The Queen in Lewes
The Queen came to Lewes today.
Toby Inkster
Katie Morag; and Topsy and Tim
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.
Tree Fu Tom: no more David Tennant
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 Part Three: techniques
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 Part Two: Type::Tiny
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…
Acme-oop-ism Part One
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…
Planet Moose – September 2013
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…
Planet Moose – August 2013
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…
Introducing Moops
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…
Who’s relying on that CPAN release?
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…
Data::Dumper::GUI
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…
Type::Tiny – not just for attributes
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……
Thought for the day: Perl 5 is English; Perl 6 is Esperanto.
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…
Introducing Type::Tiny
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…
Introducing Platform
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…
Woolly & Tig Series 2
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.
Not using that any more…
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…
Pod to HTML
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…
Rebecca from Let’s Play
What are we playing today?
Smart jacket, scarf, revolver… that’s right, we’re playing gangsters!
Perl 10
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…
