John Napiorkowski’s Perl Development Blog

Updated URI

2009-08-14T13:48:24Z

There's a new version of URI on CPAN. This hopefully fixed bug number 2 of my project to solve 10 Catalyst related installation errors by the end of the Northern Hemisphere summer. Just 8 more to go between now and Sept 22, 2009! I'll be workin...

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Anyone know the URI Maintainers?

2009-08-10T15:52:24Z

As part of my project to clear 10 Catalyst install bugs I wrote a tiny patch to a test support the URI cpan module. However I can't seem to reach the maintainer regarding the patch or find some method by which patches are vetted in this project. ...

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Trouble installing with CPAN?

2009-07-29T16:20:01Z

I've seen quite a few blogs recently regarding Perl programming and dependency issues. Since I a a big fan of Moose and Catalyst, you probably know I fall on the side of 'embrace dependencies'. Given so, I suggest a new side project. I will do ...

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Updates, Git and Other Stuff

2009-07-21T19:45:17Z

Thanks to everyone who gave me excellent feedback regarding the git blog. Right now I am following nothingmuch's excellent instructions which were referred to in comments, but you can quick link here. Also, catching up on some back blogs, I just...

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Migrating to git from Subversion

2009-07-16T11:25:37Z

Now that more and more of the perl programming open source projects are either on git or planning to move, I'd like to start planning a git migration for my $work repositories. It's a good time for me to do it since I basically have a new team wi...

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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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