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META.yml and Building RPMs
February 10, 2010 – 1:03 PM
An email has flooded in. It was in response to my piece about Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions and it was from Andreas Koenig. Andreas runs PAUSE, which is the service CPAN authors use to upload stuff to CPAN, so...
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Useful RPM Stuff
February 9, 2010 – 10:43 AM
I forgot to mention this yesterday. I've set up a github project (see http://github.com/davorg/rpm_stuff) where I'll dump bits and pieces that I'm writing to make my RPM-building life easier.The first utility I've uploaded there is called can_rpmbuild. You pass it...
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Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions
February 8, 2010 – 1:01 PM
Regular readers will know that in the past I've shown some interest in building RPMs from CPAN distributions. It's been a while since I did much work in this area (although I do still release the occasional module to my...
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Perl Web Server
January 22, 2010 – 9:10 AM
Coming a little late to this game, but I understand there are some concerns in the Perl community that the phrase "Perl Web Server" doesn't find the best site when you search for it in Google. I'm happy to add...
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Important SpamAssassin Update
January 2, 2010 – 2:23 PM
Do you run SpamAssassin to remove spam from your mailbox? Have you noticed a fall in the amount of mail you've received in the last couple of days? I mean all mail, not just spam.You might well be falling foul...
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Perlanet Improvements
December 15, 2009 – 8:40 AM
I can be a bit of a lazy open source author at times. I love it when someone improves my code and then just emails me patches. I love it even more now that I'm using Github so that people...
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Perlanet Update
October 12, 2009 – 9:35 AM
Maybe it's just me, but when I know that people are using my code it galvanises me into improving it. Following the discovery that people were actually using Perlanet, I've made quite a few releases over the last week or...
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This Makes Me Happy
October 3, 2009 – 9:06 PM
I like it when my software is used to do interesting and useful stuff.Alex Kapranoff has built PlanetPerl.ru to aggregate blogs about Perl in Russian. He has used a patched version of my module Perlanet. I'll be taking a close...
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Moose or No Moose
September 1, 2009 – 12:47 PM
I've known about Moose for some time.The first time I talked about it in a training course was at the Teach-In back in the summer of 2007. It's been part of my training courses ever since.But even though I was...
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Net::Twitter and Iranian Elections
June 22, 2009 – 2:50 PM
Over the last few days I've seen a large number of tweets saying that the Perl module Net::Twitter is being used to post pro-government propaganda from Iran. If it's true, this is almost certainly a reaction to the large number...
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