Last night, I uploaded a new version of Ogg::Vorbis::Header – a CPAN module that hasn’t been updated since 2003 and which I strongly suspect no-one at all uses any more. You might be interested to hear what I did or why I did it. About a year ago, I wrote about the dashboard I had […]
I run my own email server. It uses QMail. I realise there are at least two problems there – all of the cool kids have been using Gmail for their email since approximately forever, and who the hell uses QMail anyway? Like most of these situations, it’s that way for historical reasons. And, of course, […]
Last July I wrote a post threatening to cull some of my unused CPAN modules. Some people made sensible comments and I never got round to removing the modules (and I’m no longer planning to) but I marked the modules in question as “HANDOFF” and waited for the rush of volunteers. As predicted in my […]
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you probably already know that I have an interest in building RPMs of CPAN modules. I run a small RPM repository where I make available all of the RPMs that I have built for myself. These will either be modules that aren’t available in other RPM […]
Almost every day on the Perl groups on LinkedIn (or Facebook, or StackOverflow, or somewhere like that) I see a question that includes the restriction “I do not want to use any modules”. There was one on LinkedIn yesterday. He wanted to create a MIME message to pass to sendmail, but he didn’t want to install […]
