Travis-CI is a Really Useful Engine, but I've only enabled it for a handful of my GitHub repositories because navigating though GitHub's settings to do so is a bit of a pain.

Seemed like this should be scriptable though - turns out it is! Edit that script to include your GitHub login details, and Travis-CI details, save it as travis-status somewhere in your $PATH, chmod +x travis-status and you're ready to go!

Running travis-status in a project's root directory (and I'm assuming the project's root directory has the same name as the repository's slug) with no parameters will print out a list of all event hooks for the project (not just Travis ones). Running it and passing "1" or "0" as the parameter will enable or disable Travis for the project.

Have you ever whipped up a quick shell script that later you wished was a real program? We did an experimental workshop at MadMongers on Tuesday where we, as a group, roughed out a Perl program from a Windows batch file. The whole process worked out rather well and we plan to try it again with another topic, perhaps something like web scraping or doing something with a web service. Here are the brief notes (also available in MadMongers files):

Premise
We have a windows script that we want to convert to a real programming language for the following reasons:

* Cross platform availability
* Code readability
* Flexibility in parsing, templating, and storage of data
* To learn a real programming language


The existing script looks like this:

cross-posted from dams blog

Perl Redis Mailing List

This is going to be a short post. I'm the new maintainer of Redis.pm, the most used Redis Perl client. Pedro Melo was the previous maintainer, but due to Real Life, he is unable to continue. I'd like to thank him for all his efforts so far in maintaining and improving this module. I hope I'll be able to achieve the same level of quality. Pedro will actually stay around for a while, watching over my shoulder and giving his opinions about stuff, to allow for a smooth transition.

We've used this maintainership change to improve the tools we use around this project. So we've moved the code to the github's PerlRedis organization (notice the cool logo), and I've performed quite a few code cleanups and housekeeping.

But the big thing is the creation of a mailing list, that aims at gathering forces around Redis support in Perl. It's located here, and hosted by the good folks at ShadowCat Systems Limited (thank you guys).

It is not limited to the Redis.pm module: any Perl related Redis topic is welcome, including other Perl clients. So if you have any interest in Perl and Redis, feel free to subscribe !

dams.

This morning, an innocent message landed in my mailbox:

[Stratopan] The Beta Is Here

Usually, advertisements go directly to .. "you-know-where", but this one was highly appreciated!

(Read on for what I did. With screenshots! :-)

Anyone looking for an overview of Marpa's advantages, is encouraged to head straight for chapter 2 of the Marpa Papers.

Apparently Perl doesn't clean up after a failed compile. However far it got sticks around. I didn't discover this myself, but here's an example:

eval <<'HERE';
package Weird;
use strict;
sub foo { print "hi\n" }
sub bar { print "$bar\n" }
1;
HERE

print "\$@ -> $@";

Weird::foo();
Weird::bar();

The Weird package won't compile all the way because it has a strict violation in Weird::bar(). Here's the output, which shows that Weird::foo() was defined and sticks around:

$@ -> Global symbol "$bar" requires explicit package name at (eval 1) line 4.
hi
Variable "$bar" is not imported at (eval 1) line 4.
Undefined subroutine &Weird::bar called at test.pl line 14.

I'd never really thought about this because it was never much of a problem for me.

That's right, Padre, the Perl IDE has just hit the 1.0 milestone.

Sadly there's not a lot of fanfare over this release. For the most part the changes from 0.98 to 1.0 have been patches applied by Kevin Dawson (bowtie) and improvements to the Debugger - Kevin's project in Padre.

The Change list for release 1.0 is as follows:

- Applied Patch in #1488 comment:7 itcharlie++ (BOWTIE)
- Apply patch for #1504 dod++ (BOWTIE)
- Apply patch2 from #1459 bojinlund++ (BOWTIE)
- Update Makefile.PL with new versions (BOWTIE)
- Add Patch for cut n paste adam++ #1312 (BOWTIE)
- Fix Debug ip hanging, use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost (BOWTIE)
- fix some unwanted background noise from debug raw (BOWTIE)
- Apply patch from #1508 itcharlie++ (BOWTIE)
- Add refresh_breakpoint_panel to Wx::Main (BOWTIE)
- Add correct comment for PerlXS (BOWTIE)

As you can see Kevin is keeping the wheels turning and people are submitting patches.

While development isn't as active as it once was, Padre is still seeing improvements, but releases are a little further apart.

If you are using Padre and you want to see something fixed or added feel free to drop into #padre on irc.perl.org say hi, ask questions, change the world! :)

Middleman is ruby web framework to makes developing stand-alone websites simple.

Middleman

Middleman(GitHub)

If you want middleman in Perl, you try the following way.

Mojolicious + Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoRoute

use Mojolicious::Lite;

plugin 'AutoRoute';

You can place template file into auto directory.

  TEMPLATES                           ROUTES
  templates/auto/index.html.ep        # /
                /foo.html.ep          # /foo
                /foo/bar.html.ep      # /foo/bar
                /foo/bar/baz.html.ep  # /foo/bar/baz

You can develop web application with PHP style and can also use Mojolicious all features. You don't need to write routing and controller.