Upasana

• Website: upasana.me
• About: I blog about Perl. I'm still in the early phase of learning perl, so please do let me know if you find any flaws in my posts, I'll appreciate it.

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• Commented on A Grand, 2014
  Congrats! Your new blog is full of awesome news!...
• Commented on The Silver Camel goes to ... Mark Keating
  He deserves it! Congrats, Mark! :)...
• Commented on Inline Granted
  Congratulations & all the best :) (Sorry for being so late, I just discovered this blog of yours)...
• Posted My first YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) to Upasana

  Since, I'm an extremely lazy person, so I'm not going to copy-paste-modify text of this post of mine, so please read it here,…

• Posted General hardware hackathon at YAPC::NA 2014 to Upasana

  How many Perl programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

  Wait, I thought that was a hardware problem. Well, it used to be; now it's a new module to contribute to CPAN, a new web service, or maybe something not dreamed up yet. Thanks to a proliferation of inexpensive SBCs (Single Boa…

• Commented on Is Perl really short of newbies?
  Thanks! Yes, in early days, people moved towards other languages because they found those languages better. But, now perl doesn't have those drawbacks, afait. I think I agree with this a bit, but not totally: "Being popular should not be...
• Commented on Is Perl really short of newbies?
  Sorry for such a late response. Thanks for such detailed comment :) I've never attended any Perl event, since in India there're almost no Perl events organized(except some Bangalore.pm meetups), so I've less idea about perl newbies at conferences. But...
• Commented on Is Perl really short of newbies?
  Thanks for sharing that data :). It'd nice to have relative set of data comparing perl with other languages. I'll search for it. Two Perl trainers I know are Gabor Szabo & Curtis Poe, I'll try to contact both of...
• Commented on Is Perl really short of newbies?
  Thanks for the comment :). Quite helpful :)...
• Posted Is Perl really short of newbies? to Upasana

  Before writing about the main topic, let me tell you a little bit about myself, my peers & why I am writing this blog post etc.

  How I got into perl?
  During my college winter vacations (dec, 2011 to jan, 2012), I was planning to learn something new. I picked up HTML/C…

• Commented on How to upload a perl module on CPAN using Dist::Zilla?
  Oh! I didn't know that. Fixing it now, thanks :)...
• Posted How to upload a perl module on CPAN using Dist::Zilla? to Upasana

  Today, I released my second CPAN module. While writing

• Commented on Yay! Moose is free from stringy exceptions!
  You're welcome & thank you :)...
• Commented on Yay! Moose is free from stringy exceptions!
  Thank you so much :)...
• Commented on Yay! Moose is free from stringy exceptions!
  Thank you so much :)...
• Commented on Yay! Moose is free from stringy exceptions!
  Thank you so much :)...
• Commented on Yay! Moose is free from stringy exceptions!
  Thank you, I've updated it :)...
• Commented on Yay! Moose is free from stringy exceptions!
  Thank you for such a nice comment :) Yes, stringification of exception objects are mostly compatible with the existing error messages. Some of the modules which have not been updated from a long time are failing on my branch....
• Posted Yay! Moose is free from stringy exceptions! to Upasana

  I did an internship for Moose as part of GNOME's Outreach Program for Women. I was supposed to convert all stringy exceptions in Moose to structured exceptions or exception objects. This is my first major contribution to a FOSS project :).

  Code…

Comment Threads

• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmWLlTFxN4q6KkEzqdNFu78YdQt_g9gpp0 commented on The Silver Camel goes to ... Mark Keating

  I never cease to be amazed at what Mark manages to pull off with the LPW, and find myself praying that we don't have to find someone to fill his boots. Thanks Mark!

• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmWLlTFxN4q6KkEzqdNFu78YdQt_g9gpp0 commented on The Silver Camel goes to ... Mark Keating

  p.s ^^^ is written by me, Andrew Solomon. I'm not stalking him, this is just google's sign-in anonymity "feature'':)

• Randal L. Schwartz commented on The Silver Camel goes to ... Mark Keating

  Wait... silver camel? What are those? Tried googling, but that showed nothing.

• Neil Bowers commented on The Silver Camel goes to ... Mark Keating

  Randal: there's only one of them in existence, and it's currently sitting ... in Mark's downstairs loo maybe? :-)

• Gavin Henry commented on The Silver Camel goes to ... Mark Keating

  Go Mark!