So one of the talks I had accepted to YAPC is on XML::Toolkit, and I thought I’d give a bit of a preview of what it is. XML::Toolkit was created for a project that required de-serializing XML in to Perl data, exposing that data to be edited, and then re-serializing it so a Flash client could read it. Because of assumptions made by the Flash scr... Read more 11 May 2009 - 1 minute read
What I’ve Learned about Perl Versions So in a discussion about the version numbers in MooseX::POE the following wisdom was imparted upon me: 14:35 <@lbr> DBIC had: $VERSION = '0.08010'; 14:35 <@rafl> just always quote version numbers 14:36 <@rafl> and don't make them shorter than a previous version 14:37 <@lbr> and peopl... Read more 08 May 2009 - less than 1 minute read
Yuval has been posting several entries about KiokuDB and I thought I’d give a chance to talk about how we had used for an application currently on sale in the iPhone store. Thumb-Rate is a social app that allows you to simply vote up or down on things in real life. It’s not a complicated, and the source code clocks in at 3791 lines of perl incl... Read more 01 May 2009 - 1 minute read
Right so the rumor is that Moose has a lot of dependencies. I mean according to cpantesters Moose has 24 different dependencies! (Note: that same site says that almost all of those dependencies have a nearly 100% test record, but we’re talking Quantity not Quality!). Let’s examine this a bit more: Here are the actual direct dependencies from Mo... Read more 01 May 2009 - 3 minute read
use.perl Fail Today I was reading a use.perl journal and ended up on the homepage and saw this: Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! FAIL. According to mst I need to hunt down rafael, davorg, grinder, brian d foy or pudge to see if I can be added to the list of people who are responsible for making sure that doesn’t happen. I suck at this kind of st... Read more 28 Apr 2009 - less than 1 minute read