With my open source work, I’ve historically taken an approach which relies more on integration testing than unit testing, but with some of my newer projects, I’ve tried adopting principles from $paidwork and applying them to my free software. This…
Let’s look at the XSPF playlist format. It’s a pretty simple XML-based file format.
Consider the following fairly simple class, which creates a lookup object for month names…
This is a variant of SemVer which mostly meets all its rules, except for releases prior to 0.2.0, where we bend them slightly. It is my intention to use this versioning system for all open source software I develop from…
Eagle-eyed watchers of CPAN may have noticed that I’ve recently been releasing Type::Tiny development releases with version numbers 1.999_XYZ. Type::Tiny v2 is intended to be compatible with Type::Tiny v1. If you’ve used Type::Tiny v1, you shouldn’t need to change…
Firstly, I’m not planning on breaking compatibility with Type::Params. The new API would live under a different namespace, such as Type::Params2. The API for Type::Params is currently: use feature ‘state’; use Type::Params qw( compile compile_named_oo ); use Types::Standard -types; sub…
Moose is great, but it does introduce a slight performance hit to your code. In the more than 15 years since it was first released, hardware improvements have made this less of a problem than it once was. Even…
The lighting in my bedroom uses Philips Hue bulbs — specifically, the coloured ones. Last night, I decided it would be nice to set the three lights in my bedroom to cycle slowly through a set of warm colours using…
For letting me know my test coverage has increased by 0.00006%. (Seriously it’s a pretty cool service though.)…
I don’t usually take part in the Perl Weekly Challenge but one of this week’s challenges caught my eye. I thought it could be a fun thing to attempt and decided to use Zydeco to help solve it. The problem…