Category Archives: CPAN

Net::Songkick

August 25, 2010 – 9:22 PM
Sometimes it's good to just take a new idea and hack on it for a couple of hours to see what happens. That's what I've done this evening. I've been using Songkick for a while. Songkick is a web site... Read More »
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Learning About Traits

August 23, 2010 – 9:13 AM
I've been teaching basic Moose in my training courses for several years now. And, as I've mentioned before, I've been slowly converting some of my CPAN modules to use Moose. But there are still bits of Moose that I haven't... Read More »
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Ironman and XML::Feed

April 26, 2010 – 9:02 AM
Sam Graham complains that since the Ironman feed switched to using Perlanet, the entries have been "mangled". By that he means that in some cases any HTML in feed entries is lost.I think they're running up against this bug in... Read More »
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More RPM Stuff

April 25, 2010 – 5:02 PM
It's been a while since I wrote anything here. if anyone is keeping score I've probably failed the Iron Man challenge of posting something every ten days.Don't have much to add here either but I thought some of you might... Read More »
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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... Read More »
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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... Read More »
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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... Read More »
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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... Read More »
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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... Read More »
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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... Read More »
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