David Hodgkinson

• Website: www.davehodgkinson.com/
• About: Perly things.

Recent Actions

• Commented on Web Scraping with Zydeco
  Why the :: in front of class names? Please point me at the relevant docs....
• Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
  Don't sweat it. I've ignored the challenges....
• Commented on Marketing & Branding Survey Results
  Only 220? I'd expect 10x more....
• Commented on Increasing Perl's Visibility
  Sadly, both my CPAN modules need to be deprecated. One upgraded their API, the other made it usuriously commercial and there are better sites :(...
• Commented on Sunday Moose Test
  This isn't on CPAN?...
• Commented on Machine learning in Perl: Kyuubi goes to a (Model)Zoo during The Starry Night.
  All good stuff. I did a quick audit of the Perl AI modules and they all seemed pretty dead. Is MxNet being supported well? Is there much need for it to be? Also, I recently used Net::RawIP for a quick...
• Commented on Perl and AI
  Latest Ubuntu has an AI::FANN apt install!...
• Posted Perl and AI to davehodg

  Following a brain fart, I've had a dig around for AI related stuff in perl. I haven't found much currently active, except an interface library for an Apache project (which looks good). I've found very little in the sentiment analysis sphere. This is what I've found so far:

  ="http://…

• Commented on Check your test coverage with Devel::Cover
  Probably worth mentioning that to do dzil cover, you need: Dist::Zilla::App::Command::cover...

Comment Threads

• Sébastien Feugère commented on Web Scraping with Zydeco

  Zydeco prefixes your class names with the package name. The :: in front of class names will avoid this.>

  This is explained with an example in this documentation.
  

• Sébastien Feugère commented on Web Scraping with Zydeco

  Thanks for sharing this: it helps to have a real life example that go beyond the Foo::Bar app.

• Toby Inkster commented on Web Scraping with Zydeco

  Zydeco treats class names and role names as relative to the container package unless you prefix them with "::".

  Relevant docs.

• Matthew Persico commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges

  Wait? You think that the point of these challenges is to make people feel they "are not smart enough"?

• Martin McGrath commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges

  The point of perl weekly challenges is quite well defined on their site. None of it is intentionally designed to make people feel bad about not being able to tackle a challenge.

  The barrier for participation is what, able to use some git at a fairly basic level, understand the particular challenge (if you are unfamiliar with the topic in question this needs research on your part), figuring out an approach, applying that in perl, rinse and repeat until you have something that achieves the goal. That doesn't seem unreasonable, since that is what a great deal of programming/problem sol…