Mark Gardner

• Website: phoenixtrap.com

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• Commented on Kephra: goto (last) edit
  But in TIMTOWTDI manner I may provide an outline anyway. I’m glad you’re considering that. The corollary of TIMTOWTDI is NEWLID: Not Everyone Works Like I Do. Also known as empathy, a too-rare trait in software development....
• Commented on Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Starter - A new way to start using Dist::Zilla
  Thanks! Maybe this will be the spark needed to get off my duff and dzilify the rest of my distros....
• Posted MooseX::App::Cmd to $mjgardner->()

  I'm finally taking advantage of the co-maintainer bit that Yuval Kogman gave me last year and putting out new releases of MooseX::App::Cmd.

• Posted Mentor as anything to $mjgardner->()

  The Google Code-in 2011 is open and I'm one of the mentors for The Perl Foundation's projects. If you are or know a 13- to 17-year-old budding open source developer,

• Commented on I <3/> XML::Rabbit
  Maybe a set of functions that takes care of the is, isa, and traits for each of the XPathFoo traits. Bonus points if you also compose in Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Array or ::Hash as appropriate, so that you can add delegate methods has_xpath_object...
• Posted I <3/> XML::Rabbit to $mjgardner->()

  Just a quick note about how much I appreciate the work Robin Smidsrød has done on XML::Rabbit. I'm now using it on a second project, and the ease in which I can quickly build a set of classes and…

• Commented on Authors vs. Contributors
  Don't fret too much about forking and submitting pull requests for Dist::Zilla. RJBS seems very open to good ideas. Heck, I had a plugin of mine absorbed into the core without even asking for it....
• Posted I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS to $mjgardner->()

  Thanks to the Philadelphia Perl Mongers for hosting my DB Critic talk last night. I got over my public-speaking jitters and it went really well, with great questions and…

• Commented on Mo Moo Moose
  Yah, I'm trying to figure out what the point of all the golf is. If you want to embed it in your own code make a separate tool for that, but don't make it impossible to submit meaningful patches....
• Posted Presenting DB Critic at Philadelphia Perl Mongers tomorrow night to $mjgardner->()

  Just a quick FYI that I'll be presenting DB Critic (née DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic) tomorrow night at the monthly Philadelphia Perl Mongers meeting. We're in Room 307 of…

• Commented on Being anti-social
  I also deleted my Twitter account a few weeks ago, though I didn't announce it. This comment is my first public acknowledgment. I renamed the account before deleting it, though, so that if I did come back after the grace...
• Commented on A new JAPH
  You are in a maze of twisty little labels, all different....
• Commented on The life and death (well, deprecation) of a wrapper module
  Thanks for the module, and thanks for the help making ::Exceptional better!...
• Posted The life and death (well, deprecation) of a wrapper module to $mjgardner->()

  Earlier this year I was frustrated with Salvador Fandiño García's otherwise excellent Net::SFTP::Foreign package. It was in almost all respects the best choice for my current project at work, but the

• Commented on DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic and parameterized roles
  It was originally done with Moose, so you could conceivably go back before version 0.010 to find more Moose-ish ways to do things. Also note that it doesn't require your database have a DBIx::Class layer -- it will create one...
• Commented on DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic and parameterized roles
  I just released version 0.013, which uses a parent role to collect all the names of the applied child roles and glom them into an array reference attribute. Seems to work for what I need, which is a way for...
• Posted My first module: Data::Compare::Plugins::Set::Object to $mjgardner->()

  I wrote Data::Compare::Plugins::Set::Object (blech, what a mouthful) a couple months into my job at GSI. At the time I wasn't sure what if any their policy was on open source…

• Commented on DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic and parameterized roles
  Thanks, I posted this just to get that kind of feedback....
• Posted DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic and parameterized roles to $mjgardner->()

  I originally started DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic as a code sample for a job application, but I thought it was worth releasing and continued independent development. Inspired by Perl::Critic,…

• Posted About me to $mjgardner->()

  I'm a developer currently working as a build automation engineer for an e-commerce services company. I've been working with Perl since 1994, and although I started focused on web applications I've gradually moved into toolsmithing and custom applications.

  My PAUSE/CPAN ID is ="https…

• Commented on What should be core in Perl 5.16?
  It wouldn't be too far from CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS's autobundles to an auto-BeLike creator. Getting back to the topic, here are my votes for core: App::cpanminus App::perlbrew Config::Any DBI, DBD::SQLite local::lib LWP Perl::Critic Perl::Tidy Test::Most Text::Template Try::Tiny YAML::*...

Comment Threads

• dagolden.com commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  My off-the-cuff thoughts:

  • "authors" would be people that get listed in META.* metadata vs "contributors" making contributions, but not being on the hook for contact about the module (which is the definition in the CPAN::Meta::Spec)
  • In some licenses, e.g. Apache 2.0, the term "contributor" has specific meaning, whereas "author" would really mean "licensor" in such a license.

  Ultimately, I think it's a fine idea to acknowledge con…

• Jason Tang commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  "My philosophy is to share credit liberally. There's plenty to go around. An author is a contributor and vice versa.

  Maintainership is different. Someone must guide the project for the long term. If the demarcation of that responsibility must exist, make it explicit."

  I guess this summarises what I meant in a much more elegant and concise fashion.

• Gábor Szabó - גאבור סבו commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  For Padre we have a section called
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS where we list The Padre development team in ABC order and a separate section for translators.
  

  
  Though I am not sure why do we still have them separated.
  

  
  In the about box they put a separate "Created by Gábor Szabó" and I did not argue with them but this is a special case as this is an application that has an about box.

• Robin Smidsrød commented on I <3/> XML::Rabbit

  I guess I couldn't help but do some design work on how the sugar functions would look. See how positive feedback sparks interest?

  I'd really like your feedback on my API suggestions here: https://gist.github.com/1231541

  Name of functions, signature and such was what I came up with after thinking a bit about it. I'm not entirely sure if has_xpath_ is the right prefix for all the functions, maybe xml_ is better?

  What do you think?

• Robin Smidsrød commented on I <3/> XML::Rabbit

  I've created an issue for this feature in the issue tracker on github. I guess it is probably the better place to continue the discussion on this feature.

  https://github.com/robinsmidsrod/XML-Rabbit/issues/2