Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions

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 RPM repository. Over the weekend I was at FOSDEM and I attended Gabor’s talk on […]

FOSDEM

This weekend is the annual FOSDEM conference in Brussels. I really enjoy FOSDEM but, for reasons I don’t really understand, this will be the first time I’ve been since 2005. It will also be one of the rare occasions where I attend a conference without giving a talk – the organisers turned down my proposed […]

Important SpamAssassin Update

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 of this problem. The rules in the latest version of SpamAssassin available from CPAN […]

Perlanet Improvements

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 can just fork my code and send me pull requests. That happened over the weekend. […]