Shantanu Bhadoria

• Website: www.shantanubhadoria.com
• About: I live in Singapore and I write about Perl, Travel and Work.

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• Posted So I went to Mongolia and rode a Camel to Shantanu Bhadoria

  For some reason I just felt this deserved to be posted here.
  

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• Commented on Perl and Raspberry Pi
  Interesting, I wish I was in your city to see this. I have my own dormant project to build a quadrotor using Raspberry PI and Perl. I used the tiny PCA9685 chip coupled with Pi for controlling the brushless motors...
• Commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader
  Sometimes updating Pod::Simple helps(I had to do that to get nested encoding errors), I also noticed your pod weaver puts =encoding utf8 message in the wrong place in Text::Widechar::Util package( i didn't look in your other distros but maybe they...
• Commented on JSON and alternatives and an extension proposal
  There is actually a dirty way to send images over json, Just base64 encode the image and put it in the json object like so : perl -MMIME::Base64 -MFile::Slurp -E'say encode_base64 read_file "test.png"' and then decode using perl -MMIME::Base64 -MFile::Slurp...
• Commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader
  Have you tested your Pod for your distributions? Metacpan sometimes doesn't pick distributions if there are certain Pod errors in it, cpan.org might forgive similar errors. You should check cpants on your distributions missing from metacpan.org. I had a similar...
• Commented on Fancy writing a Dist::Zilla plugin?
  Hi Neil, Good to see that you are still pushing through on the quest! I use the following module to get a Changes file from git commits: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ChangelogFromGit::CPAN::Changes There used to be a issue for distributions that were not following...
• Commented on What are the files in a CPAN distribution?
  Thats a useful thread but a nice addition in the thread would be some explanation about the /corpus folder :)...
• Commented on Memcached to the rescue
  Here is the problem that I see with these caching solutions. Why write so much code to retrieve one cached value??? my $content = $cache->get($key); unless ($content) { process_request(); $cache->store($key, $content); } $content = $cache->get($key); 5 lines to get one...
• Commented on Confessions of a Dist::Zilla newbie
  Welcome back!! Dzil has a steeper learning curve as I myself learnt a few months ago but it helps you to keep your repository clean if you use the right plugins you don't have to keep makefiles, READMEs etc. in...
• Commented on Perl Programming Certificate
  nevertheless this is the first time I heard of it. I might try my hand at the advanced or applied. its always good to brush up things, gives you a perspective on what you've learned since the last time you...
• Commented on Params::Validate::Dependencies
  Thanks I will take a look. Is this something on the lines of Moose::Role for non Moose packages?...
• Commented on A compelling reason for Perl6
  @perldreamer I just checked out WEBGUI. That looks great! It does need more convenient way to add plugins and extensions. Personally I would like to see a CMS that can remotely download and install new plugins from a repo at...
• Commented on A compelling reason for Perl6
  Nice article, but I disagree on the need to have a web framework with tighter integration with client libraries like Jquery? I think thats the kind of work to be left to a CMS? On that note we do need...
• Commented on Bangalore.pm meetup 6th August 2011
  Thanks guys! We are working hard for this. In time we will have critical mass, then we can breath easy. :) @Erez Thanks for your wishes for the Bangalore Royal Challengers :)...
• Commented on Acme::CPANAuthors::India
  Yeah you are right, I should have linked to the module. Sorry about that. Here you go : http://search.cpan.org/~shantanu/Acme-CPANAuthors-India-0.05/lib/Acme/CPANAuthors/India.pm...
• Commented on The Game Crafter
  Thanks for the post. It sounds very cool that you have produced 10k games! I will try this out....
• Posted Bangalore.pm meetup 6th August 2011 to Shantanu Bhadoria

  Last month we kicked of the meetups for the fledgling Bangalore.pm group. Our first meetup in July was attended by 3 devs including myself to kick things off, this saturday we had our second ever meetup of Bangalore.pm.
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• Commented on CPAN modules for generating passwords
  The problem with that option is that its not always the same platform. Not all platforms will support `pwgen`. Using command line interfaces makes the code highly platform dependent. It might work in cases where thats not an issue however....
• Posted Acme::CPANAuthors::India to Shantanu Bhadoria

  I just released the Acme::CPANAuthors::India today, Its based on the Acme::CPANAuthors. There are similar pre-existing modules for other countries and especially extensive ones for most of europe in the Acme::CPANAuthors::* namespace but…

• Posted File::UStore a UUID based File Storage Abstractor, Why would a temp folder not be writable??? to Shantanu Bhadoria

  Its been a few months since I released the File::UStore module to cpan and it has gradually attained stability over time. Not that there were a lot of bugs to begin with. Most of the bugs were in the tests rather…

Comment Threads

• Neil Bowers commented on Fancy writing a Dist::Zilla plugin?

  Shantanu,

  I am happy to report that with my dzil bundle reconfigured, I am at full spec compliance now :)

  Excellent - good man!

• JT Smith commented on Perl and Raspberry Pi

  We'll post the slides to madmongers.org after the talk. Not as good as being there, but better than nothing.

• Shlomi Fish commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader

  chimerix: aria2 does indeed seems interesting and it has implemented my "secret sauce". However, its granularity is limited to one megabyte of data, while Maniac Downloader goes down to 8 KB or 4 KB, and I was told by someone that it didn't improve the download speed. Furthermore, its integration with Mageia’s urpmi seems lacking because downloading with it does not display the progress of the download which is frustrating (but I suppose this can be fixed in urpmi’s side). Anyway, I will mention aria2 as a viable alternative on various places.

• Shlomi Fish commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader

  Hi Zak. I have been familiar with lftp (having used it after the demise of ncftp) but I wasn't aware it supported split downloading and HTTP/HTTPS . I'll take a better look at it now as well. Thanks!

• Raspberry Pi Kits commented on Perl and Raspberry Pi

  Just had a flick through the slides, this looks interesting, I can't wait to have a go! So far I've only used Python with the Raspberry Pi.