Robert Blackwell

• Website: robertblackwell.com
• About: I am a Pittsburgh Perl Parent.

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• Commented on Categorizing CPAN modules
  I think using Pinboard or similar service would be great. I am sure we could populate the tags in very creative ways. It is even uses Perl....
• Commented on A Simple Plack/DBI Example
  I extended your comment into a small test. I used JSON instead of DateTime b/c it wanted a year....
• Posted Loving some puppet to Robert Blackwell

  I do love being able to just do

  cpanm Moose

  But I am gaining much love for

  puppet apply -e 'package { "perl-Moose": ensure => "installed" }'

• Posted I need your help with Perl and the Internet of Things at YAPC::NA to Robert Blackwell

  
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• Commented on This is a QR Code. We’re going to use QR Codes a lot at...
  Interesting that the yapc mailing list version of this post created lots of response and the blog post not so much. Glad JT discovered the mailing list....
• Posted Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 8th and 9th. to Robert Blackwell

  Hope to see you at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop.

• Commented on 4 Arg open ...
  I have a several modules where we save a file and it also commits/adds the file in git. This is great when I am using the tools that is already using those modules. I am interested in getting that ability...
• Posted 4 Arg open ... to Robert Blackwell

  Anyone else having dreams of a four arg open?

  open FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE,GIT COMMIT MESSAGE

• Posted Pittsburgh Perl Workshop - Hardware Hackathon to Robert Blackwell

  Over the years I have been trying to get the perl community excited about hardware hacking, physical computing and the like.

  I am encouraged by the feedback I have received and am excited to say that we are having a Hardware Ha…

• Posted Pittsburgh Perl Workshop October 9-10 2010. to Robert Blackwell

  
  

  We have great talks, great classes, Larry Wall keynoting and a great hallway track.

  This year PPW will be in the new Gates Center at CMU and it would be great to break it in with the biggest PPW ye…

• Posted Pittsburgh Perl Workshop CFP ends Monday Sept 6 to Robert Blackwell

  The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2010 will be Saturday October 9 and Sunday 10 at the Gates Center at CMU.

  Don't miss your chance to speak at this years Workshop. The Call For Papers ends Monday Sept 6.

  Submit your talk.

• Posted Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2010 to Robert Blackwell

  
  

  We are happy to have Larry Wall keynote PPW 2010 in the new Gates and Hillman Cen…

Comment Threads

• http://petdance.com/openid/ commented on Categorizing CPAN modules

  For starters, those who use (or used) CPAN's categories.

  I'm guessing that very few people have even looked at the categories in at least seven or eight years. Nobody knows they're there. I think the days of browsing lists of modules by category is long gone, and we're now into a world where everything is keyword searching and links of tags.

  Who's the user that you're trying to serve? I think there are two key users to be served: The experienced user who wants to quickly find a module that matches a given search criteria, and the novice user who doesn't r…

• Olivier Mengué (dolmen) commented on Categorizing CPAN modules

  Adding more links to other modules in SEE ALSO sections is also a way to link modules.
  This is currently about the only solution to discover other related modules while browsing on MetaCPAN.

  If you see such links missing for a distribution it is always a good thing to report this as a bug at rt.cpan.org. All authors to which I've reported such bugs have responded favorably.

  Maybe we need some author tools that would automatically extract links from SEE ALSO and add them to a new section in META.json to make this information easier to process...

• Mark Stosberg commented on Categorizing CPAN modules

  I like the idea of adding tags, but would like the public to be able to tag modules, not just module authors.

  For example, I have some friends on Flickr who take great photos, but don't tag them. I follow up and tag on their behalf.

  Another "Discovery" feature I would like for metacpan.org is "what's new by keyboard". For example, I'd like to know:

  "What new modules have been published in the MooseX namespace recently?"

  and

  "What new modules have been published that use Moose recently?"

• Steven Haryanto commented on Categorizing CPAN modules

  If you see such links missing for a distribution it is always a good thing to report this as a bug at rt.cpan.org. All authors to which I've reported such bugs have responded favorably.

  Good idea. I'll try to remember to do that in the future...
  

• stas commented on Categorizing CPAN modules

  Thanks for raising an issue, Steven! Your post made me unbox and polish a toy project of mine which envolves tapping into the collective wisdom of Perl community:
  

  
  CPAN::U is a collaborative filter based recommendation system for Perl developers. It gathers data from "++" button counts across the MetaCPAN and builds a predictive model of modules often used together by CPAN authors.
  

  
  Not quite ready yet, consider as a pre-release: http://sysd.org/cpan-u/