Perl Module Monday: Growl::Tiny
I’m a fairly-new MacOS user. I’ve had this MacBook Pro since just a few days before this last OSCON, and I’m growing more and more fond of it by the day. So for this week’s PMM, I’m going to look at a...
View ArticlePerl Module Monday: Desktop::Notify
Boy am I slipping (again). Been a few weeks since I wrote at all, and on top of that I can’t seem to type AT ALL right now, so who knows how long it’ll take me to write this (and whether it actually...
View ArticlePerl Module Monday: Object::Tiny (and friends)
Seriously, I’m going to have to create a new tag with “module” in the plural form, at this rate. This week’s post started out just looking at one module, but as it happens there are three variant forms...
View ArticlePerl Module Monday: IMDB::Film
For this week’s PMM, I’m going to go with something a little more fun: the IMDB::Film module. Though, to be fair, I’ll be offering it up with some caveats and reservations. Still, I’m a huge fan of...
View ArticleNo PMM This Week
Alas, I didn’t get this done earlier in the day, and now I need to spend the remainder of my evening working on the first units in the Stanford on-line AI class. These materials were only just posted,...
View ArticlePerl Module Monday: HTTP::Tiny
I’m still deep in the Stanford AI class, so this will be a light-weight posting. And since it’s going to be light-weight anyway, I’ll cover a module in the *::Tiny namespace: HTTP::Tiny. HTTP::Tiny is...
View ArticleLooking Back, Looking Forward: 2011 & 2012
So here we are, starting yet another new year. Seems like I was just here, but when I look back at my archives I see that my only post in January of 2011 was for the 0.74 release of RPC-XML. So I...
View ArticlePerl Module Release: Test-AgainstSchema 0.100
MetaCPAN.org: https://metacpan.org/release/RJRAY/Test-AgainstSchema-0.100 Version: 0.100 Released: Monday January 16, 2012, 02:00:00 PM -0800 Changes: lib/Test/AgainstSchema.pm (added)...
View ArticlePerl Module Release: Image-Size 3.231
MetaCPAN.org: https://metacpan.org/release/RJRAY/Image-Size-3.231 Version: 3.231 Released: Wednesday May 23, 2012, 11:30:00 PM -0700 Changes: lib/Image/Size.pm Small change to swfmxsize for...
View ArticlePerl Module Release: RPC-XML 0.77
MetaCPAN.org: https://metacpan.org/release/RJRAY/RPC-XML-0.77 Version: 0.77 Released: Monday September 3, 2012, 12:00:00 PM -0700 Changes: t/15_serialize.t Fix a test failure on Windows. lib/RPC/XML.pm...
View ArticlePerl Module Release: RPC-XML 0.78
MetaCPAN.org: https://metacpan.org/release/RJRAY/RPC-XML-0.78 Version: 0.78 Released: Thursday February 6, 2014, 08:00:00 PM -0800 Changes: lib/RPC/XML.pm A patch to loop detection in smart_encode from...
View ArticleCPAN Testers and RPC-XML: Well, Crap
So I’m starting to break my drought on personal-project coding, and yesterday I cut a new release of RPC-XML, the first one since September of 2012. I’m pretty happy about this; besides the fact that I...
View ArticleCPAN Testers Follow-Up: Progress Is Made
Or, How I Learned It (Mostly) Wasn’t My Fault So, in my previous post I noted how my reward for getting back on the horse had been a slew of failure reports from the CPAN Testers service. This is a...
View ArticleTest Suites: To Critic or Not?
Over the holiday weekend, I spent a good amount of time cleaning up my RPC::XML test suites with regards to Perl::Critic. It wasn’t quick work, either: Much of the suite was written when RPC::XML was...
View ArticleDear LazyWeb: Good Key/Value Data Store for Perl?
I’m working on a web-based tool at my day job in which I will be caching a lot of data. Well, not a lot of data in the Facebook sense of “a lot”, but a non-trivial amount nonetheless. Currently, for...
View ArticleUnderstanding Encoding (Trying To, At Least)
Earlier this evening was a presentation at the San Francisco PM group, on “Unicode & Everything”. I wanted to go, but had a conflict so I had to miss it. Character encoding is an area I’m weak in,...
View ArticleSome Modules I’m Looking At Currently
Now that I’m writing (a little) more reliably in this blog, I hope to soon revive my “Module Monday” series. At the time I started doing it, it was fairly easy to come up with new modules to review, as...
View ArticleI Made a New Thing in Perl
(For now, I’m going to casually ignore the fact that it has been literally two years since my last blog posting. If this post heralds a return to regular blogging, I may address that in a future post.)...
View ArticleWell. That Was… Educational.
I got a great lesson recently in the dangers of making assumptions about other people’s code. One could almost call it an object lesson. (A really bad pun that will become more evident as you read...
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