One week ago, I happily had the opportunity to be at the QA Hackathon in Paris. In the past I had been vaguely aware that the hackathon exists and I had some shadowy idea of what goes on at such a thing, but I just never considered getting involved. I didn't think it was very much related to the sorts of things I work on. Happily, it turns out that I was wrong.
First off, thanks!
Before I even talk about the code, I need to thank the organizers and the sponsors. Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Laurent Boivin (elbeho) and Les Mongueurs de Perl did an absolutely fanta…
If you saw @kraih's recent MetaCPAN tweet, you'll know that MetaCPAN's ++ feature has been gamed. Now, we were aware there was some potential for gaming. Initially you needed a PAUSE id to be able to ++, but this had an unexpected side effect in that there were some requests for PAUSE accounts with the justification of "I'd like to be able to ++ on MetaCPAN". Because this placed an additional burden on the already busy PAUSE admins, we were asked to remove this requirement.
The result of this was that the bar was…
The MetaCPAN logo contest is now in full swing, thanks in no small part to FLORA for his blood, sweat and tears in organizing it and also to the Enlightened Perl Organization, which fully funded this contest with astonishing speed.
Just to recap, the contest rules are posted at contest.metacpan.org and the entries are being posted at entries.contest.metacpan.org.
Now, you don't need to be a de…
It was exactly 1 year ago today (Nov 3, 2010) that I registered the metacpan.org domain name. Over the course of this year, the project has gone from a couple of guys writing some code to a true community effort. MetaCPAN is steadily being adopted by Perl developers around the globe and it is steadily gaining in functionality.
Together we've created a free, open, collaborative project which makes new tools available to CPAN lovers everywhere. The API has spawned some cool and very useful projec…
I've been messing around with Objective-C off and on for a while now. Whenever I take a break and come back to it, I find myself having to look up some of the same syntax over and over. Some examples would be:
Perl:
$foo =~ s{bar}{baz}g;
Objective-C:
foo = [foo stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"bar" withString:@"baz"];
Perl:
$list{'foo'} = 'baz';
Objective-C:
[list setObject:baz forKey:@"foo"];
One thing in particular that gets me is the assigning a value to a dictionary, like in the example above. Naming the value *befo…