintainership to Phred

  String::Strip has a problem on 64 bit environments, and a release has not been made in over 10 years. I have sent an email to modules@perl.org asking for COMAINT as the author has apparently not been responding to RT tickets.

  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70028

  ht…

• Commented on Dear LazyPerl, looking for a logger
  @Steven and @Al, thanks for the great links, just what I was looking for. @offby1 that looks interesting but I need something on CPAN. @SawyerX, thanks for the links also, but those are a little more full featured than what...
• Posted Dear LazyPerl, looking for a logger to Phred

  I'm looking for a logger module like Log::Log4Perl but one I can hand a filename to and be done with it. No /etc configuration files or other crap to deal with, and still have debug/warn/etc log levels.

  Any ideas? Something like:

  use Log::EasyLog;

  my $logger = Log::EasyLo…

• Commented on MacBook battery status and screen
  I am usually alerted by the pop up box (on full screen also with iTerm2) which says 'your battery is very low'....
• Commented on Time spent waiting for tests you know will pass is time wasted
  I use RPMs for sets of production machines. Installing via cpanminus is only for development environments....
• Posted Time spent waiting for tests you know will pass is time wasted to Phred

  I've started using 'cpanm -n Module' to install Perl modules. The '-n' tells cpanminus to skip testing and just install the module.

  "What, are you insane?"

  Nope, I have just found that for most Perl modules, it is more time efficient to skip testing on th…

• Posted DBIx::Class tsk tsk to Phred

  Next time I upgrade DBIx::Class it will probably tell me I need to get a haircut.

  DBIx::Class::Schema::connection(): You provided explicit AutoCommit => 0 in your connection_info. This is almost universally a bad idea (see the footnotes of DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI for more info). If…

• Commented on Using strict is hard, let's just use Moose;
  Education works sometimes, but I still know of at least one programmer (with several years experience) who starts code without strict. I've been thinking about this more - like @miyagawa said, enabling strict by default could cause problems with legacy...
• Commented on DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 and mod_perl
  You might want to bring this up on the on the mod_perl list if you haven't already....
• Commented on Using strict is hard, let's just use Moose;
  I'm aware of the 'use v5.12' feature for turning on strictures by default, but I have some fear of committing to a specific version when newer versions are now being regularly released. It would be bad to break legacy code...
• Commented on Using strict is hard, let's just use Moose;
  Ah there it is. Thanks for the spot. lib/Moose/Exporter.pm:410: strict->import; lib/Moose/Exporter.pm:644: strict->import;...
• Posted Using strict is hard, let's just use Moose; to Phred

  I've been running into more and more code which uses Moose, and doesn't use strict. The logic being that since Moose uses strict, your code doesn't need to.

  Is there something about Moose's use of strict that differs from other modules that use strict? Say for instance that if I use Carp…

Comment Threads

• Alexandr commented on When Perl is not applicable

  If author expected perl to be good enough for certain task and used it and failed, how is it not perl's fault? Perl and perl community gave him his expectations.
  

• Sawyer X commented on When Perl is not applicable

  That's just silly. If a person wants to use scissors for something and fails, assuming all scissors are of about the same quality (as all dynamic languages are about the same speed), there are two options: 1. he didn't use them correctly, 2. they weren't up for the task and he should use a different tool.

  The first case hasn't yet been established as wrong, but I'll ignore that for now. Others have addressed it.

  The second case is what I care about. If it's not the proper tool, then it obviously has nothing to do with scissors of a specific brand. If the person failed using s…

• Aristotle commented on Job postings on blogs.perl.org

  We just don’t want the place to get littered with spam, and we want to keep it communal. That’s all.

  There are likely annoying blog posts on this site which are non job related

  “Annoying” was code for other words. :-) Basically, don’t do things that will cause other people to come to us with legitimate complaints. We will act if we have to, so we’d rather not have to. Everyone is better off that way.

  Thankfully so far we have had only a handful of very minor incidents to address, so we’ve been able to run a… loose ship…

• Andrew Shitov commented on When Perl is not applicable

  For the record, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12793562/text-processing-python-vs-perl-performance

• Robert commented on Installing all CPAN modules

  CPAN::Mini