By Dean
on December 27, 2018 4:02 PM
The nice folk at Fastmail have published their status webpage application "towncrier" as foss on github. See it running in on their actual status page (link fixed).
It is written in Perl, using Dancer, uses Template Toolkit, and has a REST api interface. It uses SQLite for storage, so for better or worse its quick to install and get running.
Unfortunately the documentation is close to non-existent, though the README file describes how to get it running via carton. The application …
By Dean
on December 24, 2018 2:47 PM
The nopaste utility from the venerable ETHER is a terrific addition to your standard deployment. Installation is trivial with:
cpanm App::Nopaste
This simple utility makes it trivial to send text data to your pastebin-like service of choice. The core distribution includes a half dozen services, and divers others have been published by other authors on the CPAN. Chances are your favorite is already supported - …
By Dean
on December 22, 2018 8:17 PM
This is the first year that I can recall during which I have not been at $work. I like the easy commuting, empty car parks, long lunches etc. then taking leave when everyone comes back.

Since you won't be releasing (will you), it's a great time to work on some "we really should" projects.
Enhancements to monitoring are great candidates. There is always something else that can be graphed or alerted upon.
I stumbled upon this arti…
By Dean
on December 4, 2018 4:37 PM
Thanks TONYC for authoring and releasing Imager::File::WEBP
All three major browsers now support WebP in a backwards compatible way, so with a few small changes to our Imager scripts our webpages can load faster and bandwidth be used more efficiently. Huzah!
By Dean
on November 22, 2018 10:03 PM
Including a wide range of bug fixes and some helpful enhancements as detailed in the Changes file.
If you are using DBD::Oracle, there is no reason not to upgrade (YMMV)
Check it out https://metacpan.org/release/ZARQUON/DBD-Oracle-1.76 or using your preferred CPAN tools