Ben Bullock

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• Commented on Site Front Page
  Yes, why is this not enabled for the main page? It would have saved a lot of discussions....
• Commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1
  That link works for me but anyway nowadays it seems that https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_uri links you to http://search.cpan.org/dist/cpan-upload-http/...
• Commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1
  Something else that rubygems has, is a script included in rubygems for building and uploading, that could make life easier for new uploaders cpan-upload! I think it's mentioned on the PAUSE page somewhere, but it's easy to miss....
• Posted Text::Fuzzy now with transpositions to The Incredible Journey

  The Text::Fuzzy module for approximate string matches, especially over lists, now also handles the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance, thanks to a patch from Nick Logan (UGEXE). This is an edit distance where the difference between "tarp" and…

• Posted CPAN::Nearest is now Text::Fuzzy to The Incredible Journey

  The module CPAN::Nearest for finding the closest module to a misspelt name is now integrated into a more general module, Text::Fuzzy.
  

• Commented on A couple of ideas for improving commenting/reviewing CPAN modules
  cpanratings is on github here: https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb/tree/master/lib/CPANRatings...
• Commented on What's wrong with CPAN?
  I think it would be a big improvement to CPAN if there was some objective way to know whether one's modules were being downloaded or used. For example, it would be useful to know the pageviews of the various documentation...
• Commented on PrePAN is Now on AWS
  Thanks, you are doing a great job....
• Commented on Don't release experiments to CPAN
  I can't find a maturity flag: https://metacpan.org/module/CPAN::Meta::Spec There is "release_status": https://metacpan.org/module/CPAN::Meta::Spec#release_status...
• Commented on Don't release experiments to CPAN
  Not many people are responding on PrePan at the moment, perhaps it would be nice if some people submitting their modules got a comment or two. One reason to upload "experiments" to CPAN is to get them tested by CPAN...
• Commented on Perl module for identifying Chinese IP addresses
  https://github.com/benkasminbullock/chinese-ip/blob/master/get-ip-addresses.pl...
• Posted Perl module for identifying Chinese IP addresses to The Incredible Journey

  This new Perl module IP::China provides a lookup for internet addresses which rapidly tells whether they are from China. It is based on a binary search of a database of about 2600 ranges, from the…

• Commented on Perl 10
  Perl 6 should stop squatting on the major version "6" until it gets its act together, and rebrand as something funky and mystical sounding like "Black Perl". How about "Larry's Wallbanger"?...
• Posted Upgraded module Lingua::JA::FindDates to The Incredible Journey

  I have upgraded a module, Lingua::JA::FindDates, for scanning text to find dates in Japanese format.
  

• Commented on Notice - WWW::Imgur end of life
  I am a bit surprised. I didn't actually know anyone was using this module....
• Commented on Notice - WWW::Imgur end of life
  There's no problem particularly, it is just not a very attractive option for me any more. Do the maths: Cost of linode with 24GB storage, 200 GB transfer storage: $20 / month Cost of 12,000 uploads and 300,000 views at...
• Commented on Notice - WWW::Imgur end of life
  The API is explained on the website of imgur at api.imgur.com....
• Posted New module to read a MATLAB .mat file into Perl to The Incredible Journey

  Data::MATFile is a Perl module to read the MATLAB MAT-File format.

• Commented on Notice - WWW::Imgur end of life
  Unfortunately, the module has to be completely rewritten for the new API. If I did this again, I would call the module WWW::Imgur::API2. I think it would make sense to make a new module WWW::Imgur::API3 rather than take over this...
• Posted Notice - WWW::Imgur end of life to The Incredible Journey

  The CPAN module WWW::Imgur for uploading images to the imgur.com website via Perl is now ceasing development. Due to a change in Imgur's terms and conditions, the current maintainer will no longer be using the…

• Commented on Perl case studies
  What specific questions should everyone be asked? What about asking them what version of Perl they use (are they still using 5.8?). If you are going to interview IMDB then ask them why they still aren't using Unicode on...
• Commented on Finding Duplicate Code in Perl
  simply compared each text block to all other ones and output them sorted by Levenshtein distance. It still needs some finetuning and doesn't run all that fast I don't know if this is any use, but it's a Perl...
• Commented on The sad state of syntax highlighting libraries on CPAN
  And it's not exactly what I need because I want ANSI escapes output and not HTML. Oh come on, that is about one line of Perl: my %ht = ( 'htmltag' => "\x0g", ); my $regex = (join '|',...
• Commented on The sad state of syntax highlighting libraries on CPAN
  Hi Steven, Talking about Emacs, here is a "weirdo" distribution of mine on github: https://github.com/benkasminbullock/Emacs-HTMLize This is what I use to make the syntax highlighting on my website, like the following: http://www.lemoda.net/perl/hash-ref-or-copy/index.html http://www.lemoda.net/images/sizes/index.html It is really slow and not conceptually...
• Commented on Another Perl's doomsday statistics?
  https://github.com/languages/Shell I rest my case....
• Commented on Another Perl's doomsday statistics?
  I think the github languages bar is based on number of forks. Ruby is more popular than Python plus Perl. It also makes shell scripting more popular than Perl, PHP and C. Do you know of any major open source...
• Commented on Another Perl's doomsday statistics?
  Sorry, the above should say "I found only one CPAN module". I searched for a wide variety of CPAN modules on the site but only found one of them there....
• Commented on Another Perl's doomsday statistics?
  One fairly obvious thing to note is that the site "ohloh.net" doesn't seem to follow many Perl projects. I found only one module. Also, it seems to regard github forks of the same thing as different projects. I think these...
• Commented on Ooh, pretty!
  Also the review at the bottom can be seen even when logged out: http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Water...
• Commented on Ooh, pretty!
  It seems some of the bugs have been fixed too, for example "show hidden review" now seems to work correctly either when logged in or when logged out, and also for the case when there is only one review. http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/JSON-Parse...

Comment Threads

• hashbangperl commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1

  Link no worky, and no I didn't see any mention of it on the pages linked from cpan - maybe they should do so.

• Duncan commented on What's wrong with CPAN?

  There are quite a lot of modules on CPAN which are over ten years old and which haven't seen an update in that time. That doesn't mean that they need an update, but it does show that the timelines are quite long.

  I think it would be worth adding a heartbeat function. Every user who maintains at least one module should get an email once per year asking them to confirm their details. (That's one per author per year, not one per author per module per year.)

  If they fail to reply for five years then they should be removed from the list of maintainers of their modules. Any modules…

• salowrey commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  @chimerix I am a post grad student working in communications. Can you email me? I have a question for you. My email is annlowreycommunication@gmail.com I am a post grad student working in communications.

• salowrey commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  @chimerix I repeated myself… its late sorry!.

• Joel Berger commented on On CPAN Namespaces: Urban Namespace Planning

  salowrey, the way this site is set up, there is almost no chance that chimerix will see your comment on this old post. Sorry.