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• Commented on A few of my favourite things.... Set::Object
  I am also a fan of Set::Object. Sure, many of these operations can be implemented easily using map, but it seems silly to write them over, and over, and over... I think a "set" should be a first-class data type,...
• Commented on Git-backed wikis, Gollum, and simple installation experiences
  Take a look at Wheat, at least for inspiration. Now, that is a cool git-based blog (see How To Node for a live example)....
• Commented on Philosophical notes on Dancer, the Perl 5 web framework
  All I have to say is I love Dancer, and I have found the devs to be quite responsive....
• Posted SQL scripts? Just do it. to Raster Burn

  The problem is that I have various .sql files containing database creation statements like:

  DROP TABLE IF EXISTS foo;
  CREATE TABLE foo ...
  ...
  ...;
  

  It would be wonderful to execute these sql files using DBI’s do…

• Commented on To Depend Or Not To Depend
  Danger! FindBin considered harmful. I prefer to structure my perl scripts as a library with a thin "bin" wrapper, and then build/install using Dist::Zilla (or Module::Build, or ExtUtils::MakeMaker). Doing it this way make it so that I never have to...
• Commented on Effective Perl Programming
  Since I primarily use MySQL, I prefer to test my application using a MySQL database. Test::mysqld has been a lifesaver for me. It can build a temporary database on the test machine and destroy it after the tests are over....
• Commented on Perl::Critic --praise
  This reminds me of unit testing achievements. Maybe Perl::Critic could be used to rank developers on a leaderboard and encourage some friendly competition?...

Comment Threads

• Robin Smidsrød commented on Effective Perl Programming

  Thanks a lot for mentioning Test::mysqld! It made me do a simple search on CPAN which yielded Test::postgresql, which seems to be exactly what I need for consistent database unit testing that can be combined with UI testing on known state of database.

• Robert commented on Effective Perl Programming

  I was thinking the answer might be that you needed something custom that couldn't be tested easily with SQLite.

• Flavio Poletti commented on To Depend Or Not To Depend

  D'oh you are all right! The funny thing is that I *knew* about UNIX filepaths... just forgot it! Thank you all very much indeed, especially jnareb.openid.pl for putting me on the right track!

• Adam Kennedy commented on Git-backed wikis, Gollum, and simple installation experiences

  A gui front end to pip might come close...

  pip mytarball.tar.gz

• Reini Urban commented on A few of my favourite things.... Set::Object

  Thanks. This post made my day.