Christmas Eve Obfu
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;…
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Planet Moose – November 2013
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…
Enable Travis-CI for a Github repository from the command line
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 -…
Introducing Kavorka
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…
Planet Moose – October 2013
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…
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…
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…
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…
