A Twist of a Date
Here’s a quickie little post, just to remind everyone of the usefulness of Date::Easy.
Recently, I downloaded some pictures from Google Photos, and unzipped them into my directory of other photos. I ended up with something that looked like this:
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Well! said I. This is hardly ideal. A foolish consistency may well be the hobgoblin of little minds, as Emerson once wrote, but there is certainly something to be said for a sensible consistency. But ... how to achieve it?
A Date with CPAN, Update #3: Golden Jubilee
[This is an addendum post to a series. You may want to begin at the beginning. The last update was update #2.
IMPORTANT NOTE! When I provide you links to code on GitHub, I’m giving you links to particular commits. This allows me to show you the code as it was at the time the blog post was written and insures that the code references will make sense in the context of this post. Just be aware that the latest version of the code may be very different.]
In case you missed my talk on Date::Easy from a couple years back, I’ll sum it up for you: dates are hard, y’all.
On January 1st of 2019, a bunch of unit tests for Date::Easy started failing. It was immediately reported, of cours
Please Don't Throw Me into that Briar Patch ...
[Quick note: This is mostly a Git story, although there’s plenty of links to Perl code and Perl discussions. It also turned out to be quite a bit longer story than I originally intended. But, even though it gets pretty deep into Git features, I think it should be interesting enough for anyone who has a CPAN module and uses Git. I hope.]
The Backstory: So, a couple months back, I look in my email and spy a message from Damian Conway. Now, some of you fine readers probably know Damian personally, and I’m sure I’ll get …
A Random Story
For my first (real) tale, I thought I’d tell the story of how I came to be the maintainer for Data::Random.
I first came across this module when I was trying to find some way to test some date routines I was doing for $work. Funnily enough (or not, depending on your perspective), the date routines were themselves for testing—I’m working on introducing TDD to my department, and so I try to maintain a decent li…
16 years in California, 27 years in Perl, 36 years in computers, 57 years in bare feet.