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brian d foy

  • Website: www.theperlreview.com
  • About: I'm the author of Mastering Perl, and the co-author of Learning Perl (6th Edition), Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl (4th Edition) and Effective Perl Programming (2nd Edition).

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  • Commented on Shell access to $NOT_MY_ENVIRONMENT for development?
    Adam Kennedy had tried to set up some deal through Microsoft for a Windows build farm, but last I heard the middle managers got weirded out. I just use virtual machines so I can have several versions of Windows locally....
  • Commented on /usr/local/bin rant
    cpan(1) installs to wherever your perl's config tells it to install, which is likely in the same place cpan(1) is. And, the -i switch there is just extra typing. :) For cron, I don't rely on PATH at all: PERL=.......
  • Commented on Introducing Text::ANSITable
    I love people who love terminals :)...
  • Commented on Why You Should Help Crowd-fund Pinto
    Now that I've run the first experiment, I'm interested in helping people run more of these. This one was pretty big, but I'm sure there are lots of smaller projects out there, maybe in the $250-$500 range, that could benefit...
  • Posted Contribute to Pinto through Paypal or Flattr to brian d foy

    My experiment to crowd fund Jeff Thalhammer's Pinto development is going well. It's 87% of the way there. We need $503 to reach the campaign minimum. We have a week left to get that remaining 13% to get the…

  • Commented on Pinto Jam Sessions On IRC This Thursday
    You'll be getting up early that day since you're on the West Coast. I'm in -0500, so that's 0900 and 1300 for me, which I can do. I'm not much for IRC for day to day stuff, but I like...
  • Posted Diagnosing module installation problems in Heroku to brian d foy

    I've been playing with Heroku (a platform as a service) and Mojolicious, which works very well if all of the modules install. Greg Hinkle shows you how to…

  • Commented on Travis CI ♥ Perl
    Very nice! I've set this up for a couple of my projects and I'll see how it goes. :)...
  • Commented on Ruby's share drops on github, Perl's stays
    I seem to recall a recent discussion about how files were identified or misidentified, skewing the results. I've lost the Google-Fu to find that again, but it was in the Github issues for Github itself. Diving in Perl (https://github.com/languages/Perl) makes...
  • Commented on Crowd funding Pinto
    It's not for Stratopan. It's for Pinto. Everyone will benefit from this and Jeff's work is for open source. The result will end up on CPAN. I've already said that in a previous comment. However, there isn't a difference between...
  • Commented on Site Front Page
    Is there a widget that disappeared? I thought the sidebar had a list of the latest posts....
  • Commented on Site Front Page
    A good blog engine does this for you. If we're looking for attractive, however, there are much better options. We're using MT because it's written in Perl, I think. However, because we love Perl doesn't mean we have to like...
  • Posted CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again to brian d foy

    Get rid of your old distributions on CPAN! A couple of years ago, I asked CPAN authors to visit their delete files PAUSE page to "increase their Schwartz". Sadly, the use.Perl page has disappeared; the Schwartz Factor is…

  • Commented on Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (2)
    A couple of years ago we had a CPAN Spring Cleaning and were able to reduce the size of the CPAN mirror by several gigabytes. This makes us slightly nicer to our mirrors' disk requirements. It was completely voluntary and...
  • Commented on ::NonOO suffix for non-OO version of a module
    The File::Spec and File::Spec::Functions namespaces comes to mind. I had this idea for NoOO, though :) But, so much negativity today and not a direct answer among them. Nobody needs to get anyone's permission before they play around with Perl,...
  • Commented on Crowd funding Pinto
    This crowd funding is not about Stratopan, despite the tweet in Perlbuzz confusing the two. This is about Pinto, which everyone will be able to use as part of Pinto. :)...
  • Commented on There Is Some Cash Up For Grabs
    I've been thinking about this lately. If enough customers and potential customers wanted it, they'd provide it. But, with little competition, they don't really have to do anything. Does it matter if there is a language-agnostic webby API and there...
  • Commented on Slideshare? Really?
    You might be better off with me uploading a PDF somewhere else, but I'm not better off uploading my content somewhere else. Putting a PDF at some random spot does nothing for me. Putting it somewhere that has lots of...
  • Posted Crowd funding Pinto to brian d foy

    Can the Perl community directly fund a major project? I think we can, and we're 15% of the way there to funding Specify module version ranges in Pinto. There are some developers who are so valuable that I…

  • Commented on Another strike against AUTOLOAD
    I don't see this as a strike against AUTOLOAD but a consequence of using a dynamic language. You could have the same "method doesn't exist yet" problem without AUTOLOAD. The problem I see is that Smalltalk's omniscience has invaded Moose,...
  • Commented on Is the module list useful?
    I suggest separating the "Module list" and "Module registration". The list curating by people is gone and the one compiled through information that a module registration collected is no longer maintained. That the permission is historically called "modulelist" shouldn't be...
  • Commented on Saved By Pinto
    I should also note that people can solve this without something like Pinto by having an upgrade strategy that isn't "try it in production and see what breaks". Pinto, DPAN, Carton, and so on are there when you deploy to...
  • Commented on Saved By Pinto
    I've often heard Schwern say that he's one of the few people that can ruin CPAN for anybody if he messes up ExtUtils::Makemaker or Test::More. Sometimes he says it as a concession to fragility, but sometimes it sounds vaguely threatening....
  • Commented on Is the module list useful?
    The "Module List" is no longer maintained, but that's a different thing than module registration which has so many other things going on. Many of the meta data things people are inventing new systems for are already there as part...
  • Commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?
    There are also many Indians applying to the Advanced Perl Group on LinkedIn, but I have no way to evaluate them and they apparently don't connect with anyone already in the group. I'd like to find ways to extend our...
  • Commented on Bringing Old Modules Up To Modern Specification
    Well, "job" is the key part there. That's how I'd like to make money. So far no one is paying for that sort of thing....
  • Commented on Fat Versus Thin Core
    local::lib and cpanm are mentioned in Learning Perl, though....
  • Commented on Bringing Old Modules Up To Modern Specification
    My dream job would be to fix these sorts of things in CPAN. I should get back to that with the MyCPAN stuff. CPAN.pm has an interesting and very powerful way to deal with this and Andreas seems to know...
  • Commented on What does this PHP print?
    I'm surprised I had so much trouble making that code do the expected thing, so I had to explain it all. To be fair, the PHP manual acknowledges this problem and tells people not to nest them. It's not like...
  • Commented on Mobrater and White Camel Nominations
    Yes, there are a lot of rough edges to MobRater. There isn't a way for anyone to merge or edit or delete entries. There are no admin controls at all for the content....
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