John Napiorkowski’s Perl Development Blog

Database Design Woes ( or "Something Wicked This Way Comes")

2009-06-26T13:19:10Z

I wanted to drop in and explain my lengthy absence, especially given some interesting "part two" articles in my queue that several of you have emailed me hoping for an update. In particular there's a pending summary of all the feedback regarding ...

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Time to Rotate the Profile Pic?

2009-06-11T15:52:23Z

As I was researching a followup to my previous post and reading all your comments, as well as comments from reddit I can't help but notice what seems to be a distractingly large number of comments aimed at the very conservative Chinese outfit tha...

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Why All the Hate?

2009-06-04T16:30:00Z

Recently with all the renewed effort on the part of Perl programmers to be better public advocates of our language, I've noticed an uptick in counter productive and quick frankly hateful comments directed at Perl. I'd really like to find out why....

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RFC: Non Code Data Directories and Standards for Catalyst

2009-06-03T16:47:48Z

Introduction This blog is a proposal and request for comments regarding adopting the XDG Filesystem Hierarchy as a option for managing all the non code data composing a Catalyst application. The Problem Right now when you create a new Catalyst ...

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Dependent Type Constraints Part Two

2009-05-27T14:30:46Z

So in my attempt to add in some support for Dependent Type programming to Perl Moose programming I'm at the part where I need to integrate this into declaring your Moose based Perl objects. To recap, with a Dependent Type Constraint you can decla...

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Moose Dependent Type Constraints

2009-05-25T21:54:00Z

One thing which has come up from time to time on the Moose Type Constraint wish list is the ability to more easily define type parameters. For example, it would be great if we could very simple create an Integer type that is bound by a range. Fo...

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Darkpan => CPAN Service?

2009-05-20T16:40:26Z

With all the discussion about CPAN reliability and hair pulling over worrying what's going on in the Darkpan, I was just thinking: Why not extend CPAN for Corporate / Non Free stuff? Basically we'd extend CPAN so that authors could release source...

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Resume Writing Services

2009-05-19T13:03:55Z

Maybe a bit off-topic from Perl Programming, etc., but related to work and career in general, but was wondering what people think of all these resume services cropping up? Seems to happen every time there's an economic downturn, but I'd think tha...

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Perlsphere - the Perl blog aggregator

2009-05-12T13:01:09Z

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Top Ten Great Things About Perl Moose (Postmodern Object System)

2009-05-11T01:51:54Z

10. It's Getting Great Press! I can't remember the last time a Perl module has generated so much discussion, whether in blogs, at conferences or just in general. People who use it nearly always become advocates. Here's a few I was reading just ...

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