By acme
on January 15, 2012 11:12 AM
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software.
The next technical meeting will be on the 26th January 2012 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive earlier, please sign in at the reception). You have to sign up to attend, see below.
It will be hosted by NET-A-PORTER.COM and held at their offices in Westfield London Shopping Centre. Many thanks to Kristian Flint, NET-A-PORTER.COM and everyone invol…
By acme
on November 7, 2011 8:59 PM
I wrote the following email to the Perl 5 Porters mailing list a few days ago. I thought you might enjoy it.
Hello Porters,
I had a dream that Perl 5 had moved from using -> to using . like most modern languages. And moved the existing . for concatenation to ~ like Perl 6. Then I wrote the code and was shocked how tiny it was.
I have this in the leonbrocard/dot branch, but is is really one commit:
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By acme
on October 24, 2011 9:28 AM
I'm on a bit of a roll about unpacking archives. Last week I wrote about peeking into archives and recently I was wondering about extracting archives.
The classic tool for extracting archives is Archive::Extract. This module was originally written for CPANPLUS and has been in the Perl core since 5.10.0. It tries a variety of methods for extracting archives, from pure-Perl modules such as Archive::Zip and Archive::Tar (portable but slow) to exter…
By acme
on October 11, 2011 10:56 AM
Peeking into archives
At little insight goes a long way. I often say that I get my best ideas when I'm in the shower. I relax and my sometimes my brain makes some pretty neat connections.
One example of this is CPAN::Mini::Webserver, which allows you to search and browse a MiniCPAN. One insight was that the 02packages file in CPAN mirrors was full of enough information to be useful to search. The other was that browsing through distributions didn't ac…
By acme
on September 25, 2011 4:55 PM
Recently I've decided that I should change the way I host my email. I've moved to fastmail.fm + offlineimap + Dovecot + Mutt. I've played with a few IMAP clients and am currently back to using Mutt like I used to ten years ago.
I wondered what email clients my friends are using. I could ask them all... or I could write a program to query the London.pm and perl5-porters mailing lists for email user ag…