About a year ago, I dabbled briefly with Travis CI. I even gave a talk about my experiences. The plan was that I would start to use it for all of my code. But real life intervened and I never got round to getting any further with that project. This weekend, I finally made some […]
Over the years I’ve set up a few mailing lists for the discussion of various projects I’ve been involved with. There’s always an expectation that mailing lists will flourish without much input from me. But it never works out like that. The truth is that most mailing lists just quietly die. And, in many cases, […]
I was asked to write a guest post for the Built In Perl blog. I wrote something about how I built my site, TwittElection, for the recent UK general election. In the UK we have just had a general election. Over the last few weeks many web sites have sprung up to share information about […]
It’s been a while since I’ve run a training course alongside a YAPC. By my calculations, the last time was Riga in 2011. But I’ve been talking to the organisers of this year’s conference and we have plan. I’m going to be running a one-day introductory course on DBIx::Class before the conference (I think it’ll […]
I’ve had this discussion several times recently, so I thought it was worth writing a blog post so that I have somewhere to point people the next time it comes up. Using ampersands on subroutine calls (&my_sub or &my_sub(…)) is never necessary and can have potentially surprising side-effects. It should, therefore, never be used and […]
