Salve J. Nilsen

• Website: code.foo.no/
• About: Someone in Oslo, Norway

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• Posted A FOSS Ecosystem Checklist for the Benefit of Maintainer Sustainability to Salve J. Nilsen
  1. Maintainers̵…
• Commented on Assert Your Environment
  Yeah, this is good stuff. Would you be ok with presenting it at the Perl conference in Helsinki in August? :-) https://PerlKohaCon.fi...
• Commented on Proposal for Perl Foundation Memberships
  I completely agree with Dean about not having membership (including corporate partnerships) is a wasted opportunity, and I would LOVE to see YAS' bylaws be changed to open to this revenue source. And to those of you who say "But...
• Posted A FIXIT-dive into an old CPAN module to Salve J. Nilsen

  Let’s have a thought experiment. Assume there is an Open Source-licensed Perl module published on CPAN that you care about, and that hasn’t had any updates in a very long time - what are your options?

  In this blog post, I’ll take a dive into this problem, and use the Geo:…

• Posted A Perl Toolchain Summit 2018 organiser's report to Salve J. Nilsen

  The 2018 edition of the Perl Toolchain Summit is over! I’ve posted my report from it on my own blog.

• Posted Perl Toolchain Summit 2018: Oslo, Norway to Salve J. Nilsen

  Every year we bring together the lead developers of the Perl and CPAN toolchain! This event was previously known as the QA Hackathon, but in 2016 it became the Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) to more accurately reflect the scope and purpose.

  This is an event where pressing issues around Perl&#…

• Commented on Python is The New "Write-Only, Linenoise" Language
  Now, now, let's not go about bashing the pythonistas! They have still a gem of a language, perfectly cromulent for many things and with a long future in front of them! ;)...
• Commented on Fluent interfaces in Perl 6
  How would you write Martin Fowler's JMock example (which you linked to) in Perl 6?...
• Commented on We are all Perl's ambassadors...
  Ooh, correction to myself; CPANRatings is on github! https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb/tree/master/lib/CPANRatings :D...
• Commented on We are all Perl's ambassadors...
  One obvious way to improve the situation is by letting CPANratings "time out", so old (and presumably fixed) comments get a reduced visibility. I think cpanratings.perl.org can be made into a much better resource than it is today, but this...
• Posted CPAN Day 2014 in Oslo to Salve J. Nilsen

  Oslo Perl Mongers are organizing a CPAN Day event! \o/

  Tomorrow (Saturday August 16th 2014), we’ll be hanging out at the Hackeriet (Norwegian for “The Hackery”) hackerspace, helping anyone dropping by with CPAN and Perl issues they may h…

• Commented on The 2013 White Camels
  Well done and kudos to the deserving winners! :D...
• Commented on YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2013 is over
  Whoa, that's impressive. You guys rock! :)...
• Commented on Once More Unto The Breach
  Thanks for taking another stab at this, Stevan. :)...
• Commented on Unicode is 20++ years old and still a problem
  Maybe the guy who wrote the software hasn't bumped into your usage pattern? If you want to make him/her aware of what you found, try filing a bug report (with a failing test, if possible :). Also, it might be...
• Commented on When to create a branch in Git?
  Also, "git rebase -i " ftw. :) It's *very* nice to be able to reorganize and squash several related commits to one. Makes the commit history so much easier to manage....

Comment Threads

• john napiorkowski commented on Python is The New "Write-Only, Linenoise" Language

  Having had to endure 20 years of being hassled for choosing Perl5, I wish we can take the high road here and not perpetuate it. I don't like Python but a ton of people do, so I am cool with that. I just want them to be cool with me choosing Perl5.

• Zoffix Znet commented on Python is The New "Write-Only, Linenoise" Language

  Taking the high road doesn't mean pretending the other language doesn't exist. Just as with political opinions, religion, and the correct way to place the toilet roll, we can compare and discuss. The Python folks chimed in on this post and I added the "Update" section :)

• Anony777 commented on Python is The New "Write-Only, Linenoise" Language

  I think this blog is not fair because the Perl 6 code is a lot of shortcut, this make Perl 6 unreadable to many programmers. In Python code you see the "Algorithm" compare to Perl 6 "One liners". The author of this don't understand what people mean by "line-noise".

• chris fedde commented on Python is The New "Write-Only, Linenoise" Language

  Every time this issue comes up I have to point at http://www.ioccc.org/index.html

• Dean commented on Python is The New "Write-Only, Linenoise" Language

  In python, you cant "next" out of multiple loops.

  In PHP you have to count your way out.

  
  Thats all for me. Perl labels > all