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
Change Management is Hard So I’ve just release a new JSON::Any. Back in January when I made the last release, Marc Mims (the new maint for Net::Twitter) had a bug in JSON::Syck which Audrey decided not to fix since JSON::Syck is deprecated. This is fair, she’s the maintainer and is allowed to deprecate things when there are better alternatives o... Read more 02 Jul 2009 - 1 minute read
YAPC::NA 2009 - Slides Posted So YAPC::NA is over. I’ve mostly recovered from the Moose Flu that seems to have circulated around at it. I’ve posted my slides for both XML::Toolkit and the EPO-EC talks. The first went “okay”, while I’d been doing a lot of work with it the weeks before YAPC I think that adding slides to the talk sort of brought do... Read more 29 Jun 2009 - less than 1 minute read
YAPC::NA I’m off to YAPC tomorrow. I’m giving two talks on Tuesday and I haven’t yet finished my slides (though I do think I have some clue what I’m gonna talk about). This is the first time in six years I’ve spoken at something as large as a YAPC and I’m starting to feel a little nervous. Unlike six years ago however this time I’m expecting to ... Read more 21 Jun 2009 - less than 1 minute read
FAIL 100 99 I’ve just released XML::NamespaceSupport 1.10, with fixes to it’s build system. I’ve had it soaking as a dev release for the last week or two, ever since I noticed it was #6 on Adam Kennedy’s Fail 100. I had to chase down Robin Berjon and get him to delegate co-maint, but it was a simple enough once that happened. One down, 99 to go. Read more 12 Jun 2009 - less than 1 minute read