In which we learn how a series of cockups can reinforce lessons about money, and potentially provide some new infrastructure for Perl5 Core The Background If you were at YAPC::NA this past summer1, you may have attended my talk about the lessons I’ve learned from starting and running my company Tamarou. One of the points I emphasized in the ta... Read more 25 Sep 2012 - 5 minute read
So last night I dropped a new module on to the CPAN. Normally this would be a cause for celebration, except it turns out I broke Moose. A Date with Destiny If you don’t know local::lib, you should. I’ve been using it on a per-project level using John Napiorkowski’s App::local::lib::helper. This works out incredibly well for those nasty interna... Read more 03 Apr 2012 - 3 minute read
So there has been a recent post that stirred up some commentary. The basic gist is that the author decided to leave Perl because he got tired of living with the constant scolding over ‘use strict’. Something that (as he points out in an update) even Mark Jason Dominus has commented on1. I agree with him. Not about use strict, I actually agree w... Read more 13 Feb 2012 - 3 minute read
How to organize a conference in your home town, and then not attend! So last weekend (January 14th specifically) was the 4th Orlando Perl Workshop aka “Perl Oasis”. From the feedback I’ve seen people generally had an excellent time. Which is good because I missed most of it. Friday Night Lights Friday I taught the Moose course to four excelle... Read more 20 Jan 2012 - 4 minute read
There is this thread on Reddit (and StackOverflow) about what’s the coolest thing you can pull off in 10 lines of code. Obviously the first question people have is how do you define a “line”, cause unless you have significant whitespace issues you can do a lot on a single line. If you limit yourself to a line is equal to a single idea or step i... Read more 31 Dec 2011 - 6 minute read