After some kind member(s) of Vienna.pm brought the server back to life, and some anonymous coward sent me an email via an anon remail asking for fresh data, I got my lazy ass off my chair .. wait, no, actually I stayed seated in my office chair .. so I got my lazy mind off other things and started a complete CPANTS reindex yesterday morning. It took all day, but since of yesterday evening there should be new and up-to-date data available on cpants.perl.org.

Of course the code that's generating the data is rather out of date, especially with regard …

Yesterday we had some troubles setting up a client that should post some utf8 JSON to a web API. The problem was, that the data kept showing up as latin-1. After lots of "fun" with hexdump, wireshark, the debugger and Devel::Peek we verified that we were in fact passing a properly utf8 encoded JSON to LWP::UserAgent like so:

    my $response = $ua->post(
        $self->api_base_url . '/' . $args->{action},
        'Content-type'   => 'application/json;charset=utf-8',
        Content          => $args->{data},
    );

Still we didn't receive utf8 on the server.