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As an DevOps, I use Puppet and Rex, and like automatic testing for my infrastructure. So when I saw serverspec, I thought: maybe I can do such things in Perl?

I know there are already so many testing frameworks at CPAN. But I like the syntax used by serverspec( yes, evoloved from Rspec!) so DIY begin~

Here is my work：Rex::Test::Spec.

We can use it as follow:

We are going to start a project to provide easy to use + install interfaces for Amazon and Ebay for Interchange 6, similar to the one available for Magento and other Ecommerce software. It should be also possible to use this in conjunction with Interchange 5.

With your help this becomes a successful project, e.g. through

• Feedback / Experiences with Amazon / Ebay and Perl modules
• Feature suggestions
• Developing time
• Documentation
• Testing
• Funds

Regards
Racke

Does anobody know what's wrong with metabase.cpantesters.org? Any attempt to submit test results ends in failure. Accessing the url returns a please come back later message.

As announced in the official blog (link), three grants have been cancelled. All of them have been stalled for some time.

It is neither a pleasant nor easy decision for us to cancel grants regardless of a reason. I understand the grant managers and the grantees did their best to make progress but delivering a grant is not always easy.

One of the major reasons to terminate grants is our budget. In the next post, I will discuss our budget and explain why it is necessary to cancel stalled grants.

Well just another quick installment for my new chapter in XS Fun This time I am just going to review what we have gone over so far before we dive into the real fun stuff.

Now we are more than half way there at least in code changes and we have covered allot of varies subjects from general 'c' programming the very specific OCI programming and a little XS sprinkled about.

So I have shown you how to get your callback into and out of DBD::Oracle with the dbd_db_STORE_attrib and dbd_db_FETCH_attrib functions. Here we saw the use of a few XS macros to make our life a little eiaser , such as 'strEQ' a little memory management with SvREFCNT_dec and a few other.

We also saw how I used a 'c' struct (structure) to hold the pointers to my paremates and how I declared this in a '.h' or header so I could use them in other 'c' programs rather than just including them in the dbdimp.c file.

The Joy In What We Do by Sawyer X

This is perhaps the best speech I’ve ever heard about software development. Thank you Sawyer X.

[From my blog.]

Yes, it's another post about Veure (whose actual name we might finally have chosen, but that's another story), the MMORPG that I've been writing.

There are 117 stars in a 20 light year radius around Sol. There are 544 space stations and currently there are 3,080 rooms in those stations (and that number is growing). That means there's a lot of area, but how do I fill that area? There's a lot of work still left to be done, but I took a quick stab at implementing a procedural mission generator as described in this paper. Surprisingly, the core of the code only took about an hour to write.

The Grants Committee approved and funded the grant proposal "Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl" in the previous round.

This is our first time to fund a grant which exceeds $3,000 since we lifted the grant limit of $3,000 earlier this year.

I am pleased that we are now able to fund larger scale grants and help the Perl development. While we don't have unlimited budget, it is the right thing that appropriate amount of money is funded for good projects which will help the growth of Perl.

If you did not submit a grant proposal in the past just because $3,000 limit was too low, act now. The deadline of the next evaluation round is July 15th.

For choosing the grant amount, see "Improving the grant program (1) Grant Limit" too.

Just a quick one tonight's installment for my new chapter in XS Fun just looking at the next function from my patch.

Now just to continue on to the next logical step we will need a disable function as well so my patch is

Charlie Stross on the future of technology and Perl.

[From my blog.]

If you've ever used git bisect, you know what an incredibly useful tool this is. It allows you to do a binary search through commits to find out which commit caused a particular error. Many people seem unaware of git bisect run ... which automates this even further, but it has a limitation: it won't let you find a particular error, it detects success or failure, that's all. So I decided to do something about that.

(With permission), I got this email from a former Phoenix.PM-er (my home PM):

I looked at Ruby on Rails, what a mess. I'm running the WordPress meetup group here in Jacksonville Florida...

I've been moving code into Mojolicious lately. Still trying to get used to the "new" ways of doing things.

You have one more "backer" - all the best on this. I can help with documentation at least, if you like.

I was right. I'm not the only Perler who uses WordPress or is responsible for site. In my case, I help with http://biketempe.org as part of my duties on the board of Tempe Bicycle Action Group.

Right now, there are 47 supporters and $1,840 pledged: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083389021/create-perl-competition-to-the-php-content-managem

Tonight's installment for my new chapter in XS Fun I am heading back to the 'c' land again looking at the function that actuality sets up the callback.

So now that we have a place to store of callback we can have another quick look at the 'dbd_db_STORE_attrib' function and this little addtion

 
    if (SvTRUE(valuesv)) {
        enable_ha(dbh, imp_dbh);
    } 
   else {
       disable_ha(imp_dbh);
   }

Just a heads up that if you're not using perlmodules.net you should check it out.

I use News+ on my android phone to keep up with RSS feeds, so I find it super useful to be able to at a glance find out when modules that I use frequently have been updated, and what's changed.
I got my list of modules I'm following.

**Edited, fixed links to point to unprotected rss feed instead of logged in view, fixed relative to absolute url to perlmodules site.**

0. Overview

1. Inheritance is Bad: Code Reuse Part I
2. Inheritance is Bad: Code Reuse Part II
3. Inheritance is Bad: Code Reuse Part III

1. Introduction

There exists a legend named the Gordian Knot. It was a knot that nobody was able to untie. An oracle predicted that the one who will be able to untie the knot would become the king of Asia. A lot of people tried to untie it, but nobody was successful. It seemed like an impossible task to do. But 333 BC they came a man, when he tried to untie it he drew his sword, sliced the knot and untied it that way. That man was Alexander the Great, and became later the King of Asia.

Buddy Burden:

Yes, we had multiple keynotes [at YAPC::NA 2014]. Two or three a day, even. I thought that was a bit weird. My friend David Hand kept joking that we had gone beyond keynotes and were now into keychords.

Another in my seemingly endless posts for a new chapter in XS Fun. Today I am am going to look at just what and where my the functions from my last two posts store their data.

Now to do a little backtracking I hinted earlier on about a mythical 'c' struct called 'imp_dbh_t' and I had mentioned this is where we where storing the values that we where passing into the 'Store' function and getting from the 'Fetch' function.

No not to go all to 'c' on you what you really need to know it that a 'c struct' is just the way 'c' stores a number of variables in memory with one pointer. Working with structures should be second nature to a Perl programmer as you would access the data in a struct with it name or key like this

 
imp_dbh->ha_function

1. Option 1
Found a way to synchronize date and time with a server over ssh which can quickly solve the problem:

# date --set="$(ssh user@server date)"

Or you can do it the other way around:

# ssh user@host "date --set \"$(date)\""
2. Option 2
‘ntpdate 10.200.117.37’ or ‘/usr/sbin/sntp -P no -r 10.200.117.37’ Of course you need to set up a ntp or sntp server first.

A couple months back Schwern handed me the keys to Test::Builder and friends. Initially I planned to try and knock out little bugs and simply maintain stability... That plan failed and I ended up spending a lot of time giving it a major overhaul for a feature Schwern and I agreed would be very nice. Result Streaming. This was further prompted by a minor change to a specific diagnostic message that resulted in breaking fragile tests written with Test::Builder ::Tester, which frankly, has seen better days. THERE IS A BETTER WAY!

I have just released an ALPHA version of the Test-Simple dist. This dist includes the following changes and features:

There is an old saying that "distance makes the heart grow fonder", and watching Matt Trout talking at YAPC::NA this year filled me with the mixed emotions embodied within that saying. I am simultaneously sad that I was not there to correct Matt's swiss cheese memory of past events and happy that I wasn't around to witness his sad excuse for a beard. But alas, this blog post is about much more then Matt's physiology.

Nothing makes me miss all the wonderful folks in the Perl community as not being able to get to YAPC::NA. So while I have not yet watched all of the videos, I did watch the 6 (count them, six!!!) keynotes, and I wanted to just post about my impressions of them.