Alberto Simões

• Website: ambs.perl-hackers.net/
• About: I blog about Perl. D'uh!

Recent Actions

• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  Note that all is grant-worthy if it is related with a module used by lot of people. Grants do not need to be $3000, can be lower values too. That makes it possible to dissect a bigger project in smaller...
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  As a side note, I work as an University Teacher in Portugal and get less than $1000 a month... but then, I probably should leave Portugal :)...
• Posted About the Grants Committee to Alberto Simões

  As some of you probably noticed, from my post in TPF blog, there were no grant proposals in the last six months. I am not sure how to interpret this lack of interest in grants. But there are some ideas that come to…

• Commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?
  TeX will not ever have a new major version. :-) Nevertheless I agree with you. I just had to comment about TeX versioning…...
• Commented on My Prediction
  The only sensible solution is to rename Perl 6 (to Camelia, for instance), and use Perl 7. Unfortunately, accordingly to Larry, that will not happen (and the Perl community is not a democracy, it is a reign). If we decide...
• Commented on Perl 7
  As lot of people already said, the main problem was using 'Perl 6' for a different language. I think going 'Perl 7' for a 'Perl 5' improvement will not work as expected. My point of view? We have two languages,...
• Posted TPF with new Call For Grants to Alberto Simões

  As usual TPF just published another call for grant proposals, ranging from $500 to $2000. The official call for proposals is available here: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/01/2013q1-call-for-grant-proposal.html

• Commented on Versioning Loops
  Hey I didn't dig it out, and though it was a typo (20 vs 30). Yes, removing modules from a distribution is a problem. As there is some kind of registration that is done when installing a module, it might...
• Posted Versioning Loops to Alberto Simões

  I just found something interesting.. well, at least, fun:

  Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file Perl::MinimumVersion 1.29 1.30 CHORNY/Perl-MinimumVersion-1.30.tar.gz

  After installing Perl::MinimumVersion, I get:

  Package n…

• Posted Filters with Template Toolkit to Alberto Simões
  In the last days I've been preparing a web site where I want to show values in four different currencies, accordingly with the user choice, and keeping up with the current exchange quote. I do not want to talk about how to get those values, or what values or website I am building, but just share an…
• Posted PtPW 2012 recorded in Video to Alberto Simões

  This is not that interesting for most people that can not understand Portuguese. Nevertheless, the Portuguese Perl Workshop was recorded in Video, and we managed to upload the talks and a Moose tutorial to youtube. Check the talk list and links to the videos in out

• Posted YAPC::EU::2012, the good parts to Alberto Simões

  I think some people did not interpret my last post correctly, I think I hated YAPC::EU::2012 (or at least, that is what I understand from Gabor comment on his Perl Weekly). Well, no, the post points three things I did not like, meaning that everything else was fun.

  But I would like to poin…

• Commented on So, Kiev 2013
  Hey, Andrew. Yes, I think an auction is great. Make it online or in paper for small items. Make half a dozen crazy items live, if you wish. That would be what I would do if I was organizing it...
• Commented on YAPC::EU::2012, what I missed
  Just to make it clear, I do not think any of the three things I mention are organization fault. Nobody could guess the weather, and even if they could probably there wasn't a better venue; I know that Josette didn't...
• Posted YAPC::EU::2012, what I missed to Alberto Simões

  YAPC::EU is over. It was a nice conference, but there were a couple of things I've missed. The first one is obvious: air conditioning. We had a too hot weather. I understand that Germany is used to cold, not hot. Nevertheless, next YAPC::EU users, remind that 300 or more people in a room, half…

• Posted Building C and C++ libraries with Perl to Alberto Simões
  It seems that somebody screwed it, and forgot one 20 pages article I wrote for YAPC::EU::2012 proceedings. Therefore, the proceedings are shorter, and are shamelessly incomplete. Anyway, you can read my article in all its glory
• Commented on Several rants
  Mostly +1 to all. Just the Windows isn't that true for me. I need things working there. Oh, damn life....
• Commented on Stop writing Perl books!*
  I tried that. And wrote some chapters (check http://ambs.github.com/Books/). But I do not have much time recently and therefore the project is stalled for some time. I also requested help writing it, but didn't got much interest. I agree with...
• Posted TPF with new Call For Grants to Alberto Simões

  The Perl Foundation has a new call for grants open. Check details here

• Commented on CPAN is all broken, now
  I agree on complaining. Just think it should not die, at least, not now. Just after some months of carping :)...
• Commented on CPAN is all broken, now
  The modules are there already. I do not own them all. You are seeing the problem the other way around. If you want to change all modules on CPAN to make these tests author only, I can also fix them...
• Commented on CPAN is all broken, now
  Try installing the new Podlators... as I said, not sure whose fault is (yet)....
• Posted CPAN is all broken, now to Alberto Simões

  I am not sure whose fault is, but Test::Pod now verifies for characters outside ASCII, and complains a missing =encoding directive. I like this check to be done, but I do not think that breaking half of the CPAN is a good idea. It would be better to just carp for…

• Posted Stealing from Python to Alberto Simões

  We all know that Python, Perl and Ruby (ok, and PHP, and probably other languages) are always stealing ideas from one another. This is a nice thing to do.

  After programming a few with Python there is a couple of details I like. I know not all are possible to implement in Perl. Some of them…

• Commented on Using the Record Separator
  Thanks for the confirmation. I know I can get $/ back to the real value, but that is annoying. Giving I control the module, I localized the var there, with the correct value. But I'm mostly sure lot of people...
• Posted Using the Record Separator to Alberto Simões

  I use Perl for years, but there are some details that I still am unable to use correctly in Perl. I think they should be my fault. And probably, if I rtfm I would get an answer. Nevertheless, and although this is not perlmonks, I'll post my problem anyway.

  I use ="prettyp…

• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  It is always great when somebody trying to insult someone else gets insulted himself. Fortunately what makes the Perl community great is a group of hundred people and not one or two... erm.. [* put here that adjective *]...
• Posted Dancer article on SDJ to Alberto Simões

  Some time ago I was invited to write a Perl article to Software Developers Journal. It is (as far as I could gather) a magazine based on Poland. Their website is at http://en.sdjournal.org/. It is a paid magazine, so to read it you should buy the…

• Commented on Perl Code Sprint 2012
  No, brian, we didn't ask you for it. You are innocent this time. In the end we got the docbook source. Not as easy to edit as the Pod, but it is going. :)...
• Commented on Perl Code Sprint 2012
  Hello, brian. Yeah, we can understand it, but it is not correct. But that is usual with Google translate :) No, the Portuguese Learning Perl is not yet ready. O'Reilly took some time to send us the sources, and we...

Comment Threads

• Peter Rabbitson commented on About the Grants Committee

  @tinita You get the first set of improvememnts for free fwiw: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2013-February/011109.html

  Of course there is a lot more work that can be done, I'll look into applying for a grant for next quarter (or sooner if the rules change).

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Perl 7

  As an alternative idea - how about we pick a name rather than getting even further into the numbers game?

  See my blog post on the subject for my suggestion as to what to pick.

  -- mst, out

• castaway.myopenid.com commented on About the Grants Committee

  You missed as a point "People don't know that the grants exist" and "People don't think their ideas/plans are appropriate for a grant". TPF should probably advertise them more.

  As Nicholas pointed out, the grants system is a bit arcane, and takes a fair amount of work and waiting, just to apply.

  To everyone else: You'll never know if your idea/plan was good enough for a grant if you don't apply! Don't assume it isnt, ask!

• vti commented on About the Grants Committee

  Maybe there should be a simple pre-applying form where people can vote just for ideas, like 'Should I ask for a grant for this...?' and get responses like 'Yeah, that'd be great' or 'Nah.. this is just silly'. This is much easier to check for your ideas and not be too much depressed because of the 'no'.

• metadoo commented on About the Grants Committee

  Whenever someone is to submit a grant proposal, that proposal goes through one's "internal review" first. And in that internal review one asks yourself: "Why should I ask to be paid for what countless of others just CONTRIBUTE to Perl community? The Perl itself and tens of thousands of modules are literally millions of hours, hundreds of years of work just contributed. Why should I ask for pay?". This is the perfectly right question to ask. And this makes the one's internal review quite picky, and the result is what we see - no proposals. And, though surprisingly it may sound, this is the…