Blatant Begging So the time has come where I scurry and do some last minute organization for Perl Oasis. Last year was very small because I wasn’t very organized in advertising it, and this year I hope to do better but the first hurdle is fund raising. Last year we had amazing support from HD Publishing Group a local Perl company. They simply ca... Read more 25 Aug 2009 - 1 minute read
Version Numbers and Deprecation Policies A few days mst pointed out to me the Mojo release notes. I don’t pay attention to the project since these days I have my plate full with Moose, Catalyst, and KiokuDB as well as starting a small business to be paying attention to yet another wheel. My comment was “wow”. To quote the release notes 0.99125... Read more 24 Aug 2009 - 4 minute read
Sketchy Code Quite often when I’m developing with a new framework or toolset I find it easy to write a small test script to make sure I understand the feature I’m working with. They’re sort of like sketches artists do while working on a piece or noodling an idea, or improve performances by actors trying to flesh out a character. Some code I pos... Read more 30 Jul 2009 - 2 minute read
The Role of Inheritance Ovid linked to a blog post about the evil’s of inheritance. The post makes an excellent case for the dangers of inheritance for behavioral composition. However I knew he was running into a problem when his first example still used inheritance to denote Type polymorphism. That’s ultimately my problem with his “solution” to... Read more 19 Jul 2009 - 3 minute read
Sometimes Nothing is a Good Default So I know this has come up before but I can’t see where I’ve mentioned it and stevan just asked me to blog about it. One of the frequently requested features in Moose is for attributes to default to having some kind of accessor either is => 'rw' or is => 'ro' depending on the preference of whomever is ma... Read more 09 Jul 2009 - 3 minute read