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So today in the Moose pen I am going to have a closer look at my Role from my last post . So here it is

After encountering CodeNewbie at OSCON 2016 I've been thinking a lot about why there are so few new developers interested in Perl. I haven't been a Perl beginner for a very long time so I went looking for resources and found FAQ for the beginners mailing list. I wanted to know how active the mailing list was so I immediately went to the web achive. Reading through the list I saw things like:

"Is there a reason why you think one CPU is better than another?"

"your code exhibits many bad elements, and you don't seem to apply all the advice I've been giving you. Please go over http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ , read it and internalise it."

Condescending, abusive advice is worse than no advice at all. There's no way I'd send a beginner into that. Nobody should have to learn like that. Seeing it ruined my afternoon. Maybe I should have read more of the FAQ:

"Who owns this list? Who do I complain to?"

This is a FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION?

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[From my blog.]

Hi,

This is my first post here and it will be a short one.

I was asked to count chinese characters in a string. Most of us know the annoying task of writing an essay with $n words. For chinese it will be $n characters.

Would be a shame if we take this too serious and write too much.

so:



my Str $text = "你好! 我喜欢吃菜!";


$text ~~ s:g/ \W | \d //;

say $text.chars;

And that's it.

So why even blog about it? What I think is amazing is that all worked with the first attempt.
I often just try stuff in perl6 without knowing if it will work the way I think it will work.

However most of the time, it just does... and this is why I love this language!

Keep up the great work!!

Ben

So today in the Moose-pen I was going to move out of the testing mode and actually do a little more coding, well some re-factoring anyway.

One of the best things about re-factoring Moose code is how easy it is to use a Role to stomp out all sort of duplicated code.

So of you may of already spotted s little anti-patter I had going on on most of my Database::Accessor classes and that was the;

 has 'name' => (
        required => 1,
        is     => 'rw',
        isa      => 'Str'
    );

and

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Pod::Coverage

[...] expects to find either a =head(n>1) or an =item block documenting a subroutine.

In pure TIMTOWTDI spirit, it's up to you to decide which style you want to adopt. There are PROs and CONs, though.

I needed to do some work with splunk the log and monitoring analytics toolkit. Specifically I needed to combine disparate logs from different systems to solve a problem that had been intefering with our systems for a long time. I had a look around for stuff on the CPAN, but it was either embedded into other bigger things that I didn't want to have to deal with, or did not work for me for maintenance reasons. So I decided to write my own. The library I wrote is available here in draft form.

Now because this was written by me for debugging purposes, I think it shouldn't be a CPAN module - not without a lot of hardening it up - but I wanted to share it anyway, as a handy way of doing API integration.

So To carry on from my last short post another short post. I am going to expand and modify my 20_dad_load.t again this time digging a little deeper in Moose's MOP or to give its full name 'Meta-Object Protocol'

One of the things I like most about moose is how easy it is to do “Introspection” or I like to say 'Lets have a look under the hood'. So I have expanded my role test from the other day to this

Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week. Enjoy!

A simple nginx installer with #sparrow - nice asciinema video!

https://asciinema.org/a/06h3ezswbyidu0pdl993rl30v

#nginx #perl #devops #automation

And ... yeah I forgot to say cpanm Sparrow at the very beginning .... ))

Interesting Twitter Searches:

• #womenwhocode #javascript - Uncountable Entries
• #womenwhocode #python - Uncountable Entries
• #womenwhocode #perl - NO ENTRIES

Ok, how about these:

• #codenewbie #javascript - Uncountable Entries
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• #codenewbie #perl - 2 Entries

Are we a support group for disenfranchised Perl developers or advocacy group for all developers? If we want people to join our community then we need to reach out and do some good in theirs.

So just a quick one for the Moos-pen today.

I my last post I did create a Test DAD, but then I discovered the problem with doing this is you may spend considerable time just debugging that class to make sure it at least works with any roles it may have to consume and even if you get it to work you may have problems with the roles it is trying to consume.

So I really should test my Database::Accessor::Roles::DAD before I start any load tests,. My basic test I did in a previous post it a good start bur I want to be able to test it before I have says a 100% good DAD. So Moose come to the resque again with MooseX::Test::Role

With this MooseX I can test my role without a 100% perfect consuming class as it just stubs in any subs the role may require. So in 20_dad_load.t I add in

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I've been programming in Perl 5 since 2001 or so. In 2012, I took a brief look at Perl 6 just to see what it was all about, and wrote a simple blog entry describing some of the basic changes between P5 and P6. I promptly walked away from the language until a week ago.

Over the course of the last week, I decided that I want to go full-out and really learn the language. My goal was to port my File::Edit::Portable P5 module to P6. This module saves record separators from a file, then when writing back, it re-uses the saved line endings. So if you open a Windows file on a Unix system, it'll re-write the file with the original Windows line endings.

I began reading an intro, which led me to numerous pieces of the official documentation.

This is a paper written in Russian on building docker images with sparrow - https://habrahabr.ru/post/302278/

So in today's Moose pen I am going to stick to the testing tree and have a look at my brand new 20_load_dad.t file in my brand new database-accessor repository

Now in past test cases like this, I did a little creative coding and made up a fake test class for SQL and Mongo drivers that where used when I called this

my $fake_dbh = DBI::db->new();
ok(
    $address->retrieve( $fake_dbh, $result ) eq
      'SELECT  street, city, country FROM person  AS me',
    'SQL correct'
);

I know that smart match is considered experimental at best and is likely going away at worst, but I hate that! In what world is:

if( grep $_ eq $scalar, @array ) { }

Better than this?

if( $scalar ~~ @array ) { }

The former doesn’t even shortcut. Some will say that I should use any like this:

use List::MoreUtils qw/any/;
if( {$scalar eq $_} @array ) { }

But any damn fool can see that it’s 2 lines of code instead of 2 characters. It’s not more readable. It’s just foolish. Some parts of smart match suck and I get that. So throw out those cases, not smart match itself.

[From my blog.]

The long awaited new version of Dancer2 is finally on its way to CPAN mirror near you!

Why did it take so long, what's changed, and why the big bump in version?

HI ! https://sparrowhub.org/ site updated! A various changes of index page:

• welcome text distilled to make it sparrow usage more clear and understandable
• a look-and-feel screenshots added
• a links to tutorials, documentation pages and papers added
• a new motto proposed ))) - "Sparrow - Reusable automation scripts" !

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Alexey