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… Continue reading Ironman and XML::Feed
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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.… Continue reading Perlanet Improvements
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Perlanet Update
Maybe it’s just me, but when I know that people are using my code it galvanises me into improving it. Following the discovery that people were actually using Perlanet, I’ve made quite a few releases over the last week or so. I thought people might be interested in what I’ve been doing. Release 0.30 was… Continue reading Perlanet Update
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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… Continue reading This Makes Me Happy
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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… Continue reading New CPAN Releases