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I uploaded File::Finder to the CPAN more than a decade ago. I was using it for a project today, and found a bug that has been in there in the beginning. I forgot to localize $_ in ->contains, which clobbered File::Find's $_, used by just about everything else.

I couldn't even remember where I had put the git repo for the distro source, and once I found that, I couldn't remember how to build and test modules.

I'm getting old.

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See also github issue #294

I just released 0.30_1 of Net::Amazon::EC2 to CPAN. This test release contains support for AWS4 signatures. It is based on a pseudonymous patch on this RT ticket but I reworked it to support both v2 and v4 signatures because I know some of the people who use this module connect with Eucalyptus or other AWS-compatible-ish APIs which may not fully support v4 yet.

So if you've been itching to get stuff done with EC2 in the eu-central-1 region (which AFAIK only accepts v4 requests), please give this test release a spin. I plan to release it as 0.31 after a couple of weeks if no show stopper(s) pop up.

Right between YAPC::Asia (Tokio, 20-22 Aug) and YAPC::EU (Granada, 2-4 Sept) you have the opportunity to attend another Perl event, the Swiss Perl Workshop 2015.

Day One
Thursday, 27 August
Perl 6 Hackathon
(Plus Dinner for Hackers)

Day Two
Friday, 28 August
Keynotes and Talks, Perl 6 Hackathon
(Plus Attendees' Dinner)

Day Three
Saturday, 29 August 2015
Workshops, Perl 6 Hackathon
(Plus "Cleaning the House Party")

Buy your ticket soon.

Also attending: Larry and some celebrities from the Perl6 core team. More to be announced soon.

Thank you, sponsors (and yeah, we urgently need more!):

This year I attended my fourth YAPC.  As always, here are my thoughts.  This time around, let’s start with ...

THINGS I LEARNED AT YAPC:

Ever seince I started using a Chromebook I have been interested in the concept of cloud-based IDEs for development. I am disappointed with Codenvy.com's lack of Perl support in their runtime containers and IDE, but it's technically possible to develop Perl apps on their platform.

I recently heard about Koding.com. I signed up and was delighted to discover native Perl support in both their default runtime container and IDE; with support for syntax highlighting and code completion. I cloned an existing Git repository, and I felt almost like I was working in a normal linux environment (albeit, in the cloud from a web browser).

If you don't mind using my referral (free RAM upgrades for me)...
https://koding.com/R/zjtzjt

If you're familiar with Dancer2 (my favorite Perl web framework to date), you know how amazingly easy it is to develop self-describing routes for your web application.

Let's say you have a Dancer2 app that allows your users to manage their phone numbers in a 1:X relationship. You might want to expose a route like...

post '/user/:user_id/phone_numbers/new' => sub {
    my $user_id = param 'user_id';
    # Do some stuff
};

... to add a new number to their profile. Let's also assume you have a route upstream that prohibits users from accessing routes associated with other users:

I attended Perl MiniConf last saturday and learned a great deal. I have had a pause account since the NYC Perl Hackathon 2015 event ( May 2nd 2015 ) and because of this I decided to take brian d foy's "Become a CPAN author in 3 hours" training. It was a very smooth and eye opening experience ( I was expecting a CPAN Module upload to be a bit more complicated).

Here's a list of things I took from brian's training:

Hi everyone,

I recently attended Miniconf in New York at which I decided to host a hackathon for my current hobby project, Mojo::Snoo - a Mojo wrapper for the reddit API.

Some hackathon attendees were nice enough to contribute code and give me some great ideas for future development. So, I’d like to briefly mention some changes introduced in the v0.10 release.

Firstly, let’s get one thing out of the way:

What the #$%! is Snoo?

Snoo is the name of reddit’s alien mascot. You know, the white alien at the top of reddit.com:

Not to be confused with “snu-snu” from Futurama.

According to reddit’s most recent license changes, reddit API wrappers cannot contain the word “reddit”.

Thus, Mojo::Snoo was born.

New features and changes

Moving on - I’d like to summarize some changes made recently and share some quick examples:

• ojo::Snoo

The web conference software that the Perl community uses mostly (Act) has a nice feature that lets registered users to mark their favourite talks. You just have to choose a talk from the list and then add it to your favourites.

This feature has several benefits that may seem obvious but are important anyway:

• It helps you build your personal schedule.
• It helps speakers see the expectation that their talks raise (see The Intersection of Code and Art and Great Tools Heavily Used In Japan, You Don't Know, for instance).
• It helps organizers build the schedule and allocate the right room for each talk.
• And finally it buils a list of the top favourited talks for everyone to see.

Thus, please help make YAPC Europe in Granada a big success and choose your favourite talks. Thanks!

The after-story about the Perl Golf contest, which took place during the two-day YAPC::Russia conferece in Moscow

Perl Golf is a contest, where participants solve the task with the shortest Perl programme possible. This year's Golf rules were announced by Vadim Pushtaev right after the conference start.

You can find a formal desciption and all the received solutions in the YAPC_Russia_2015_perl_golf GitHub repository.

So I just went to investigate switching from perlbrew to plenv.

This has failed before, because I run an old and grungy installation of Perl where I didn’t set up a local lib and just installed whatever without keeping records of which installed modules I need and which are just junk I tried for a few minutes. Unless I carry forward all that junk, I can’t switch perls without breaking all my local scripts – and I have better things to do.

Eventually I want to fix this situation, but no today on which it comes up has been the day for it so far.

Still, I do want to upgrade to 5.22 now that it’s out, and I’ve been wanting to switch to plenv for a while. What to do?

Uhm… *looks around*
ln -s ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.1 .plenv/versions/5.16.1
La la la… *walks away*

Yup, plenv global 5.16.1 is fine with that and a plenv rehash later, it works.

I threw out the rest of perlbrew, just kept the directory tree for the linked perl installation, and now I happily run this bastard/cuckoo setup. Teehee.

Now for installing 5.22 and making all my stuff work with it…

Here’s a little trick I’ve been using for a while to help ensure that a large sprawling Catalyst application always generates valid HTML. The idea is to unit test all your templates: the trick is to make it really easy with a helper class:

Strawberry Perl 5.22.0.1 is available at http://strawberryperl.com

More details in Release Notes:
http://strawberryperl.com/release-notes/5.22.0.1-32bit.html
http://strawberryperl.com/release-notes/5.22.0.1-64bit.html

I would like to thank our sponsor Enlightened Perl Organisation for resources provided to our project.

Hi everyone,

Long time no blog. I posted on reddit about my new module, Mojo::Snoo. I'm shooting for a funky Perl wrapper around the reddit API. Right now, I'm the only one using it (I think), but would like that to change.

So...feedback welcome! Install, break, complain, etc.

Oh, and I will be hosting a hackathon at Miniconf this weekend in NYC. So, feel free to say hi and help me with some development.

Links:
http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/38eca1/feedback_welcome_mojosnoo/
https://github.com/aggrolite/Mojo-Snoo
https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo::Snoo

I wonder, have you or the company where you work ever used it? Would your company be ready to offer bounties for fixing specific issues in a CPAN module or even in core perl? (bugs or new features alike.)

Would such bounties be a better way for TPF to spend their grant-money?

I thought I would share a little trick I use to get these three complex and idiosyncratic frameworks to play nice with each other.

Catalyst and HTML::FormFu are a powerful combination that allows you to tie the form displayed by your view to the form processed by your controller. This direct link means: 1) your field names in your generated HTML will always match the field names used in form processing, 2) default and redisplay field values set by your controller will always match up with the values displayed by the view, and 3) any constraint or validation issues detected by the form processing logic in your controller can be directly associated with the fields displayed by your view. Without this link, keeping a form defined in our view in sync with the form defined by our controller is a large source of potential bugs.

In this presentation that I gave at MadMongers last month, I show you how to use AngularJS as a front-end to your Perl backends. Presentation files available as well.

[From my blog.]

(Wow, has it really been almost 6 months since I last posted here?  Man, I’m slacking ...)

A while back, I decided to play with Dist::Zilla, and one of the first things I decided to do was make my own plugin bundle.¹  Now, if you don’t know what a plugin bundle is ... well, that’s a bit above and beyond the scope of this article.²  Suffice it to say that, if you want to get the most of out DZ, you want to create your own plugin bundle.  (And, if you don’t want to do that, then you probably want to be using something simpler than DZ, like Dist::Milla or Minilla or Zilla::Dist.)

So I created one a long time ago but then I never did much with it.  I personally don’t have enough CPAN distros to juggle to make spending a lot of time fiddling with DZ a priority.  But lately I’ve decided I want to get back into it.  So I started out by installing the latest version I’d put out on CPAN.

Well, trying to install it, anyway.

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