John Napiorkowski’s Perl Development Blog

How Are You Using $c->forward (or qw/go visit detach etc/)?

2009-11-12T14:23:53Z

While trying to finish up my thoughts of the followup to "Does Anyone Else Hate the Stash?" one issue that I'm been grappling with is the relationship between using the stash as secondary global namespace and the way I've seen people use the stash...

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Darkpan => CPAN Service (part two)

2009-11-03T16:01:52Z

A few months ago, when discussing how to support the 'darkpan' (what Perl programmers call the vast body of perl code floating around the internet or in private companies that we know nothing about) I suggested leveraging the vast CPAN distributio...

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Would You Find this Moose Role Useful? (Part Two)

2009-11-02T20:44:51Z

Well Perl Ironman Readers, Based on the public and private comments from the previous blog I decided to go ahead and write something (I hope) cpan worthy. It should show up shortly over here but until then you can check it out on github (or clon...

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Would You Find this Moose Role Useful?

2009-10-28T02:03:08Z

I find as part of my normal course of writing perl moose based code, I do the following quite often: Basically I tend to use the above with a core application class that is delegating work to several other classes. In the above case, my general...

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The Diffusion of Technical Knowledge and the Crisis of the Technology Worker

2009-10-06T01:57:57Z

One of the things that I personally find exciting about working in IT is how quickly the field grows and changes. Seemingly overnight vast bodies of knowledge and hard earned abilities can be supplanted. Five years ago, the job that took half the ...

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Does Anyone Else Hate the Stash?

2009-09-29T13:48:09Z

When I first started using Perl Catalyst for web application development I felt appalled by how sloppy it seemed to pass important application data around in a secondary global namespace, the Catalyst Stash. I guess it's context global, but it st...

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First build of 5.10.1 and local::lib

2009-09-28T15:48:24Z

The latest Perl localizes very nicely. Following these very simple instructions I was able to install it into my home directory. I then modified my .bash_profile to search the local perl bin area: [jnapiorkowski@perlbuilder ~]$ cat .bash_profil...

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Higher Order Perl Book PDF Version, and other Free Perl Books

2009-09-09T14:31:45Z

I know this has been reported elsewhere, but the very excellent, "Higher Order Perl", is available as a free download. This is definitely worth buying if you can spare the cash, or can convince your boss to pay for it. However if you can't, or i...

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RFC: Catalyst::TraitFor::Model::DBIC::Schema::AutoDeploy?

2009-09-08T15:15:06Z

One of my personal goals for this year is to reduce some of the boilerplate code I have to write in order to get working with my applications. This effort to ease Perl Programming is inspired by great projects like Moose, which really allows me t...

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Easy FUSE Filesystems

2009-08-25T13:11:05Z

FUSE is an excellent system for mounting various types of storage devices to the filesystem in user runmode time. Now, Perl Programming makes it trivial to create and mount new storage types using this framework. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moos...

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