Type::Tiny is a tiny (no non-core dependencies) framework for building type constraints. OK, probably not that exciting. How can I grab your attention? Rate WithMoose WithMooseAndTypeTiny WithMoose 8071/s — -25% WithMooseAndTypeTiny 10778/s 34% — The benchmark script is shown…
So, what’s the big idea? Perl projects have all manner of ways of declaring their dependencies. CPAN releases usually include a file called META.yml or META.json listing their dependencies (though Makefile.PL or Build.PL is also supposed to generate a…
Series 2 started yesterday. CBeebies seem to have kept that quiet.
They also stopped repeating episodes 1-15 of Old Jack’s Boat, and have started with episodes 16-25.
OK, so sometimes you decide you’re going to stop using some module X, maybe because something better has come along. Let’s say I want to track down all my CPAN modules that use Any::Moose because my goal is to port…
OK, so there were already a thousand solutions for converting pod to HTML, but I wasn’t especially happy with any of them. Things I wanted were: Clean-looking XHTML and/or HTML5 output. Unicode support. ☻ Good syntax highlighting for Perl…
What are we playing today?
Smart jacket, scarf, revolver… that’s right, we’re playing gangsters!
This is my take on the version debate. Bear in mind that I’m not a p5p nor a Perl 6 developer, so I don’t get a vote. I can still have an opinion though… Perl 6 represents the future of…
I recently blogged about Ask, my new(ish) module for interacting with users via STDIN/STDOUT, a GUI, or whatever means possible. Writing GUI code in Perl unfortunately requires you to compile non-core modules such as Gtk2, Wx or Tk. There is…
In many scripts, we need to prompt the end user for information – this could be a prompt for a file name, a selection from a list of options, or an answer to a yes/no question. The traditional approach to…
According to metacpan.org, MooX-ClassAttribute-0.001 was the first upload of 2013! Yay!…
