I’m a big fan of Old Jack’s Boat in general — great actors; good stories; charming animation — but the Christmas episode is something special.
Death is rarely mentioned on CBeebies. There’s a Woolly & Tig episode where a horse Tig is fond of dies. Peter Rabbit lives under threat from Mr Todd, Tommy Brock, and […]
It happened! Mike the Knight’s dad makes an appearance in this year’s Christmas special. Sadly not voiced by Brian Blessed as I’d hoped, nor Tom Baker, but Alexander Armstrong. Though I do like him.
use v5.14; use strict; use warnings FATAL => ‘all’; our $days_until_christmas = 1 * map s([+] )( )gix &&printf( ‘%5s’ .’%-4s’ .’%s’,$_, substr(~~~~ reverse,!$^C) =~y[/(] [\\)]r,$/ ),my@ xmas= qw 1 +.- _(+” (_++: /+’ +(_/^ 1;1 ;1;…
Welcome to Planet Moose, a brief write up on what’s been happening in the world of Moose in the past month, for the benefit of those of you who don’t have their eyes permanently glued to the #moose IRC…
Travis-CI is a Really Useful Engine, but I’ve only enabled it for a handful of my GitHub repositories because navigating though GitHub’s settings to do so is a bit of a pain. Seemed like this should be scriptable though -…
Kavorka is a function signatures module, along the lines of Function::Parameters, Method::Signatures, and MooseX::Method::Signatures. Its features include: Named, positional and slurpy parameters Required and optional parameters Defaults for optional parameters Type constraints and value constraints Type coercions Return types Method…
Welcome to Planet Moose, a brief write up on what’s been happening in the world of Moose in the past month, for the benefit of those of you who don’t have their eyes permanently glued to the #moose IRC…
The Queen came to Lewes today.
This Sunday a new series based on the Katie Morag books will be starting. It looks like it should be good.
The Beeb will also be bringing us Topsy and Tim. Some of the books are fairly dull, but the kids seem to like them, so we’ll see how the TV show pans out.
The latest series of Tree Fu Tom doesn’t include David Tennant, but the new guy still manages to do a passable impression of Twigs.
I wonder if Tennant’s absence is temporary. Will he be back for a theoretical series 3?
Acme-oop-ism is about writing code that works in Moose, Mouse and Moo. We’ve already looked at how Type::Tiny has achieved this. Now I’m going to introduce you to some Acme-oop-ist techniques….
Acme-oop-ism is about writing code that works in Moose, Mouse and Moo. Type::Tiny was born of frustration with how MooX::Types::MooseLike handles “inflation”. Inflation is how Moo handles interacting with Moose. I’m simplifying here, but when Moo detects that Moose…
Ingy gave a talk on Acmeism at YAPC::NA. Acmeism is a simple, yet ambitious idea. Break down the barriers that exist in programming by publishing software modules that work in multiple different languages. (And use smarter tools so that…
Welcome to the second edition of Planet Moose, a brief write up on what’s been happening in the world of Moose this month, for the benefit of those of you who don’t have their eyes permanently glued to the…
Welcome to the first edition of Planet Moose, a brief write up on what’s been happening in the world of Moose this month, for the benefit of those of you who don’t have their eyes permanently glued to the…
Moops is sugar for writing object-oriented Perl. It provides similar syntax to MooseX::Declare and Stevan Little's p5-mop-redux. It's some glue between Moo, Type::Tiny, Function::Parameters and Try::Tiny, but for those occasions when you want the backing of a meta object…
Sometimes it’s useful to know who exactly is relying on your CPAN distribution – for example, if you’re planning an incompatible API change for a module, and wish to contact people using it to give them advance notice. MetaCPAN…
Everyone knows all that command-line stuff is for weirdo geeks, right? 😉 So let’s bring Data::Dumper kicking and screaming into the 21st century and give it a pretty GUI! Introducing Data::Dumper::GUI; a GUI for Data::Dumper. It allows you to view…
OK, so I’ve gotten back from the May Day parade, had some lunch, and now it’s time for me to write about Type::Tiny some more……
Esperanto may be a saner language than English in every way. But English is the language of Shakespeare, of Milton, of Byron, of Dylan Thomas; the language of Arthur Conan-Doyle and Agatha Christie; the language of Tolkien and C S…
