What Stops Me From Using Perl6 Today I have to confess mst asked me to step forward and make a comment about the Perl5 & Perl6. I suspect because I’m a prime example of a person who’s deeply involved in what masak calls the Perl5 story. This is because I’ve been bound up tightly with the Moose community for a while, and I’ve recently founde... Read more 16 Nov 2009 - 5 minute read
Accessors, what’s in it for Me So there has been some discussion recently on various places I almost never go to on the internet. That has bled over into #moose-dev, the developer channel for Moose. The argument came up apparently that there’s no point to an accessor that is just a glorified wrapper around hash key assignment. The basic assump... Read more 13 Nov 2009 - 1 minute read
Everybody Wants Some … CPAN So the twitters were all a … well twitter … with the People want CPAN :-) thread. This had some amazing synchronicity with the Perl talks we gave at Big Lamp Camp in Nashville this weekend. The main thrust of Stevan and Cory’s talks were “It’s the CPAN stupid.” However reading through the Python thread I’ve seen som... Read more 10 Nov 2009 - 4 minute read
Bread::Board So I’ve been working on Blawd some more this week, trying to clean up the code so I can get some of the TODOs out of the way. One of the big TODOs is to implement a configuration system. I had built the application organically much the way I have built many different applications over time. I had a master Blawd class that wired ev... Read more 03 Nov 2009 - 5 minute read
Perl Oasis 2010 So things are settled for 2010 Perl Oasis, I’m just waiting for instructions on what needs to be done to enable the website. The date is confirmed, January 16, 2010. The venue this year is the Four Points Sheraton Orlando, which is much closer to the action. A note on the special rate for the hotel: All reservations must be re... Read more 02 Nov 2009 - 1 minute read