hashbangperl

• Website: www.aarontrevena.co.uk
• About: Geek, Dad, Husband, hacking perl in Cornwall see also my github and linkedin pages

Recent Actions

• Posted [RANT] Apparently I don't know "localisation".. to hashbangperl

  ..because I didn't include mysql utf8 cruft in a connection string in something.

  Thing is, I've done tonnes of localisation, from parsing named entities in german, to dealing with misconfigured mysql databases, localising currency, numbers and dates to dealing with special cases of greek c…

• Posted [off-topic] I'm cycling 170km around Cornwall for local hospices to hashbangperl

  Ok it's not perl, but plenty of people in bicycle.pm indicate there's an overlap between perl nerdery and bike nerdery..

  Anyway next weekend I'm cycling 106 miles around west cornwall and I'm raising some money for a local hospice charity that I care deeply about - any ="http://just…

• Commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 3
  Thanks Miyagawa - I'll have a look at that and update the article, oddly I was looking for these tools and didn't see bundle....
• Posted Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 3 to hashbangperl

  In part 2 of this series I looked at the "shop window" for rubygems and cpan, and you could see a massive difference in focus both in terms of what was highlighted on the…

• Commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1
  Link no worky, and no I didn't see any mention of it on the pages linked from cpan - maybe they should do so....
• Posted Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 2 to hashbangperl

  In part 1 I looked at numbers, now I want to look at uploading and the uploads themselves.

  Uploading to rubygems is very simple, I don't know or use ruby, but just fro…

• Commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1
  Asknet999, The modulecount site shows distributions, which are (very) roughly equivilent accross repos. It still doesn't include backpan though, so CPAN actually still has more than pypy if you include that (~ 32k instead of ~ 28k). Yes, I think...
• Posted Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1 to hashbangperl

  So I noticed that CPAN is no longer king of the hill when it comes to sheer number of packages - rubygems took that title mid 2011 (when exactly depends on whether you include dev…

• Posted Starting caretaker work on PDF::Report to hashbangperl

  I adopted PDF::Report a couple of weeks ago after contacting the authors, who were happy to provide me with the privs I needed on pause, since then I've created a github repo but not had a chance to do any of the work I've been planning.

  Before I start messing around with ="https://…

• Commented on A perl devops mailing list
  Somebody beat me to it a while ago - go team lazyweb :)...
• Commented on A perl devops mailing list
  Yeay - I can't believe I didn't look before asking the lazyweb :) Handy - subscribed...
• Posted A perl devops mailing list to hashbangperl

  Anybody else interested in starting a perl devops mailing list or other group - there is a load of cool stuff out there, and few people have heard of half of it - would be nice to be able to keep up to date, discuss ideas, etc.

  Good example : rexify.org - wi…

• Posted Starting work on new release of PDF::Report soon to hashbangperl

  I heard back from Andy Orr and Aaron Mitti, and they were happy for me to put in some work and a fresh release - already created the github repo and outlined a brief roadmap.

  More to follow soon

• Posted paging Andy Orr (PAUSEID:AORR) to hashbangperl

  Has anybody heard anything from Andy Orr (PAUSEID:AORR) in the last 18 months - He has a CPAN module (PDF::Report) with bugs untouched since 2009 and no cpan uploads since then.

  Mailing his cpan mail has had no response, I'm hoping somebody who is still in touch with him could provide an u…

• Posted Messing around with Calendars to hashbangperl

  So I've been messing around with Calendars a bit for fly-half in order to handle events and stuff like that nice nicely... in a typical ADHD Yak Shaving event I ended up writing a new CPAN module for dealing with Calendars :

• Commented on 50% of the new CPAN uploads lack a repository link
  Thanks Gabor - I think most of my projects are missing this and I've been wanting to fix that for a while, so it's really helpful :)...
• Posted Using Perl's Catalyst/HTML::FormHandler integration with Bootstrap and JQuery to hashbangperl

  dpetrov (Dimitar Petrov) has forked, improved and now hosted the HTML::FormHandler demo/example app on dotcloud, and it looks rather nice!

  You can explore the demo at http://formhandler-perl.dotcloud.com/ and see the sourcecode behind it …

• Posted Read/Write Web bag o links to hashbangperl

  * Command Query Responsibility Segregation - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
  * https://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2012/10/a-websocket-mojoliciousdbi-example.html
  * http://www.slideshare.net/dkrotkine/dancing-with-websocket

• Commented on This is why I love Template Toolkit
  Petdance - in this case META was just setting a global, I'd only need it really if using PRE_PROCESS - I was muddled about the order of processing wrappers and thought I needed it. Ranguard - you don't need the...
• Posted This is why I love Template Toolkit to hashbangperl

  So I recently learnt about Template Toolkits META directive - I mean I've seen it scattered around here and there but never really seen it do much more than provide default page titles.

  I have been annoyed at the inelegant workarounds I've had to use when organising a web app with a site w…

• Posted Moved older projects from googlecode/svn to github to hashbangperl

  I've moved Autodia and Maypole to github so that it's easier to share or hand over, and make the development more open and interactive.

  Hopefully this means that if somebody wants to take the ball and run with it by taking over Maypole it should be pretty easy to handover, also I may be ab…

• Posted Tidying up my old CPAN code to hashbangperl

  I've just decided to spend a couple of hours tidying up my CPAN projects - surprising how little you can get done in an evening if you let things slip.. on the plus side, I've made a start and cleaned things up a bit :

  • Autod…
• Posted Come and code perl with me in sunny Cornwall to hashbangperl

  We're looking for a senior perl developer to join our team at headforwards, based in the Pool Innovation Centre in Cornwall - we're an agile team using scrum, shiny mac workstations with big screens in…

• Posted New release of Autodia - now with Mason support to hashbangperl

  I've uploaded a new version of autodia to PAUSE and it should be available on CPAN shortly.

  Highlights of this release are :
  * added Mason handler provided by Peter Franke
  * new ASP Handler provided by Dalton Mackie
  * improved tests (and made some tests author_only)
  …

• Posted Padre plugin for Autodia to hashbangperl

  One of the cool benefits of my new job at Connected-UK is that I get a day a month to hack CPAN/FLOSS projects.

  So far, I've done some work on Autodia, ="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-HTM…

Comment Threads

• Ether commented on 50% of the new CPAN uploads lack a repository link

  It isn't true that Dist::Zilla only adds this data to the META.json and not META.yml -- just that the data in META.yml is slightly different, as it uses the v1.4 metaspec not v2.0.

  Also, please take note of the plugins Module::Install::GithubMeta and Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GithubMeta, which can simplify the process further by reading the repository information directly out of git.

• Ben Bullock commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1

  Something else that rubygems has, is a script included in rubygems for building and uploading, that could make life easier for new uploaders

  cpan-upload! I think it's mentioned on the PAUSE page somewhere, but it's easy to miss.

  
  

• Ben Bullock commented on Comparing Apples and Oranges - rubygems vs cpan part 1

  That link works for me but anyway nowadays it seems that

  https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_uri

  links you to

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/cpan-upload-http/