Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community.
Essentially you set up a git post-commit hook that causes your tests to get run on every commit, against a number of different Perl versions, with databases and other services available if needed. And it's all free!
If you visit https://travis-ci.org/ you can get a feel for the interface and the tests that are being run. For a particular commit you get a build, for example WebService::Nestoria::Search build 1, which has a sub-build per Perl version, for example WebService::Nestoria::Search build 1.1 (perl 5.16). As you can see you get the full output from the Ubuntu VM that's running your tests, so if anything does go wrong it's pretty simple to debug.
For the rest of this post I'm going to describe the integration process, in particular hitting on how to make it work with Dist::Zilla-based projects.
Three Saturdays ago I attended the fourth Perl School, which was about DBIx::Class.
Top line summary: it was brilliant!
This was the second course I've attended from Dave Cross, and the first one under the Perl School banner. Dave has been using Perl heavily for around two decades up to and including this year, which gives him a very deep knowledge that is also firmly up-to-date. He is also an excellent presenter and trainer, so all that knowledge…
So Tumblr, well known blogging platform, has this feature where you can set up a simple site and then invite people to ask you questions. I thought it would be fun to try out doing this for Perl.
http://askjaph.tumblr.com/
Why?
- Get the Perl name out there some more
- Offer yet another place other than Linked In and Stack Overflow for people to ask questions about Perl
- Teaching a subject is the best way to learn that subject
- Give me something to do with my abundance of free time (…
(cross-posted from jobs@london.pm.org)
Hi guys and girls,
We're looking for a Perl developer with 2+ years of experience programming
professionally to join our engineering team in central London, primarily to
work on the Nestoria property search engine (http://www.nestoria.com)
Nestoria is a great product to work on. As a vertical search engine we work
hard to solve many of the same problems as a larger search company:
Hey,
Cross-posting this from a Stack Overflow Question asked by a colleague.
Some processes that run for multiple hours (ETL jobs) suddenly started consuming a lot more RAM than usual. Analysis of the changes in the relevant release is a slow and frustrating process. I am hoping to identify the culprit using more automated analysis.
Our live environment is perl 5.14 on Debian squeeze.
I have access to lots of OS X …
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