awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

• Website: thelackthereof.org/
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• Posted Perlyglot to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Our small team really enjoys organizing the mostly-annual DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, and we're working on it again for 2020 (NOTE: CFP IS OPEN!!! http://bit.ly/dcbpw2020-cfp). We get a lot out of it, both technically and socially.

  One aspect of th…

• Posted to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Hiya peeps!

  We're looking for more talk submissions for the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop (April 6, 2019, Silver Spring, MD)! Submit by Jan 31 (OR SOONER) at http://bit.ly/dcbpw-cfp and learn more at https://dcbpw.or…

• Posted 2019 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Greetings all!

  After a brief break (and local hosting of The Perl Conference 2017), we are again hosting the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop in Silver Spring, Maryland on Saturday April 6, 2019! The day will be dedicated to two tracks of Perl-related technology talks, targeting all levels of pr…

• Commented on Rakudo.js update - builds sanely and passes some spec tests
  It works!!! Thank you for all your work on this! Hopefully in the next few months we can get more eyeballs and contributions now that this is closer to bootstrapped....
• Posted The Perl Conference 2017 in DC - Schedule Posted to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Check out our super-cool schedule, which links to talk and speaker details, at http://www.perlconference.us/tpc-2017-dc/schedule/!

  The conference is a few weeks away (June 19-21 for the core conference, 18th and 22-23 for tut…

• Posted The Perl Conference 2017 in DC to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Everyone at TPF and the local DC-Baltimore Perlmonger groups are super-excited about the upcoming conference in June! We've posted almost all of the talk descriptions and are working on the full schedule.

  ="http://www.per…

• Posted The Perl Conference 2017 in DC - CFP to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  I'm super excited to be helping organize this year's largest north-american perl conference! Myself and the other DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop organizers are pitching in big time, and it's all starting to come together. Here is our CFP (which we'll keep posting all over the place) :)

• Commented on Working on getting the Perl 6 setting to compile.
  How do you build? I was going to do the above from your latest branch just to experiment a bit....
• Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2016!!! Call for Speakers to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  It's that time again folks! Time to start planning for the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop. I'm pretty sure we are now on year 5, and psyched to see everyone, old and new.

  On behalf of myself and all of the workshop organizers, you are cordially invited…

• Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2015 - Call for Speakers! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Attention Speakers! You are invited to submit talks for the 2015 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, which will be held on Saturday April 11 2015, in Silver Spring, MD (same venue as last year).

  As in pre…

• Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2014 - Call For Speakers to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  (As posted on dcbpw.org)

  Attention Speakers! You are invited to submit talks for the 2014 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, which will be held on Saturday May 3, 2014, in Silver Spring, MD.

  As in previous…

• Commented on perl live coding
  This is very cool!...
• Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2013 -- Next Week! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  The 2nd Annual DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop is almost upon us! In case you haven't heard about it, we'll be having the Workshop in Baltimore this Saturday April 20, and have extra trainings on Sunday April 21.

  We have room for more attendees -- even day-of reg…

• Commented on A perl of your own
  Hmm. I'll have to look to see if I can use that to improve my 'everywhere' module. It is a pretty similar concept, except that 'everywhere' is designed to be used in your top-level wrapper script on a per-application basis....
• Commented on Web Scraping with Perl & PhantomJS
  Sounds totally cool, I'll check it out. You might also look into WWW::HtmlUnit, which is perl bindings for the java library. I've been using that at work for a long time now and like it quite a bit....
• Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2013 - Presenters Wanted! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Greetings!

  On April 20, 2013 we'll be having another DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop! Like last year, this will be a 1-day, 2-track conference celebrating all things Perl! The venue is very close to the train station in Baltimore, so it should be pretty easy to g…

• Commented on ORMs and Their Alternatives
  I don't think I understand - What do the stored procedures give you beyond what you would get from just having your MyProject::DB::Person run the INSERT/UPDATE statements directly?...
• Commented on Lacuna Expanse Goes Open Source
  I linked this to my coworkers for some good Moose and DBIx::Class reading. Thanks! --Brock...
• Commented on WWW::UsePerl::Server
  Fancy! Thanks! :)...
• Commented on NoiseGen: Generate Sound With Perl. Blips and Beeps.
  THIS TALK WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD. Or something....
• Commented on Ruby like code blocks in Perl
  You could do both $_ and the named param :)...
• Commented on Beginning with an end
  That's pretty cool even if it is too fast :)...
• Commented on Work progress on WWW::Mechanize::NodeJs
  WWW::HtmlUnit is certainly more heavyweight than firefox -- but not more heavyweight than firefox + a VM to run it on! :) (maybe headless X isn't so bad) None the less, I look forward to a v8 based server side...
• Commented on Work progress on WWW::Mechanize::NodeJs
  Also check out WWW::HtmlUnit for another solution -- works pretty darn well I say :)...
• Posted DC.pm September Meeting - Foundations of AJAX to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  At tomorrow's DC.pm meeting I'll be giving a talk similar to one I gave a long time ago at Phoenix.pm - a behind-the-scenes look at AJAX, targeting beginners. We'll discuss the history and cultural norms (aka Best Practices), as well as diving briefly into what is…

• Commented on Introducing Java::Bridge (really, this time)
  Not to say you shouldn’t continue your current line of work — but I’ve had some very good luck using Inline::Java when building bindings to the HtmlUnit library (see WWW::HtmlUnit). This includes subclassing and all that. Perhaps something to take...
• Posted DC.pm August 2011 Meeting - Devel::Peek to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  Last Tuesday was our monthly DC Perl Mongers meeting.

  We variable to be used in different contexts. So, for example, let's say you start o…

• Posted Funky Function Filters in Perl6 to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  A while back I wrote about Funky Function Filters. Let me refresh your memory - we have a Python and a Ruby snippet and we translate it into Perl5. The code is a toy to show some fancy shmancy lambda…

• Commented on Starting to use File::ShareDir
  If you're running Dist::Zilla, you can use "dzil run". So I'm doing this: dzil run 'twiggy bin/myapp' You don't even need to add the -Iblib/lib, that is already set up via environment vars. Including the things needed for File::ShareDir, specifically....
• Posted Wish on a Whatever-Star to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)

  The "Whatever-Star" was at first alarming to me! I first noticed it when I learned how to shuffle an entire list. The Whatever-Star can do some other stuff, too. But that's ok, we'll start with this.

  my @shuffled = < alice bob carol dave erik frank >.pick(…

Comment Threads

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on A perl of your own

  nxadm, I think those people are as served as they're going to get by the capacity to have single-line feature bundles.

  Getting from 'one line' to 'no lines' requires a trade-off - in this case 'run this using the myperl script, or apply myperl-rewrite to it'. Doc patches making this clearer would be welcome, but you can't have 'no lines' and 'your old code still works', and I somehow doubt nagios would be amazingly impressed if we broke half the existing plugins to make it easier to write new ones :)

• Steven Haryanto commented on perl live coding

  Is the video running at real time speed? You sure are fast!

• vividsnow commented on perl live coding

  Not real time of course - this is condensed version, because it is boring to watch chars appearing one by one )

• Chankey Pathak commented on perl live coding

  This is so cool!

• Ether commented on Starting to use File::ShareDir

  The right thing to do here is use Test::File::ShareDir from your tests, which does the right thing with your @INC so the local share directory can be found:

  ```
  use Test::File::ShareDir -share => { -dist => { 'My-Dist-Name' => 'share' } };
  ```