So after
yesterday's
little review I finally got to do some coding on Driver::DBI and the first thing I got working was my '00_load.t' test case. All I needed to do with the present sate of the code is add in;
my $in_hash = {
++ da_compose_only=>1,
view => { name => 'name' }};
to that test case and the error I was getting from DBI;
BD::ExampleP::db prepare failed: Syntax error in select statement ("1") at
went away. Now the error was caused by this sub in Driver::DBI
The Lab::Measurement project provides Open Source control of test & measurement devices with Perl. On our recent poster, which was presented at this year's DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, we mainly discuss the high-level aspects of Lab::Measurement necessary to perform highly complex measurement tasks with simple scripts.
Now, the topic of this post is the CPAN release of Lab::Zhinst, which provides a Perl5 interface to devices from Zurich Instruments, a vendor of fast digital lock-in amplifiers, phase-locked loops, arbitrary waveform generators, impedance analyzers, digitizers, and boxcar averagers. There is no doubt about the excellent performance of their hardware. But when it comes to their approach to measurement automation it very much differs from what is commonly provided by Test & Measurement equipment. Let me explain by comparing their proprietary approach to the existing open interfaces. These open interfaces make it possible to control test & measurement equipment with general-purpose programming languages, like Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, or what have you.
The 19th German Perl Workshop will take place in roughly two months time in Hamburg. The German-speaking Perl Community will meet from the 26th to the 28th of June 2017
in the "Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg".
Yesterday I summed up what I was up to over the past month or so since I left the Dist-Pen, So tadoy as I am rather sort on time I will just do a quick post-ette on the state of Database::Accessor::Driver::DBI.
Well just for kicks before I revisited any of the Driver::DBI code I re-ran the the very limited test suite of two test case and got a full fail, so I guess every thing is broken.
Looking at the code the first think I noticed was that I have this sub
sub _warn {
my $self = shift;
my ($message) = @_;
warn("Database::Accessor::Driver::DBI: $message ");
}
Which I was using to key of this DA flag 'da_warning' now what I think I will do is hop back to 'Database::Accessor::Roles::Driver' and add this in
Now that I am finally finished with Database::Accessor for the moment as since my last post all my tests are passing, I think it is time for a quick recap of what when on since this post when I left the Dist-Pen and started up the Moose-Pen.
The first few post I set out on writing my first Driver::DAD, I worked out some name-space issues and finally came up with Database::Accessor::Driver::DBI rather than SQL as most DBI drivers run on SQL is just seemed locgial.
The second set of posts I started to write up my Driver::DBI and ran into the problem very quickly that I needed some sort of DBI DB present on the current box to do any testing. I solved this as 'DBD::DBM::db' comes with DBI so I decided to use that for my testing. I even got one or two test cases written and a little code done.
While we are all looking forward to the Perl Conference in Amsterdam, it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to think about the location of the 2018 conference. So if you always wanted to invite the European (and International) Perl Community to your hometown for three days of massive Perl, drop us a line at venue@yapceurope.org.
We are excited to announce The Swiss Perl Workshop 2017. This year the workshop will be held in Villars-sur-Ollon, in the French speaking part of Switzerland. The workshop will be in English.
Please spread the word, register, submit talks, and come enjoy a perl workshop in the mountain air. Oh, there will also be beer/wine/drinks and pizza from the real pizza oven at the GivenGain office (although we need to do a test run first).
Do not ask what Perl can do for you, ask what you can do for Perl!
In my effort to bring the new signature back to older versions of Perl, I'm
maintaining Filter::signatures,
a source filter that simply converts the signatures to the equivalent old-style
Perl code. That filter works surprisingly well for its simplicity and has caused
very little in problems.
I left off from yesterdays
post
with few more tests to clean up and a new one or two to write up. Might as well get the low hanging fruit first and that is this error;
Can't locate object method "dynamic_conditions" via package "Database::Accessor::Driver::Test" at 43_dynamic_conditions.t line 54.
and the change was a very easy removal of that 'dynamic_' from the test;
This is the third article in a series on CPAN distribution metadata. The first article was a general introduction, and the second article looked at dependencies, and in particular the different phases that you can specify dependencies for (configure, build, runtime, test, and develop). In this article, we'll cover the different types of dependencies and how you combine these with the phases (described in the previous article) to specify the dependencies (or prereqs) for your CPAN distribution.
This article is brought to you by MaxMind, a gold Sponsor for this year's Toolchain Summit, being held next month (May) in Lyon, France. The summit is only possible with the support of our sponsors.
Hello all,
In my first blog post I've announced AI::MXNet, Perl interface to the MXNet machine learning library.
The eight weeks that passed after that were quite fruitful, I've ported whole python's test suite, fixed multiple bugs, added docs, examples, high level RNN interface, Perl API docs has been added to the official MXNet website.
This time I'd like to review in detail three examples from the examples directory.
First one is a simple calculator, a fully connected net that is structured to learn
four basic arithmetic operators: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Second example is a comparison of two different approaches to the task of classification
of handwritten digits, and the third one is an example of LSTM RNN network trained to generate Shakespeare like text.
Here is the image (generated by
Graphviz
) of the calculator network.
The data input is two numbers, that are being routed via two paths; first path is turning the input values into natural logarithms and feeds these into one neuron sized fully connected layer.
In January this year, I got Jemplate in the CPAN Pull Request Challenge. The module implements Template::Toolkit in JavaScript, so you can transfer the burden to process the templates from the server to the client.
One of the open issues in its GitHub repository caught my attention: Jemplate compiled all the templates coming from different files into one large JavaScript code-block. If you declared two blocks with the same name in two different files, they’d end up in the same hash in JavaScript, and only one would survive—but you couldn’t tell which one. Keeping block names unique across files probably isn’t part of common practice, so making the module warn you in such a case sounded like a reasonable requirement.
Still stuck in the Accessor.pm in the Moose-pen today.
Since I decided in yesterday's post to make one more round of changes I am a little closeer to getting back to Driver::DBI but not much.
For today's changes I decided to go full out and re-factor a good chunk of the common code between Accessor.pm and any DAD that I might write. Not to bore you with reamls of code pasting you will never read I will give you the over-view.
First action was to strip out the attributes from Database::Accessor::Roles::Driver and Database::Accessor that where the same and put them into a new role 'Database::Accessor::Roles::Common'. My Driver Role is now just a few lines
The Perl Conference this year is going to be in the DC-Metro area, specifically in Alexandria, VA at the United States Patent Office. We've got some great talks lined up and are continuing to update the schedule at http://www.perlconference.us/tpc-2017-dc/schedule.
Register and reserve your spot to listen to speakers like Damian Conway, Mark Jason Dominus and Sawyer X to name a few. You can purchase tickets for our event and/or the tutorial sessions here.
The local PM groups (DC and Baltimore) are really excited about hosting this year's Perl Conference. I hope to see you there.
I don't mind working with Spreadsheets. Much of my work consists of creating
Spreadsheets from SQL queries. Sometimes, the resulting spreadsheet should be
a pivot table, listing some values across the spreadsheet. For most of my
Spreadsheet-generation needs, Querylet
is sufficient, but it cannot create pivot tables.
