Sawyer X

And as such, our mythical plate (from "a lot of stuff on my plate") is never to be completely cleaned, but only periodically.

So I've had a lot of stuff to deal with recently. This has created a lot of downtime for me. I've not written almost anything, and neither did I code much. I've maintained a half-present administrative role in Dancer, helping making some decisions. I'm fortunately blessed with a very positive community that really gives you strength, even (and especially) in down times and can take care of itself. I really want to thank the entire Dancer community for that.

Here's a short list of stuff I'm going to be working on soon, or at least wish to:

• Dancer's path resolution methods: We've had an entire mess with paths, since we're trying to be compatible with GNU/Linux, BSD, Windows and even (for some unknown reason) Cygwin. The path verification code done in PathTools (Path::Class) isn't very compatible and creates havoc with Windows and Cygwin. I'm going to make all paths unverified by default (with cleanups) and adding verification where needed. Later I might support Cygwin path cleanups more.


• MetaCPAN::API: I've started this module with the intention of providing myself and the community with a clean API to use with MetaCPAN. The MetaCPAN community is very friendly and helpful. They finalized, finished and released the beta API for a while now but I didn't get around to updating the module to use it. I won't use ElasticSearch though, but I'll explain that in a different post.


• GSoC: I haven't written much about our GSoC student: Carlos Ivan Sosa, and about our SoC experience. I intend to rectify that.


• Moose attributes exception trait: The Amazing Ovid (really, can't write it differently) has written about the problem with Moose doing the exception throwing for you in attribute validation. I think the solution is to let you control the exception (or no-exception) in your application. I want to write a trait for that. Not sure it's possible but I'll contact the Moose Cabal for that, which is yet another community I really like.


• Perl French Workshop: The French Perl Mongers are sponsoring me for the Perl French Workshop. Those guys are really awesome. I already know a few and I'm really excited to meet more. I'll also give 3 talks at the workshop! Can't wait!


• Getting back to writing: I used to write quite a bit, and noticed I've been too tired for that in the past few months (if not more) and I really do wish to get back to it. I wouldn't say I know much, but that I do have some experience to share. I made a lot of mistakes from which to learn, and mainly I have a lot of bitching to do. :)