Fedora and Centos CPAN RPMs

Today I’ve updated my spreadsheets of the CPAN modules that are available as RPMs from various repositories for Fedora and Centos. I see that in many cases the “official” repos are now more up to date than my own repo (which I originally set up because the official repos are sometimes out of date). This […]

Net::Songkick

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 that tracks users’ attendance at gigs. I’ve been tracking the gigs I’ve been going to […]

Learning About Traits

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 really needed to get to grips with. One such area is Moose’s support for Traits. […]

Perl Vogue

I’m at YAPC::EU in Pisa, so I’m too busy having fun to write a long blog post about my new project – Perl Vogue. But I thought you might be interested in the lightning talk that I used to announce it yesterday. Perl Vogue from Dave Cross More detail when I get back from Italy […]

Ironman and XML::Feed

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 XML::Feed (which is one of the modules that Perlanet uses to process the feeds […]