Perl Hacks

Category: CPAN

  • This Makes Me Happy

    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 look at Alex’s patches to see what I should bring back into the CPAN…

  • Moose or No Moose

    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 telling people about Moose in my training courses, I wasn’t really making use of…

  • Net::Twitter and Iranian Elections

    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 of people who are using Twitter to get around the Iranian government’s censorship. It’s disappointing,…

  • New CPAN Releases

    I haven’t been particularly prolific in releasing new versions of my CPAN modules recently. But over the last couple of days I finally got my act together and release new versions of three modules. Array::Compare Number::Fraction Perlanet In all three cases, I’ve fixed pretty obscure bugs, added minor functionality or fixed the documenation. There’s nothing…

  • Joining the Github Massive

    I got tired of hosting my own Subversion repostories and having to deal with setting up access for anyone who wanted to work on my CPAN code (ok, honestly, that was two people in the last five years!) So I’ve moved all of my CPAN modules (and a few other random bits and pieces to…