I wish someone saw it as a CPAN challenge, took overt the maintenance of the module and made it easy to install it.
Well it seems somehow I always have great luck (not sure if it is good or bad) when getting a new computer and then loading Mojolicious on it.
So twice before this has happened to me, I set it up with all my dev software, a few flavors of perl, Padre and so on. Then I add start to port over some of my web apps then I try to run them and sure enough Mojolicous gives me great grief.
It seems I have an uncanny knack to update or break in a new box just as a new n.0 version of Mojolicious comes out (this time it is 6.0, I might of actually been one of the first to download it). Well at least I am savvy enough not to update the Mojo on my production boxes as quickly, so there is no real loss money wise just some frustration.
In brief...
Catalyst have agreed to host us on March 10th.
Broadbean have asked to have us on April 14th.
SiteSuite have agreed to host on the 14th of May.
Dates beyond that are up for grabs, and speakers are welcomed for any and all meetings.
Help promote by printing and hanging either the A3 or A4 poster around your workplace, university, college, local hang outs etc. (ask for permission first!)
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Static site generators are popular these days. For small sites, the ability to quickly author content using simple tools is key. The ability to use lower-cost (even free) hosting, often without any dynamic capabilities, is good for trying to maintain a budget. For larger sites, the ability to serve content quickly and cheaply is beneficial, and since most pages are read far more often than they are written, generating a full web page to store on the filesystem can improve performance (and lower costs).
For me, I like the convenience of using Github Pages to host project-oriented websites. The project itself is already on Github, so why not keep the website closely tied to it so it doesn't get out-of-date? For an organization like the Chicago Perl Mongers, Github can even host custom domains, allowing easy collaboration on websites.
It's through the Chicago.PM website that I was introduced to Octopress, a blogging engine built on Jekyll. It's through using Octopress that I decided to write my own static site generator, Statocles.
Since I got no answer from modules@perl.org I take the liberty to ask here.
PAUSE interface disceased the request for ownership of a new package, fine.
Now I uploaded two new packages and systematically got: Failed: PAUSE indexer report.
Why ?
Sorry if I made a so stuuuupid mistake that is too big so I have not seen it!
Example on a distribution for which I have always been the single unique uploader:
A couple of recent events, and a long running conversation, have set me to thinking about all the companies who contribute to the world of Perl. When I say contribute I mean any, or multiple of the following:
When it comes to us talking about people who contribute to the world of Perl it can be real easy to just mention those most visible[2] as being 'paid up' or 'most contributory' participants. This is not done to disregard the others who do participate and promote but out of a lack of understanding.
So I want to change that.
We are very proud to announce a Perl 6 Hackathon with Larry Wall as part of the Swiss Perl Workshop 2015 by end of August.
Larry already confirmed to come and it is a great honor for us to host him.
It's christmas time ;-)Larry has announced that the Perl 6 Developers will attempt to make a development release of Version 1.0 of Perl 6.0 in time for his 61st Birthday this year and a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015.
This will be one of the last hackathons before September, 27.
Since this is a community event we are searching for sponsors who are willing to support this extraordinary event at Flörli in the lovely city of Olten, where the Swiss Perl Workshop 2014 took place as well.
Feel free to contact us in case you have any questions.
The idea of the module is to allow Role users to import a role that defines a method that is already defined in the current package/object in a strict fashion. If the user declares that method will be overridden, it will work, if it doesn't, then an exception will be raised.
It was great to notice Ovid maintains a TODO list. It is not very clear what each item means, but I tried to ask him and understand. And as far as I could find, the first item of the TODO list seemed easy to implement. In fact, too easy. This Pull Request, as far as I can tell, could do the trick. But I lack knowledge on creating a test case.
So, in order to close this month's assignment, I am asking for comments, suggestions and any kind of constructive help on testing and fixing this pull request.
I am interested in getting these modules under good maintenance again:
I am happy to adopt these modules in the event that the original authors are unable or unwilling to continue maintaining them. I have what I think is a pretty good record in adopting modules while maintaining backwards compatibility and the original author’s intent. Examples include Alien::LibYAML, Mojolicious::Plugin::TtRenderer, PkgConfig, String::Template, Test::Fixme.
I am sorry to report that the Perl Foundation will not be participating in this year's Google Summer of Code. A number of stumbling blocks were created the most important being the failure in accurately planning workload for which I take full responsibility.[1]
I have spoken with Duke and Paul who performed magnificently for me, as always, and our plan going forwards is to move the planning and preparation to a rolling event. This means that we will start gathering more ideas, volunteers and approaching students now in preparation for 2016.
So although we have failed to get onto the programme in 2015, we can perhaps make a stronger effort for next year and subsequent years.
I would like to thank all those people who took the time and effort to help out with this year's attempt and to ask them not to get too downhearted as we will be using their hard work to guarantee success in the future.
[1] This year we were struck by a lot of timing issues and some problems with the wiki which meant re-doing the whole of the wiki.
eMortgage Logic, an Assurant Company, is looking for Senior Perl Web Application Developers. Our offices are located in North Richland Hills (Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex) AND we are open to remote positions for the right candidate.
We want your experiences and talent to influence our architecture and our team. We’ve got a wide variety of projects to keep work interesting and fun, ranging from the epitome of legacy apps to self-contained services running on the latest and greatest of Modern Perl. Having an appreciation for the evolution of the Perl web development community will be your greatest asset in modernizing and growing our stack together with us.
If any of the below practices or technologies make you excited, apply at http://jobs.assurant.com/dallas/information-technology/jobid7063768-lead-software-engineer-jobs and come aboard – let’s have fun! :)
P.S. Like contributing to CPAN? We support open source!
Next week I will be returning once again to beautiful Oslo, for a visit brim-full of all things Perlish.
For a start, I'm running two public classes on Wednesday March 4 and Thursday March 5,
in conjunction with Oslo.pm and Redpill Linpro.
On Wednesday, I'll be teaching the follow-up to my Perl Best Practices class (which we ran in Oslo several years ago). In this new course, Perl Even-Better Practices, I'm revisiting the guidelines that I first devised nearly ten years ago now, updating my advice and suggestions to reflect the huge number of changes both in Perl itself, and in the CPAN ecosystem, during the intervening decade. I'll be demonstrating and explaining 50 new guidelines, designed to make your Perl code even cleaner, safer, and faster.
Last week, we organized a charity party. It was more like a contest, or a show, in which 10 teams participated. Each team was supposed to perform a show on their choice: dance, music, or even a play. We also had a judge of 5 people to grade performances. These people were not the only ones to decide who wins the night, though. There was going to be a public voting, that anyone can participate.
So I wrote a Perl script for the party. We picked an event keyword starting with a # character, and listened Twitter for tweets including that word. Then, we had different keywords for each team. Anyone who wanted to cast their vote would just tweet with event keyword + team keyword, and that would be it.
Image: People asking their followers to vote for their teams
Hi everyone,
It's been a little while since we had a release. We took longer this time because this release provides a few major improvements we wanted to mature.
With 13 contributors and 23 tickets closed, I'd like to present Dancer2 0.159000.
Strawberry Perl 5.20.2.1 is available at http://strawberryperl.com
More details in Release Notes:
http://strawberryperl.com/release-notes/5.20.2.1-32bit.html
http://strawberryperl.com/release-notes/5.20.2.1-64bit.html
I would like to thank our sponsor Enlightened Perl Organisation for resources provided to our project.
Since it is not possible to write p5p criticism to the mailing list, I'll have to do it in my blog. @p5p: think over your guidelines. I don't believe that stuff like that needs to be blogged.
DaveM now introduced a new OP_SIGNATURE which assigns run-time args according to the compiled signature.
I’m pleased to announce the release of AWS::SNS::Verify. If you’re using Amazon Simple Notification Service then you need a way to verify the authenticity of messages coming from SNS. This module handles that easily for you.
[From my blog.]
I haven't updated about Veure in a while and though this post isn't really about Veure, per se, I'll use some code from it to illustrate a "thin controller."
There's a lot of confusion about the thin controller/fat model advice which gets passed around. In fact, I've seen some developers get upset about the idea, claiming that it's the model which should be as thin as possible. I'll explain what's really going on and give some real-world examples, using code from Veure.
Like most of you, I prefer MetaCPAN over CPAN. The biggest issue I had was any google search and older blog posts all linked directly to CPAN.
I found 'MetaCPAN Helper' on the Chrome Web Store however using it caused google to pop up a page about me being redirected whenever I clicked on a CPAN link costing me a few extra seconds to get where I wanted to go. Like many of you I thought this was unacceptable so a little while back I created my own extension that does not have this issue.
What the extension does is rewrite all search.cpan.org url's to search.mcpan.org without any tracking, annoying popups, or redirect pages.
Hopefully this will help some of you out. If you have any issues or features you would like to add you can do so at: https://github.com/bvierra/chrome-metacpanredirect/issues or send me a pull request.
Source Code is available at: https://github.com/bvierra/chrome-metacpanredirect
Extension is available at: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meta-cpan-redirect/blakeebdldmplhhegjofiaidnijmiphj
blogs.perl.org is great in that it's a stream of blog posts around a specific technology. Since I, like many of you, blog about other technologies too, I'd like to learn from you about other conversation streams. For me personally, the list of topics include:
I'll add what little knowledge I have on the topic:
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