I Did it the “Right” Way Okay the last thing that came up in Dave Cross’s now infamous Moose or No Moose post. This post comes last because I noticed the question last but it also took the longest to write. The questions is about the idea that is Moose the One True Way. To quote the original Poster: Define "do OO right". Any answer containing ... Read more 07 Sep 2009 - 12 minute read
Ring Ring Ring Ring Perl Phone! So I just got my first Perl script running on my Phone. I have a T-Mobile G1 and I installed the Android Scripting Environment 0.11-Alpha which allows you to install a copy of Perl5 (as of this writing 5.10.0) on your phone. It then sets up an RPC enviroment giving you access to the native Android APIs via a very ... Read more 05 Sep 2009 - less than 1 minute read
In the Room In the Room, originally uploaded by sartak. Shawn Moore found the building my Blog apparently lives in. In Tokyo of all places. One day I shall have to visit my blog! Read more 05 Sep 2009 - less than 1 minute read
Command Line Moose or Knowing what You Don’t know. In one of the comments on Dave Cross’s hotly debated “Moose or No Moose” post someone said: To those who claim Moose is usable in command-line commands, please can you get Moose developers to stop saying otherwise, cos it's hard not to take their claims seriously. I’m a core Moose developer.... Read more 02 Sep 2009 - 2 minute read
Take arms against a sea of troubles So Dave Cross has started injecting Moose Koolaid into his CPAN modules and got smacked by Adam Kennedy for injecting Moose into something with a ton of downstream dependencies. Or at least it used to have a ton of downstream deps, the module in question, Test::Warn (as Adam rightly points out) has moved on. ... Read more 01 Sep 2009 - 1 minute read