After practicing a proto-talk--and getting very good feedback--at the Houston Perl mongers meeting last week, I wanted to pass on some of the points that came up over beers on the patio of Velvet Melvin Pub. Discuss, or not.
- I've talked and written a lot about modulinos, and I've always thought about translating the way into the program, translating command-line invocations to the module calling interface. A couple people brought up issues on the way out too--you need to translat…
I always have more ideas than time to work on them.
- Something in Mojolicious to act as a credential wallet, like LWP's
credentials. I got about half way to implementing it while learning the code base at the same time. I know I could do that on my own, but I'd like Mojo to handle it. I think it's just got to do the same things that the Cookies module does its work.
An updated version of twiddle-regex program. John Klassa wrote this years ago. It's a Tk app that I've found it again and created…
Several people were talking in Twitter about The Perl Review Community Calendar. If your event is missing, the easiest thing is for you to get a commit bit so you can update your event how you like. Either I or Renée Bäcker can give you access, and I think there are other people who can manage sharing. I should set up one of those fancy FAQ things for this.
The Perl Review Community Calendar is for non-recurring or infrequent major events (so, not your monthly …
"Mike" asks on blogs.perl.org "Is the book worth buying?", specifically asking about The Definitive Guide to Catalyst.
I wrote this over a year ago, but I never posted it. I found it again when I was writing Can you learn Perl from an old Learning Perl?. I still like it, so I've give…
I'm the author of Mastering Perl, and the co-author of Learning Perl (6th Edition), Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl (4th Edition) and Effective Perl Programming (2nd Edition).